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James Roche
Managing Partner at Greot Ventures
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James Roche
Managing Partner at Greot Ventures
Greater Boston
Overview
James Roche is the Founder of Vanta, where he serves as the Chief Commercial Officer, leading strategic initiatives and stakeholder engagement. With a background as a former professional athlete and experience in executive management, he brings a unique blend of leadership skills to drive growth and success in the esports and gaming sectors.
Roche's career highlights include founding Vanta, a successful venture in the gaming industry, and his experience as a professional baseball player with the New York Mets, showcasing his ability to excel in competitive environments and drive strategic growth in various industries.
Work Experience
Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer
2020 - Current
Digital sports have exploded, but infrastructure is leagues behind traditional sports. Vanta’s technology platform provides the infrastructure that turns digital sports into an organized sport, supercharging digital sports for enterprises, schools, and gamers.
Vanta is an e-sports digital platform providing competitive e-sports leagues, expert coaching, and programming to kids.
Raised $3,599,998.00 from Scout Ventures, GTMfund, Paul Lasiuk, The Rifkin Family Office, Veteran Ventures Capital, The Hart Family Office, Trajectory Capital Partners, J-Ventures, Blue Ventures and Trajectory Ventures.
Managing Partner
2020
Grit meets growth. Investing in great opportunities.
Angel Squad
2021
Investing in some awesome companies alongside Hustle Fund! Highly recommend this program for interested in angel investing (or currently an angel investor).
Management Consultant
2019 - 2021
Slalom is a global, modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformations. We help clients envision their future and develop solutions to get there, analyze and architect modern technology solutions, and deliver impactful change with our clients.
Slalom Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm that designs and builds strategies and systems to help its clients
Raised $1,690,036.00.
Player Development
2017 - 2019
Accelerating the development of minor league players and coaches by leveraging a fusion of people-centric, process-oriented, and data-driven approach, as well as operating cross-functionally across player development, scouting, and anlaytics departments.
Vice President
2014 - 2017
CLUB 9 SPORTS, LLC. is a boutique investment bank focused on the global sports industry, specializing in capital raising services, including buy-side and sell-side M&A. Responsible for sourcing and executing M&A advisory, capital raising and consulting transactions with a focus on sports and media. Managed multiple aspects of deal flow including analysis, negotiation, preparing key transaction related materials, and due diligence. Deal size ranged from $5 million to $1.2 billion.
CLUB 9 SPORTS advises, operates, and consults in the sports industry.
Professional Baseball Player
2012 - 2014
Minor League Baseball player N.Y Mets organization
New York Mets is a national baseball team that competes in major league baseball as a member of the national league east division.
Assistant Athletic Director
2012 - 2013
Baseball Coach
2012 - 2013
Athletic Event Coordinator
2011 - 2012
Professional Baseball Player
2012 - 2012
Member of the Newark Bears, part of the Can-AM Baseball League, a professional, independent baseball league located in the Northeast United States and Canada.