Meet our team
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Paul Gipkhin
Co-founder
Paul is from St. Louis, Missouri, and has a background in financial services. Previously, Paul worked in Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) investment banking at Wells Fargo. Prior to that, he spent a year at 10X Capital (investor in better.com, DraftKings, Robinhood, 23andMe, Palantir, Udemy, and Wish) facilitating dozens of tech venture capital transactions as well as supporting the SPAC sponsorship and advisory team. Selected transaction experience includes REE Automotive's $3.1B (pre-money) merger with 10X Venture Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: REE). Paul is also a senior at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business studying Finance and Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation with a minor in Spanish.
Anthony Leal
Co-founder
Anthony is originally from Bloomington, Indiana. He is a Division 1 Men’s Basketball Player for Indiana University. At IU, he is a junior studying Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation. He is also a licensed real estate agent.
Anthony has had success performing NIL deals with companies such as Kroger, State Farm, Tire Discounters, and the City of Bloomington. Using what he learned from his own struggles initially finding deals, he plans on applying this knowledge to curate the best possible experience for athletes in similar positions through HiFive’s NIL marketplace.
Anthony’s role in HiFive is managing and developing relationships on the athlete side of our marketplace. Because he is currently an athlete and experiencing the pain athletes deal with in terms of finding deals, Anthony is able to leverage his status and relationships with athletes and athletic departments. His credibility from this perspective helps to develop trust and interest from athletes and athletic departments that may be otherwise skeptical of utilizing our service.