Marcus "Esports" Howard

Gold Standard Gaming

Need Customers? Want to reach the 18-34 demographic daily? We can help. 

Gold Standard Gaming an Esports consulting agency at the forefront of a new era of esports and gaming. In an industry where authenticity is everything, we help brands turn their audience into a tangible community. 

Our focus is on helping our clients deliver better, more effective advertising and event programming with more engaging content and clear messaging to Millennials and Gen Z.

Cut directly through the noise by allowing your consumers to get hands-on with your brand. Provide your audience with an experience they can’t forget and they’ll do all the talking for you.

Director of Business Development

OVR Technology

OVR is a company that focuses on advancing the human experience through intersection of our most advanced technology and the art and science of olfaction. Creating new technologies to allow people to experience scent in a digital landscape. 

We're attending GDC later this month, to demo the prototype for our technology.  Let me know if you'll be there, and we'll find time for you to demo digital scents. We've launched a new program, to help innovators get early access to our tech! 10 game developers will get free dev kits, plus our team's implementation support. If your team wants to create more immersion in its games, let's chat.

Business Development Strategist

Self Employed

90% of customers polled on LinkedIn are interested in their favorite product/service brands engaging them with video games. Over 90% of employees polled on LinkedIn are interested in their employers engaging them with video games, too. Sign up for my free training, to help your brand learn how to use video games to level up its brand engagement: https://bit.ly/gamedrivenbrandgrowth

Game-Driven, Sustainable Brand Growth Coach

Gamers Home

Gamers Home empowers people to turn their passion for video games into a career. We host career webinars for gamers and streamers, so they can learn from industry experts. We also provide specialized training, so gamers and streamers can get hands-on practice in a variety of domains including voice acting, narrative design, and game marketing. Soon, we're launching a platform for premium freelancing in the gaming industry, so gamers and streamers around the world can use their vetted skills to work with awesome gaming studios. In the meantime, you can visit our Gamers Home Store for gaming-inspired comfort clothing and home decor for gamers and streamers of all ages.

I lead business development for Gamers Home, creating meaningful value for our game studios and other strategic partners. I also host Gamers Home's career insights webinars, helping our featured guests share priceless career advice.

At Gamers Home, we're on a mission to close the PayScale gap. If you work in the gaming industry, and you'd like to help us close the PayScale gap, please take a couple of minutes to share your perspective in our PayScale gap survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QNBGG96

Founder & COO

Emotional Ideas, Inc.

The future of sports, esports, and family entertainment.

Gaming & Esports Advisor

Vessel Creative Solutions

We're redefining education and workforce development with esports. We offer end-to-end services clients needs to create a truly wow factor esports gaming space or large scale arena. We recently completed the world's largest investment in the high school education esports space. Reach out to us if you have any projects or questions that we could help you with.

www.vesselxr.com

Chief Growth Officer

Johnson C. Smith University - JCSU

I'm leveraging my decade of gaming industry experience to teach the virtual course "Esports Business & Trends". I've designed a unique course that challenges students to learn esports through direct experience and professional development, rather than just memorizing specific names/dates/info for tests. My goal is that my students will have the specific tools and knowledge to successfully start their professional careers in esports when they graduate college.

Esports and Gaming Management Adjunct Instructor

UKnightedXP, Inc.

Senior Strategic Advisor

Blockchain Game Alliance

The Blockchain Game Alliance is an organization committed to promoting blockchain within the game industry. Its goal is to spread awareness about blockchain technologies and encourage adoption by highlighting their potential to foster new ways to create, publish, play, and build strong communities around games.

The BGA also provides an open forum for individuals and companies to share knowledge and collaborate, create common standards, establish best practices, and network.

Member

MetArena

Two thirds of Americans play video games, and gamers make up nearly half of the world's population. It's highly likely that you brand has gamers as employees and customers. MetArena provides your brand with the insights and technology to authentically engage your entire community, so you can use video games to achieve your brand's goals. Some great examples include selling products or services, recruiting incoming freshman to your school, or raising funds for your nonprofit.

I have 15 consecutive years of strategic/tactical experience with building startups in various industries, including gaming, news media and restaurants. I specialize in identifying exponential growth opportunities and converging trends in consumer markets. Also, I excel at creating/executing blue ocean business strategies. Growth Hacker. Innovator. Techie. Leader.

