About Us

Jason Kyle created this unique site for professional athletes to communicate securely with other athletes as well as network with registered businesses and for businesses to be able to connect with professional athletes.

Endorsements, appearances, product offers, event invitations and job opportunities are just some of the possible connections for athletes and businesses to make through Pro Player Connect.

The site features profile pages, which highlight the athlete’s career, charity involvement, clinics, events, business ventures and biography information.

Jason Kyle

CEO and Board Member

Currently a long snapper for the New Orleans Saints, Jason has spent 15 years in the National Football League with such teams as the Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers. He is a 1994 graduate of Arizona State University with a BA in Marketing.
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Jim Lutz

President & COO

Jim has held leadership positions in multiple technology-based services organizations, with over 15 years responsibility for P&L performance in digital brand management, consulting, application software and global IT services. Prior to joining Pro Player Connect, Jim was a senior executive with echo, a digital brand management pioneer and leader in direct-to-fan online brand management. Jim has worked with many of the world’s most recognized entertainment brands, including Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Keith Urban, Janet Jackson, Rascal Flatts, Alicia Keys, and corporate clients such as Clorox Corporation, Disney, Sony Music, General Motors and the Professional Bull Riders. While at echo, Jim also launched a brand integration business that successfully competed against major national agencies. During his 30 year career, Jim has led emerging organizations to their next levels of growth, and restored profitability to under-performing businesses. He is a proven hands-on mentor and team builder and has managed global networks of staff and clients, with significant success leading the integration of business acquisitions.

Dave Graham

Site Development and Board Member

For more than a decade Dave has been building, operating and optimizing technology and e-commerce businesses. The technical expertise, strategic insight and deep vertical knowledge he brings to bear on any venture are indispensable. Dave works hands-on with entrepreneurial start-ups all the way up to Fortune 500 businesses on strategic development, investment and operating issues including: market attractiveness assessments, channel strategy, and new product development processes. Prior to co-founding Arizona Bay, Dave co-founded OpenAuto.com. He also served as Director of Operations and Vice President of Sales at Autoweb.com, one of the web’s first automotive sites. He holds a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.

Scott Kyle

Board Member

Scott is the CEO/Chief Investment Officer of Coastwise Capital Group, located in La Jolla, California.

Prior to his current position, Scott was co-founder and a principal source of early stage investment funding for The Active Network, Inc., named as one of the Top 100 fastest growing businesses in North America by Inc Magazine in 2005 and the 15th fastest growing business in North America by Deloitte & Touche (Fast 500). He served as CFO and on the Board of Directors from its founding in 1998 until 2002. Today, The Active Network, Inc. has over 800 employees worldwide.

In 1997, Scott purchased an interest in and became CEO/Publisher of Triathlon Group North America, LLC, the parent business to the world's largest triathlon publication, Triathlete Magazine. Post acquisition, he led a team that returned the magazine to profitability. Scott served on the business's Board of Directors until November 2003, when he sold his interest in the magazine.

From 1993-1997, Scott was the publisher at Dearborn Trade and the director of Dearborn's International Division. As publisher, he was responsible for managing over sixty (60) people and a budget in excess of five million dollars ($5,000,000). Scott served on the parent business's Board of Directors from 1996 until 1998, when the business was sold to the publicly traded Washington Post Business for over thirty-six million dollars ($36,000,000).

From 1989-1991, Scott was a Financial Analyst at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan/Chase) where he conducted analysis and due diligence on Fortune 1000 Businesses.

Scott holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), a general course degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard University.