Education
Brown University
B.A., Organizational Behavioral Management
1989Podcasts
42:34978: What It’s Like to Found the Sports Business Networks After a Career on Wall Street With David Kotowski, Elevate Sports and Marketing [Main T4C Episode]
David Kotowski is the CEO and founder of Sports Business Networks also known as SBN, which is a network of current and former athletes, who help each other be the best they can be. He is also the founder of Elevate Sports and Marketing LLC, a consulting firm focused on..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“The Thomas Watson scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships that Brown offers … the Ivy league doesn’t offer any athletic scholarships. So it’s academic only. And I was very lucky. I had actually originally committed to attend West Point to play football and lacrosse. And I went on my last recruiting trip to Brown and I absolutely fell in love with the school. And I fell in love with the people.”
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“At Brown, I didn’t feel I belonged because I was nervous about being in the classroom with some of the smartest kids in the world. And it was one day in a class answering a question that a professor had. And I, I literally said, ‘wow, I belong here. I’m one of the smartest kids too.’ And the one thing I would have done is having a different impact is I probably would have loved to have gone and had real internships.”
Career Challenge
“One of the hardest things I had to overcome was we had other investors and we needed to make sure that those other investors were taken care of. And that’s a tough decision when you have to basically say, ‘do you want to be known as a co-conspirator or do you want to be known as the person who made things right?’ And I wanted to be known as the person who made things right. So I went on the hook for all of it and had to overcome a lot of personal financial battles to basically make sure that everyone was taken care of.”
Skills
Business Development, Leadership, Finance
Professional Interests
Sports, Coaching, Nutrition
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