Draft:Rob Prazmark

Rob Prazmark is an American Olympic consultant, known as the founder and CEO of 21 Sports and Entertainment Marketing Group. He is widely recognized in the sports marketing and event industry for his involvement in Olympic marketing and global sports sponsorship.

Early life and education
Prazmark spent his youth in San Jose California and the majority of this adult life in Greenwich, CT. He pursued his higher education at Canisius College in Upstate New York, where he received a Bachelors degree in business administration and management in 1975.

Career
Prazmark started his career by working at NBC and ABC. In 1985, he started working as the Vice President of Olympic Sales at ISL, a sports management and marketing company. While working at ISL he helped in development of The Olympic Programme (TOP) and sold this programme till 1996. In 1991, Rob founded 21 Sports & Entertainment Marketing Group and later became its CEO.

In 1997, he started working as President of Olympic sales and marketing at IMG. He left IMG for an executive vice presidency at Wasserman Media in July of 2006. In 2007, Prazmark left Wasserman to focus on his own company, 21 sports.

He has also been involved in marketing events such as the FIFA World Cup, including the 1994 World Cup hosted in the United States,  Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Olympic Committee and many others.

Prazmark has brokered over $3.5 billion in sponsorships from renowned organizations such as Liberty Mutual Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen and John Hancock, among others.

Publications
In 2023, he authored an autobiography named "The Olympics Don't Take American Express".