Tim Hayden

Co-Founder & Partner

2024 - Current

Xvisory Partners is an independent consulting firm that works with teams, leagues, venue operations, and media properties as well as brands, influencers and content providers. Our competitive advantage is simple: Our advisors are currently practicing leaders in the sports and esports industries that have excelled in each of their areas of discipline. From helping to implement new business models and best practices in sponsorship, media rights and digital strategy to pioneering new opportunities in betting, esports, technology and fan data, our advisors continue to accelerate their own sports properties which brings an unfair advantage to our clients at Xvisory Partners.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

2021

Xvisory believes that together, good people can do great things when given the platform to do it. To leaders in and around sports and esports, Xvisory is the independent global advisory community that drives value for its members through personalized access to learn, solve, and network. We seek to leverage the collective to achieve the amazing!

Co-Founder & General Partner

2021

Stadia Ventures is a sports- and esports-focused venture firm with a sports business accelerator. We create an ecosystem for sports innovation growth by leveraging our team’s core strengths – education, investment and industry expertise. Our Stadia Accelerator helps established sports startups get to the next level through the combination of a $100K equity investment, intensive mentoring, and connecting founders to the top sports business executives around the world. It's been 8 years since we've started Stadia. We have 78 companies in our portfolio, and we have 13 exits (to groups like Ticketmaster, FLIR Systems, Blast Motion, Teamworks, Stack Sports, and Alpha Esports). Our portfolio companies have gone on to raise over $200M. We have operations in St. Louis, MO, Frisco, TX, and The Hague, Netherlands.

Co-Founder & Managing Director

2015 - 2021

Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship

2011 - 2018

SLU's Center for Entrepreneurship is a cross-campus, cross-community resource for entrepreneurs and private business owners that is part of the #7 ranked Entrepreneurship program in the nation. Major initiatives of the Center include the Institute for Private Business (community peer mentoring group for the region's largest privately and family owned businesses), the Billiken Angel Network (40+ angels looking to invest in startups at any stage and any industry), the Pure Idea Generator Challenge (college idea pitch competition), the 'Real' Elevator Pitch competition (college elevator pitch competition in Missouri's tallest building), the Pitch & Catch competition (college investor pitch deck competition from the pitcher's mound at Busch Stadium/St. Louis Cardinals stadium), the Allsup Summer Entrepreneurship Academy (week-long introduction to Entrepreneurship for high school students), the Idea Dash competition (high school idea pitch at City Museum), the Teen Escalator competition (high school elevator pitch competition at the Enterprise Center/St. Louis Blues arena), the Angels In The Outfield (high school investor pitch deck competition at Busch Stadium/St. Louis Cardinals stadium), and the Chasing the Sun high school global celebration. Founded in 1987, SLU's Center for Entrepreneurship was the 23rd Center ever created in the nation and is recognized as a Center of Excellence by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

Senior Adjunct Professor - Sports Business

2010 - 2018

I teach the Intro to Sports Business class at St. Louis University. My co-teacher (Adam Jacobs - St. Louis Rams) and I show the students the various aspects of working in sports business and immerse them in semester-long projects. We are lucky to have senior executives from sports and business who participate in speaking, judging and mentoring the students. This gives the students real-world knowledge and tremendous networking opportunities.

Senior Adjunct Professor - Entrepreneurship

2004 - 2018

I teach several Entrepreneurship classes at St. Louis University, to Undergrads and Masters students. The program has been nationally ranked in the top 20 Entrepreneurship programs for over 10 years. In 2016, we are ranked #7 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and we are proud to count several current, student businesses that have received investment by Warren Buffet and the "Sharks" on the TV show Shark Tank. In my Intro to Entrepreneurship class, students learn about Entrepreneurship and networking while interacting with numerous successful entrepreneurs through the Guest Speaker Series. In my Advanced Business Planning class, students develop comprehensive Business Plans that are graded by judges in their industry. Judges include Investors, Customers, Partners, and Community Leaders, and the grading system is simply - if a judge is willing to sign on a dotted-line, then the student receives an 'A.' The grade drops with the level of interest dropping.

Managing Director

2010 - 2015

I founded The Stadia Group to provide corporate counsel and strategic advice to a broad range of clients from private and Fortune 500 companies to sports teams and sponsors. We develop world-class analysis, pragmatic solutions, a comprehensive range of services, and global capabilities to produce practical, high-impact results – quickly.

Partner + Advisor

2011 - 2014

FanzLive is the community that enables all fans to become citizen journalists through creation, sharing and cataloging their live experiences in an open network environment.

Chief Marketing Officer

2009 - 2010

Athletic Club of St. Louis is a professional soccer investment and development group that created AC St. Louis (NASL), Saint Louis Athletica (WPS), Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park, and other sports properties. Helped create several professional sports teams and a professional soccer league while directing the teams in charge of marketing, social media, communications/PR, sponsorship, ticket sales, merchandise sales, advertising, promotions, IT, community outreach and new business opportunities.

Founder & CEO

2003 - 2009

I founded Vivid Sky to create mobile application for sports fans anywhere in the world. Whether you are in a stadium or stationed in another country, you can access unlimited content (instant replays, stats, info-graphics, order concessions, etc.) in real time through the SkyBOX Personal Sports Network.

Sales and Marketing

2001 - 2003

Marketing group that specialized in web/mobile design and development, which is where I learned about emerging technologies.

Sales and Marketing

1997 - 2001

A video and new media production/post-production group, and my area was sports marketing.