LEIGH ALAN KLEINCurrently teaching both graduate and undergraduate classes in the business school at Pace University and Mount Saint Mary College. Courses taught include Sports Finance, Sports Sponsorship, Driving Marketing Performance, Management Information Systems, Business Practice, Introduction to Marketing and Introduction to Management. For the past seven years, Leigh’s students have met or worked with: The NBA, Intel, Pixellot, Tonal, Street FC, ISlide, MyPlay, Victory Creative Group, Kingston Stockade, Hudson Valley Renegades, EuroBasket, CBS Sports, Memphis Grizzlies, CoPeace, EuroBasket, Overtime, Made Hoops, Phoenix Sports, Live U, Steam and Sports, Kinexon, BallerTV and Destination ESports. Much of Leigh’s professional career was spent as C.E.O. of Five-Star Basketball Camp. He led this operation to achieve new heights in terms of domestic and international reach, athlete retention, organizational development, and partnership building. For ten years an active member of the media writing for Metro, Slam Magazine and 247 sports. He served as the Sports Editor for the Highlands Current. For three seasons he was a contributor on SNY’s Oh Yeah! and various television appearances including CBS-NY, Fox-NY and WPIX. He produced his own radio show for 7 years that was syndicated by Gow Media as part of the Yahoo Sports Radio and then SB Nation Radio programming. He created and edited 8 books. He was a member of the USA Basketball working group on Youth Development, a panelist for the 2017 Jr. NBA Leadership Conference and a panelist at the Ivy Sports Symposium.
