Leadership additions to accelerate growth of PlayOn Sports, the company behind GoFan, MaxPreps and the NFHS Network
- PlayOn Sports has appointed Dave Bottoms as Chief Product Officer and Celia Poon as Chief Financial Officer.
- Bottoms joins from Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), bringing more than 25 years of product leadership across Upwork, Meta, Dropbox and Yahoo, and will lead product strategy and consumer product marketing across GoFan, MaxPreps and the NFHS Network.
- Poon joins from Eightfold AI, bringing more than two decades of finance leadership across Eightfold AI, Twitter, Zynga, Yahoo, Wag Labs and Highfive, and will oversee PlayOn's financial strategy, operations and long-term growth planning.
- The appointments support PlayOn's continued growth as the nation's leading technology company powering high school athletics, serving more than 8,500 schools and 100 million fans nationwide.
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