Dylan Liu's not wrong; with the state of esports, how do you justify that degree?

I MAKE ESPORTS SUSTAINABLE • Lifelong Gamer • Published Author • Professor • Featured Speaker • Indie Game Advocate • Blockchain Enthusiast • International Startup Advisor • Growth Hacker

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Layers of Reality

Director

A place where to grow all ideas around gaming, esports and digital entertainment. With a team capable of any imaginable event or esports production out there.

Squarebox_

After creating Squarebox and working on the different products to keep them designed with the idea to cover the different needs in the gaming industry, esports and digital entertainment, I leave behind the operative side of the project to focus mainly on theh content and the image inside the sector.

Institutional Relations Manager

From creating the brand and its identity to working on building different products by reading sector's needs.

- Business in Management (Esports & Gaming)
- Business in Marketing & Sponsorship (Esports & Gaming)
- Professional Programs in videogames, esports & digital entertainment
- Capsules with micro-content focused on tools 
- BOOST in Audiovisual, Game Testing & Digital Comms

Also working B2B creating ad-hoc products, bootcamps, etc.

Gestmusic (Banijay Iberia)

Manager of the pioneer 24h reality Top Gamers Academy created by Gestmusic and the talent agency VIZZ. The best talents from Spain have been part of this project that was live on Twitch with weekly galas on linear TV Neox channel where Jordi Cruz was the host.

My tasks were basically being the point of contact and authority for the players/content creators inside the reality. Also teached them weekly about esports and worked with the team to bring best names of the industry to visit the academy.

Top Gamers Academy - Manager

ESL FACEIT Group - EFG

- Leading our ESL National Championships around the world
- Overseeing other projects at ESL:

Manager of European Masters Spring and Summer editions 2019

Visit: eslgaming.com

Head of ESL National Championships

ESL España

Past events:

- ESL Masters LoL S3 - Gamepolis July 2017
- ESL Masters CSGO S1 - Madrid July 2017
- ESL Masters HS S1 - Madrid Movistar eSports Center July 2017
- ESL Masters LoL S4 - Madrid Gaming Experience October 2017
- ESL Clash of Nations by Movistar - Madrid Gaming Experience October 2017
- ESL Masters CSGO S2 - Madrid December 2017
- ESL Masters HS S2 - Madrid December 2017
- ESL Masters CS:GO S3 - Dreamhack July 2018

Next events:

- ESL Masters Rainbow Six® Siege S1
- ESL Masters CS:GO S4

Product Manager

Diario El País

With my blog Push The Ludum, I had the chance to share a lot about esports with the audience. My 20 years experience as professional player, CEO of organizations and Product Manager of ESL Masters in Spain, have been the perspective to publish content that not everyone has access too in this scene.

It was a very interesting experience when the sector was becoming main stream and some of the traditional media like El País wanted to be part of the wave.

Blog Coordination

Biomag

Working on the creation and development of products and projects in the eSports industry for BIOMAG.

Taking care of the visibility and marketing for Mars Gaming and Thunderx3.

ESports Operations Manager

Baskonia eSports

I founded Atlantis eSports end of 2014, a professional eSports club that was fusionated with Baskonia in July 2015 and fully absorved by Baskonia in January 2016. This was a huge step ahead to make the project grow, starting with two basic disciplines (CSGO and LoL) and with the Hearthstone and FIFA players from the previous period.

In this new journey I am Team Manager of the FPS (First Person Shooter) games of the club, being focused on CSGO.

Last but not least, in the last period with  Baskonia Esports, i took care of the brands supporting the organization and which actions could be done with them. The project renames to ThunderX3 Baskonia.

Team Manager

After my huge experience in the eSports industry, with all the years as professional player on my back, was time to start my own eSports Club.

The creation of this project was a great experience where to apply all my knowledge from the previous years but also where to learn on the day by day management.

The culmination of the project was the fusion with a sports club, like Baskonia, being the first one with these characteristics. Finally in January 2016 the project becomes fully part of Baskonia and its own professional management.

Events and panels: Challenge Play for Women, Esports Summit in ESADE, Premios Xataka, Zinc Shower, GameFest, Universitas Telefónica, The Esports Date, Engaging Realities, Talent Esports Canarias, Vodafone Innovation Panel, Mobile World Congress, TEDx, Barcelona Sports Hub and many others.

Recognition to my career: Challenge Play for Women in December 2016.

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