Company Building Projects

CBP #1: TRANSFORMING RIO DE JANEIRO (CITY AND STATE) INTO “THE GLOBAL CAPITAL” FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT (R&D&D) FOR THE GRAND CHALLENGES INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION REMEDIATION (AIR, SEA AND LAND), POVERTY ALLEVIATION, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE BIO-BELT (THE REGION BETWEEN THE TROPICS OF CANCER AND CAPRICORN, WHICH INCLUDES THE PLANET’S RAINFORESTS) AND STARTUPS FOCUSED ON THE GRAND CHALLENGES FACING HUMANITY, OTHER SPECIES AND THE PLANET

INVESTMENT SECTORS: DIGITAL, LIFE SCIENCES, GREENTECH & SOCIAL INNOVATION

The model for CBP #1 in Rio, is being borrowed and adapted from several venues. Those venues are (i) Silicon Valley, (ii) Singapore’s One North Project (i.e., Biopolis, Fusionopolis and Mediapolis), (iii) China’s Shenzhen and their notion of National Economic and Technological Development Zones, and (iv) New York City’s use of New York State’s Urban Development Corporation (UDC) legislation for sustainable economic development in projects like: the revitalization of the 42nd Street corridor in Manhattan; the creation of downtown Brooklyn as NYC’s “Third Financial District;” the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Zone; and the Cornell Tech science and technology research project on Roosevelt Island.

CBP #2: BRAZILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN GREEN TRANSPORTATION, GREEN ENERGY AND URBAN DESIGN & LIVING, THE GREENING OF FAVELAS/SHANTYTOWNS

INVESTMENT SECTOR: GREENTECH + SOCIAL INNOVATION

CBP #3: FOOTBALL IN THE USA: A ROLL-UP AND CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to
unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand.
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than
governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of
discrimination.” –– Nelson Mandela

INVESTMENT SECTORS: DIGITAL + SOCIAL INNOVATION (SPORTS, CULTURE, COMMUNITY-BUILDING & ENTERTAINMENT)

The first stage of CBP #3 is a book entitled, The Football Manifesto and Club Handbook: Bringing the Beautiful Game to the People and Making the USA #1 in the World (TFM), which deconstructs not only the motivation behind the formation and ongoing management of The United States Soccer Federation (“U.S. Soccer”), Major League Soccer, and MLS’s revenue generating arm Soccer United Marketing (hereinafter “MLS/SUM”), but most importantly TFM dimensions and places parameters around the regional and global upside potential of a restructured football (soccer) pyramid in the USA, the Americas and globally, and identifies the tools to realize that upside potential.

The second stage of CBP #3 can be found in our GO FUND ME campaign, and in a recent Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin podcast entitled “Mapping a U.S. Men’s Soccer Revolution.”