THE TEAM

Rovegno brings 20+ years of dynamic integrated marketing and brand communication experience on both client and agency sides creating award-winning promotions, campaigns, sponsorships, talent endorsements, digital/social efforts, and full-scale experiential initiatives for such brands as ESPN, NFL, FOX, NBC, AT&T, Verizon, ABC/Disney and more. He was named 2019 LA Business Journal's Most Influential Marketer, CableFax Top Marketer Award, ProMax and 12-time MARK Award winner.

Rovegno has worked with hundreds of athletes, leagues, and teams including Drew Brees, Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky, Ronnie Lott, Tony Romo, James Worthy, and more. Randy has represented marketing interests for the RB Club (featuring a dozen NFL legends including Barry Sanders, Marcus Allen, Eric Dickerson), MLB greats Steve Garvey, Rollie Fingers, MLS HOFer Kevin Hartman, and UFC champion Lyoto Machida.

As a Professor at Cal Poly, Randy brings his knowledge and real-world sports cases studies to the classroom at many schools including University of Colorado Denver (Sports Marketing), El Camino College (Sports Marketing) , and Rio Hondo (Business/Marketing) as well as a dozen years lecturing at Long Beach State, Chico State, USC and more.

Stephen Teglas, an Alumni Achievement Award winner, is a former visionary with The Walt Disney Co. and his significant contributions to a pioneering partnership between the company and universities.

Teglas joined the Disney Store in 1993. He became vice president/general manager of Fashion & Home of Disney Consumer Products, North America, in 2008. In this role, Teglas has pioneered strategy relating to Disney’s licensed products and has also has been involved in ASU’s InnovationSpace program, creating a Disney sponsorship in which students from design, engineering and business work with Disney representatives to develop product and service concepts for children in the areas of health and sustainability.

Stephen now heads up RECUR, the new technology company that designs and develops on-chain branded experiences allowing fans to buy, collect, and re-sell digital products and collectibles (NFTs). Teglas is an iconic executive in the licensing, sponsorship and marketing world and looks forward to bringing his expertise to the Athlete Lab.

Andy Miller oversees corporate development and partnerships for the Athlete Lab. Miller is a strategic minded sales executive with management, business development, marketing partnership, corporate sponsorship, media sales, broadcast, digital, social, mobile, live streaming, video content, programmatic, and experiential experience. His proven track record of generating revenue selling high impact cross-platform partnership deals with premium brands and agency decision makers within the sports & entertainment marketplace is unsurpassed.

Andy has worked with iconic sports properties including the NFL, NBC and the Olympics, IMG, Fox Sports and more.  His ability to create valuable partnerships with brands makes him a key member of the Athlete Lab team.  Andy works on the corporate partnership side ensuring that brands and organizations are able to team up and leverage NIL opportunities with our roster of top student-athletes.