Fan Club Network FanWide Adds Sports Blockchain Expert Ben Godfrey as a Strategic Advisor

SEATTLE, Nov. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FanWide (http://www.FanWide.com), the digital platform dedicated to helping out-of-market sports fans find a local fan club or game watch party, has added Ben Godfrey to its team as a strategic advisor. Since launching in 2016, Seattle-based FanWide has promoted over 850,000 events for almost 12,500 fan clubs nationwide. FanWide has developed the world's largest fan club database for over 1,500 pro and college teams in the NFL, NCAA Football, NBA, NCAA Basketball, MLB, NHL, professional soccer, esports and dozens of other leagues. In September 2018, FanWide announced a strategic partnership with sports blockchain ecosystem FanChain (http://www.fanchain.com), and soon will reward fans with the FANZ token whenever they attend an event which they can spend on their favorite team's apparel, memorabilia, game tickets and more.

Ben Godfrey is the Founder and General Partner at SportVEST (https://sportvest.io), a tokenized sports Venture Capital Fund on the blockchain. SportVEST focuses on detailed analysis and investment into sports companies at the intersection of blockchain and is committed to creating sports as a new asset class. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has built a startup from concept through to exit and understands the hurdles business owners face. Extremely knowledgeable in multiple areas of sports, an early adopter of tokenization, blockchain and a crypto investor, Ben also acts as an advisor, speaker and mentor.

"FanWide is one of the few businesses out there that is well thought out and has an executable long-term strategy. As a venture capital organization, we study hundreds of businesses in the sports space but very few have the ability to adapt to the many changes that we will see over the coming years. I believe FanWide offers something unique in the marketplace that all sports fans will welcome. Deployment of the FanChain technology, building key partnerships, and scaling the business will allow them to capture and retain a large market share making the outlook of the business extremely healthy," said Ben Godfrey. "Using FanChain's FANZ token is a great business decision with both companies having many synergies. This allows FanWide to expand their network and increase brand awareness while saving considerable costs by issuing their own token. Tokenizing the FanWide model will allow them to reward their users with branded tokens and scale their business quicker, increasing revenue streams and growing their user base."

FanWide is a free website and app that connects sports fans from every team in any city through in-person meetups organized by local fan clubs. In addition to promoting existing in-person game watch parties using the world's largest database of sports fan clubs, FanWide also develops new communities at over 10,000 sports bars nationwide, while measuring and reporting Out-of-Home (OOH) TV viewership from these locations.

"FanWide is excited to welcome Ben to the team as our blockchain advisor," said Symon Perriman, President and Founder of FanWide. "As one of the sports industry's leading tokenization experts, Ben has immediately added value to help us define our blockchain strategy, refine our token economics, and establish new partnerships."

FanWide encourages sports leagues, teams, brands, and accredited investors to contact the company if they are also interested in learning more about the business. FanWide was recently named "the most disruptive technology likely to shape the future of basketball" by Spalding, Puma, Naismith Committee, the LA Dodgers Innovation Lab, and others leading names in sports and technology.

For more information on FanWide, please visit http://www.FanWide.com.

About FanWide
FanWide (http://www.FanWide.com) is a free website and app that helps sports fans find the closest fan club or game watch party for any team in any city, while rewarding the fans for engaging with each other and sponsors. FanWide manages the world's largest database of sports fan clubs, while measuring out-of-home TV viewership. FanWide also provides services for fan clubs and alumni associations, pro and college teams, sports sponsors, athletes, influencers, and TV broadcasters.

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