Daniel Sillman is the CEO of Relevent Sports, leading the premier privately-owned global sports and media rights organization in North America which owns and operates international football properties and negotiates international broadcast rights for top leagues and governing bodies.
In 2018, Sillman shifted Relevent Sports’ business strategy from solely an events company to a global media rights operator, selling premium football rights. This delivered record setting results. Sillman negotiated more than $2 billion in international media rights for LaLiga in North America, inking partnerships with Disney/ESPN in the US & Canada and Televisa in Mexico & Central America. The ESPN deal was the largest football media rights deal ever in the US & Canada at the time.
Since then, Sillman has led Relevent to a multitude of groundbreaking media and live event opportunities. Relevent secured UEFA’s club competitions media rights in the US in 2022 which marked the first time UEFA used a new media rights sales partner since the formation of the Champions League over 30 years ago. In 2021, LALIGA North America successfully negotiated an eight-year, $1.4 billion dollar broadcasting agreement with ESPN, granting them broadcasting rights for all LALIGA matches in the U.S. and Canada. Under Sillman, Relevent has worked hand in hand with the English Premier League on numerous match opportunities including the inaugural Premier League Summer Series which took place throughout the US in the summer of 2023. In early 2024, Sillman negotiated the acquisition for the exclusive rights to distribute English Football League match fixtures throughout North, Central and South America.
Prior to joining RSG, Sillman served as the Director of Business Development at RSE Ventures, where he was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and executing on new investments, including NextVR, Student Sports, Krossover and PureWow, amongst others. Sillman started his career founding and operating a multi-family office for professional athletes, Compass Management, which he later sold to FFO in 2015. Sillman was awarded the 2019 Sports Business Journal’s forty under 40 and Forbes’ Sports 30 under 30 for 2018.
Sillman lives in New York City, holds a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He serves on the Board of Directors of RISE and Transmit.Live and was the Chairman of the NextGen Council at the University of Michigan from 2020-2024.