Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. He joined Microsoft in 1986 and spent the next ten years as one of the early developers of Excel and Word. In 1996 he left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published more than 100 games including more than a dozen million+ sellers, co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the video game industry.

In 2004, Ed retired as Microsoft Vice President and began working as a board member and advisor with entrepreneurs in the video game business as well as serving on the board of many non-profit organizations including the Pacific Science Center and the Smithsonian Art Museum.

The National Football League Alumni Association is an organization committed to the goal of better serving, informing and assisting all retired players in their post NFL lives. Membership includes thousands of retired players, coaches, front office executives, spouses, cheerleaders, and avid fans. For more than 50 years, NFL Alumni also has carried a traditional mission of “Caring for Kids” across the country. Player alumni give back in their local communities by raising funds for youth-related charities through their 35 regional chapters as NFL Alumni Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, please visit www.nflalumni.org

Timothy C. Busch has 37 years of experience in Broadcast operations, executive leadership, and acquisitions, of which he spent the last 21 years with Nexstar Media Inc. He was appointed President of Nexstar Media Inc. in January 2017 and up until his retirement from Nexstar on June 1, 2021 oversaw its Broadcasting operations portfolio. Growing both organically and through two major acquisitions (Media General, Inc. in 2017 and Tribune Media Company in 2019), Nexstar became the largest television station ownership group in the United States, operating, programming, and providing sales and other services to 199 television stations and related digital multicast signals reaching 116 markets or approximately 68% of all U.S. television households. Busch’s division portfolio included affiliations of NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, MyNetworkTV and The CW. Over the past 5 years, gross revenues grew from $610M (2015) to $2.1B(2020) with over 10,000 broadcasting employees. Busch and his team delivered consistent revenue gains and sales/profitability exceeding Board projections. Busch has agreed to remain as a consultant to Nexstar Media Inc. through the end of 2022.