Robert Tuchman
Founder, TSE Sports & Entertainment
 
When Robert Tuchman graduated from college, Tuchman was quickly forced to abandon his dream of becoming a sports reporter. Applications to sports programs across the country were ignored and eventually he accepted a position as an investment advisor at Lehman Brothers in New York, followed by a stint Paine Webber.
Still wanting to break into the sports industry, he joined Sports Profiles after reading about them in Entrepreneur, working out of his apartment selling sports magazine advertisements. Quickly realizing that everyone to whom he sold ads wanted the perks (tickets to games or luxury trips to events) more then the ads, he decided to start a business that catered to this niche called Tuchman Sports Enterprises (TSE).
Within two years of working out of that tiny one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment, with one phone and a fax machine, his company was named to the annual Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing privately held companies and as one of the top 100 promotion agencies by Promo Magazine. He started TSE with no money and no investors and ended up selling it for millions of dollars to Premiere Global Sports. Last year TSE earned over $70 million dollars in sales as the Corporate Events division of Premiere Global Sports. Robert Tuchman now serves as President of that division, still guiding his company in its new form.
He writes a monthly column for Incentive magazine, an industry magazine for incentive and meeting planners.  He is also the author of 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live, a sports travel book. His articles have appeared in ESPN.com and Sports Business Journal.
A favourite commentator on the sports industry, you may have seen him recently discussing Michael Phelps on "Anderson Cooper 360" or the "CBS Morning News." A frequent guest on "Your World with Neil Cavuto," he has also appeared on CNN, the "CBS Morning News," BET, and has been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Entrepreneur.
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