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

Subnation

Subnation Media Inc. is a tech-enabled enterprise that creates, owns, operates, and invests in intellectual property (IP) and technologies in collaboration with top brands.

As a trusted advisor for leading brands, we are focused on intuitive design, technology, strategic operations, and marketing to strengthen engagement, trust, and loyalty between brands and their customers.

Chief Operating Officer

Esports Trade Association

ESTA's mission is to serve and advance the business interests of the esports industry and build a sustainable community where business thrives. Communication channels include an annual conference, newsletter, and a Slack channel; all of which offer members an opportunity to collaborate for the betterment of the industry.

Board of Directors

Ultimate Media Ventures

Interim CEO

ULTIMATE is a highly specialized gaming and esports lifestyle company with services ranging from strategic consulting, content production to creating lifestyle products & event experiences. Our team has the ultimate ability to apply our extensive gaming and esports industry experience to help brands navigate the deeply nuanced global esports game community and culture. ULTIMATE features innovations and initiatives in esports & gaming lifestyle apparel, content and experiential design. 

We are a community first company.

Chief Marketing Officer & President

Player OMEGA, Inc.

Advisory Board

iconmobile group

Managing Director

As digital engineers, we focus on the convergence of products, technology and marketing.  Days are spent creating compelling consumer experiences for a number of global brands and start-ups from a myriad of industries.  Purview consists of mobile experiences & technology, marketing, client services, business development and strategy departments.

Vice President, Client Services & Business Development

Iconmobile group is one of the leading international design agencies and technology suppliers in the mobile world. We bring together design and technology, two realms that are often seen as separated. 

Founded in 2003, now part of the WPP Network
Headquarters in Berlin/Germany, with offices/representatives in Beijing, Dubai, Ingolstadt, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Paris, Seattle, Shanghai, Sydney and Toronto 
250+ employees worldwide
Many first-time innovations for the mobile market

Vice President, Business Development

VNUE Inc.

VNUE is a live entertainment music company that connects artists and fans by automating the creation of professional-grade audio and video recordings of live performances. This technology effectively brings the live venue experience directly to fans, regardless of location.

VNUE streamlines the complexities of the music ecosystem by managing the curation, rights clearance, production, distribution, and monetization of live recordings. Utilizing its proprietary Front of House mobile application, VNUE captures high-quality content and provides worldwide distribution and monetization through a suite of mobile, web, and administrative applications. This comprehensive platform enables artists and labels to seamlessly deliver and sell their live performances to fans attending shows and a global audience.

Co-Founder

Vuclip

Vuclip is the leading premium mobile video on demand service for emerging markets with more than 3 million subscribers per quarter across six different countries. Through strategic partnerships with more than 160 top studios around the world, Vuclip brings to subscribers blockbuster Hollywood and regional movies, TV shows and music videos in 20 different languages. Vuclip’s Dynamic Adaptive Transcoding provides an amazing unbuffered viewing experience to consumers across all mobile devices and on any network.

Vice President Business Development (Americas) & Content

Senior Director, Content and Carrier Partnerships

Twistbox Entertainment

Spearhead sales & marketing activities associated with Play for Prizes skill game platform across Tier 1 & Tier 2 North American / European mobile operators, OEMs and game publishers.  Sold in & created new product category on carrier decks & one of the largest cross-carrier gaming community of active unique users.  Work with best in class developers/publishers to create multiplayer competitive versions of existing "Top 25" games/applications.  2008 3GSM Innovators Award for Best Consumer Application, MCA 2008 Gold Award for Best Entertainment Application, & MCA 2008 Top 5 Nominee for Best Handset Application; 2009: titles rank in Top 100 mobile games (MMetrics).

