Marcus "Esports" Howard

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.

Chief Growth Officer

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

Marcus Howard

Alfa5

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.

taplio

The Battle

Marcus Howard

Ana Oliveras Daví

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?