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

𝙏𝙇;𝙙𝙧 Award-winning marketing director, global comms planner, and digital strategist with extensive influencer & vendor relations experience. Resumé contains years of comfortability pitching work, developing proposals and leading teams as well as a passion for helping folks make some sense out of this often-nonsensical working world. Oh, and I 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 the gaming space.

𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺...

✘ After 5 years of everything from social media for boutique oil & gas pipe fittings, to producing photoshoots for a timeless camping brand in National Parks across the country, to working closely with Rick Ross to sell more chicken wings and Nick Kroll to sell more candy bars… I was fortunate to get my first taste of gaming work. An old college buddy of an agency VP let us have a shot at pitching Square Enix. While I’ve been a lifelong gamer, the electricity I felt while coming up with concepts for introducing the first in a new trilogy for an IP like Tomb Raider… it was palpable. I’d chase that high for another 2 years after taking a detour into the B2B space supporting the development of a Sales & Marketing org selling data-driven marketing solutions to senior housing providers.

✘ COVID would break down geographical barriers that I had fought after staying at a state school in the middle of the country, in an area that has been completely overlooked for employee talent who might know a thing or two about gaming and esports. I was fortunate to take some contract work for Ayzenberg out of Pasadena to lead talent campaigns for Xbox Game Pass and Intel, doing everything from planning & discovery, to contracts & reporting.

✘ The next 4 years would consist of leading GTM for a gaming-based fintech startup, an Account Director role in a substantial agency, VP in pre-sale/creative strategy... even a reluctant venture into sales. I could (and still can) confidently pick an entry point for nearly ANY brand who wanted to experience the hunger of gaming audiences. I started an esports scholarship at my alma mater, wrote for industry publications, launched a merch brand and consultancy, even started a nation-wide mentorship program for college students who were interested but didn't want to make the leap into an actual esports degree program in their nascency.

After a volatile, draining, unreciprocated tenure in the space I had to look elsewhere.

Enter 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 

We are building the modern BPO. A product with clear ICPs, simple value props, and ever-expanding demand. I have the trust of leadership. We 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 make waves in the marketplace.

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