Management Team

Mr. Edelman serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President, with responsibility for the company’s strategy, capital allocation, operations, and long-term growth. Appointed CEO in April 2025 after serving as President and Chief Commercial Officer, Matt architected a comprehensive corporate restructuring, strengthening the company’s balance sheet and raising more than $26 million in six months, culminating in a $20 million private placement in October 2025. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Matt drove more than 20x revenue growth, led multiple M&A transactions, oversaw hundreds of brand partnerships, supported the company’s successful NASDAQ IPO, and helped establish Super League as a defining force in the emerging category of playable media. A strategic and entrepreneurial leader, Matt’s career spans media, gaming, content, and emerging technology, with a consistent focus on long-term value creation. He has founded and operated ventures across digital marketing, the consumer internet, content production, social commerce, and generative AI. Prior to joining Super League, Matt built and scaled Endeavor’s digital operations and marketing solutions division, directing global digital initiatives across IMG’s portfolio of more than 350 live events worldwide and establishing the digital practice for the company’s experiential agency. Earlier in his career, he helped launch Marvel Studios and Marvel.com, contributing to the early development of what became one of the most successful entertainment franchises in history. Matt has served as an advisor and consultant to numerous brands and media companies, including Nike, Marvel, MTV, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Primedia and TV Guide. He currently sits on the Board of the Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, the Board of the Epilepsy Foundation Los Angeles as Vice President, is co-founder (with his wife) of the Hope for Healing Initiative, and is a member of the Western Regional Scholarship Advisory Committee for the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Mr. Haynes was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer in August 2018. From 2001 to August 2018, Mr. Haynes served as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer of Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG), an industry-leading intellectual property licensing and enforcement and technology investment company. Mr. Haynes is a party to a transition related consulting agreement with Acacia Research Corporation that expires on January 31, 2019. From 1992 to March 2001, Mr. Haynes was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, ultimately serving as a Manager in the Audit and Business Advisory Services practice, where he provided and managed full scope financial statement audit and business advisory services for public and private company clients with annual revenues up to $1 billion in a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, distribution, oil and gas, engineering, aerospace and retail. Mr. Haynes received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business/Accounting from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MBA from the University of California at Irvine Paul Merage School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive).