Chris Rodman

At Monterosa we love combining gaming with sports and broadcast to generate new experiences and business models. The world’s biggest sport, media and consumer brands are adopting Monterosa / Interaction Cloud™ to consolidate interactive engagement under one roof, generating measurable impact via first-party data, sign-up, sales and audience sentiment. They include ITV, EA SPORTS, Paramount, Liverpool Football Club and Formula E.

Candy is a new digital asset content company building an innovative NFT ecosystem that will change how fans and collectors engage with their favorite sports, music, art, and cultural icons. We have a cutting-edge design team leading a creative studio that collaborates with athletes, artists, and content owners to bring new NFT projects to life. In addition, our unique virtual storefront will provide fans and collectors the opportunity to explore and purchase officially licensed digital collectibles and trade them on a secure secondary marketplace. Candy is partnering with leading minds in blockchain to develop a new purpose-built NFT ecosystem connected to Ethereum. Our blockchain architecture is 99% more efficient than current Proof of Work blockchain networks, providing a secure, scalable, and sustainable solution for creators and content owners. Our Investors and Partners: Galaxy Digital is a leading player in the digital asset space, offering cutting-edge investment banking, trading, and asset management services that revolutionize how people invest in digital assets. ConsenSys Mesh is a game-changing platform that empowers developers to build decentralized applications and solutions on the Ether The Palm network is an Ethereum-compatible sidechain, built to serve as the foundation of a new scalable and sustainable ecosystem for NFTs. It is designed by, and for, Ethereum developers and features low gas costs and fast transaction finality.

Made up of 8 independent brands, Nerdy Banana specialises in print on demand, e-commerce and brand building. With over 5 years under our belt, our young passionate team are looking to the future with confidence. Our story began in early 2012 when 19-year-old founder Charlie Rodman, took a gap year after college to set up a personalised clothing business Doodletogs from his parents home. After a quick 3-month stint the following year at Leeds University, Charlie decided to drop out to focus on the business. Working from his parents home over the next 2 years, the business gained its first employee and outgrew the spare bedroom. Since then the business has worked with global brands such as Discovery Channel, ITV, Youtube and Google to provide printed merchandise and develop e-commerce solutions. Fundraising platform Teefunder was also launched to help teams and charities raise money through the sale of custom t-shirts. Seeing a market and demand for a range of personalised products, Supersocks was born, with the goal to make socks and underwear fun. Soon followed Dogsy, unique gifts for dogs and owners and thereafter Wrapsy, a one-stop solution for custom wrapping paper. Nerdy Banana was created in 2018 to house our family of companies. Currently employing a team of over 20, the business recently relocated to Birmingham, UK with our international offices based in Los Angeles, USA

At Monterosa we love combining gaming with sports and broadcast to generate new experiences and business models. The world’s biggest sport, media and consumer brands are adopting Monterosa / Interaction Cloud™ to consolidate interactive engagement under one roof, generating measurable impact via first-party data, sign-up, sales and audience sentiment. They include ITV, EA SPORTS, Paramount, Liverpool Football Club and Formula E.

Candy is a new digital asset content company building an innovative NFT ecosystem that will change how fans and collectors engage with their favorite sports, music, art, and cultural icons. We have a cutting-edge design team leading a creative studio that collaborates with athletes, artists, and content owners to bring new NFT projects to life. In addition, our unique virtual storefront will provide fans and collectors the opportunity to explore and purchase officially licensed digital collectibles and trade them on a secure secondary marketplace. Candy is partnering with leading minds in blockchain to develop a new purpose-built NFT ecosystem connected to Ethereum. Our blockchain architecture is 99% more efficient than current Proof of Work blockchain networks, providing a secure, scalable, and sustainable solution for creators and content owners. Our Investors and Partners: Galaxy Digital is a leading player in the digital asset space, offering cutting-edge investment banking, trading, and asset management services that revolutionize how people invest in digital assets. ConsenSys Mesh is a game-changing platform that empowers developers to build decentralized applications and solutions on the Ether The Palm network is an Ethereum-compatible sidechain, built to serve as the foundation of a new scalable and sustainable ecosystem for NFTs. It is designed by, and for, Ethereum developers and features low gas costs and fast transaction finality.

Made up of 8 independent brands, Nerdy Banana specialises in print on demand, e-commerce and brand building. With over 5 years under our belt, our young passionate team are looking to the future with confidence. Our story began in early 2012 when 19-year-old founder Charlie Rodman, took a gap year after college to set up a personalised clothing business Doodletogs from his parents home. After a quick 3-month stint the following year at Leeds University, Charlie decided to drop out to focus on the business. Working from his parents home over the next 2 years, the business gained its first employee and outgrew the spare bedroom. Since then the business has worked with global brands such as Discovery Channel, ITV, Youtube and Google to provide printed merchandise and develop e-commerce solutions. Fundraising platform Teefunder was also launched to help teams and charities raise money through the sale of custom t-shirts. Seeing a market and demand for a range of personalised products, Supersocks was born, with the goal to make socks and underwear fun. Soon followed Dogsy, unique gifts for dogs and owners and thereafter Wrapsy, a one-stop solution for custom wrapping paper. Nerdy Banana was created in 2018 to house our family of companies. Currently employing a team of over 20, the business recently relocated to Birmingham, UK with our international offices based in Los Angeles, USA

The Topps Company, Inc. is the iconic, preeminent leader in physical and digital collectibles. Acquired by Fanatics Collectibles in January 2022, Topps is the companys cornerstone licensed trading card brand. Founded in 1938, The Topps Company started in confections with "Topps Gum" (later introducing Bazooka Bubble Gum) and released its first trading card set in 1950. Today, the company produces trading cards and collectibles, custom cards, memorabilia, sticker album collections and more related to iconic and pop culture brands such as Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, Star Wars, Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League, World Wrestling Entertainment and Garbage Pail Kids. Fanatics Collectibles has also secured long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several additional sports properties, including NBA, NBPA and NFLPA, in the coming years. Topps’ Digital Apps division produces, develops and operates mobile applications that give you access to an exclusive digital card collection at your fingertips that are sold via the Apple and Google app stores under the brand names BUNT, KICK, NHL SKATE, Star Wars Card Trader, The Walking Dead Universe Collect, WWE SLAM, Marvel Collect! and Disney Collect! https://play.toppsapps.com/. Headquartered in New York City, Topps maintains offices in several countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India and Brazil.