Director, Mobile Entertainment

Sony Pictures Television Mobile

Manage day to day relationships with carriers/manufacturers/key players in the U.S.  Support licensing team to secure pre-load opportunities for mobile content.  Analyze sales data to understand marketing needs, product positioning and placement impacts.  Liaise with the marketing department to implement marketing plans to support the distribution of video products. Create & manage processes to optimize internal workflow and operations to ensure timely launches and program updates.  Advise executive management & business development teams to minimize issues as content & pre-load deals are negotiated.  Build master product schedules, budgets and launch plans for mobile video networks.  Support digital ad sales group to implement mobile video ad supported services.  Expand digital networks business to carriers. Identify new mobile video-driven agendas for content exploitation or programming (ie. mobile video advertising, promotional video distribution, new channels, new distribution)

Account Manager

- Independently develop and manage the staff responsible for bringing all mobile entertainment products to market: personalization, games, video 
- Autonomously work across all functions to ensure that a product is brought to launch -- Manage submissions team and handset team to ensure execution towards product objectives 
- Uses subject matter expertise to serve as the critical liaison between the production studio and the sales staff;  use knowledge of development, porting, and QA to advise the sales organization’s understanding of products and timing
- Independently meets with clients to a) serve as a product specialist in sales meetings (i.e., meet with clients to review details of the products and their timing) and b) take the lead with clients to work independently on bringing product to market 
- Responsible for using mobile content and entertainment industry expertise to research catalogue and market trends and recommend strategic product ideas to senior management

Product Manager

Oversee the porting/transcoding and submission of games, images, wallpapers, ringtones, screensavers, video content and other forms of media based mobile phone products based on distribution partner requirements.  Supervise relationships with partners, as needed, to ensure content is delivered to specification.  Liaise with mobile product team(s) to ensure timely delivery of assets to partners.  Manage a production schedule to track fulfillment.  Support marketing and business development groups by providing detailed information in regards to mobile product availability and distribution status with partners.  Support mobile video team by ensuring timely delivery of mobile video products to U.S. mobile operators.  Maintain database of priority handsets for each mobile operator.

Coordinator, Product Launch & Carrier Relations

Load and test mobile games and provide clear and detailed written documentation to QA Management staff. Critically evaluate game play, technical requirements based on testing scripts and game performance on multiple wireless handsets. Make lists of any defects or design issues found during testing and submit bug reports to game developers.
Performed in depth application functionality testing for all cell phone applications using both test scripts and ad hoc methods.  Created various application and carrier test scripts to aid in the testing process. Extensively used Test Track Pro to input errors found into our database.
Contributed in fashioning new employee training handbook with QA team.

QA Tester

Experienced C-Level marketing and digital technology executive with a diverse background spanning major corporations and startups. Currently serving as COO at Subnation, leveraging expertise in:

• Product, Technology, and Marketing Convergence 
• Blockchain and Gamification Strategies 
• Physical-to-Digital Consumer Journey optimization 
• Retail and Marketplace Innovation (both physical and digital)

Proven track record in marketing, sales, account management, business development, corporate strategy, and product management. Passionate technophile and early adopter, committed to driving innovation and fostering strategic partnerships across various industries.

Specialty Industries:  
CPG, Commerce, Gaming + Esports, Entertainment, Creators, Music, Automotive, Motion Picture and TV.

Skills: 
Marketing
Strategy
Business Development
Partnership Management / Development (Brand, Agency, 3rd Party)
P&L Management
Sales
Corporate Development
Budget Development & Management
Hiring, Training, Developing, Supervising and Appraising Personnel

Specializations:
Attention Economy
Consumer Experience Design Strategy
Web3
Brand Activation
Brand Strategy
Product Strategy
Content Development & Distribution
Product Marketing (Consumer & Enterprise)
Market Research & Analytics 
Marketing Communications
Media Planning
Consumer Engagement
Digital Video Networks / Multi-Channel Networks 
Digital Content - emphasis on multi-channel, cross-platform distribution & monetization
Mobile / Digital Access and Interactivity
Physical Devices/Hardware
Internet of Things (IoT) 
Connected Products

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