Second Half Network

Meet the team

Second Half Network is a student-athlete success platform: the plan, the goals, the progress, and access to leaders in the athlete’s industry. It was founded by business students who saw how little support athletes get for the part that comes after sport, and built the thing that was missing. Its founders study at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

Scott Venancio, Second Half Network

Scott Venancio

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

  • CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
  • Head of University Outreach & Relations
  • Head of Corporate Sponsorship Program
  • Co-Head, Corporate Mentorship Program
  • Spokesperson

Senior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Legal Studies in Business, minor in Entrepreneurship

Scott built the Second Half Network platform and leads the company's engineering, technology, and university outreach. He is the company's spokesperson, and the person a school, a student-athlete, or a prospective mentor hears from first. He is also head of fundraising for the Fight Against Suicide event in New Orleans, and is stepping into the ring himself.

Jack Gross, Second Half Network

Jack Gross

Founder & Chief Operating Officer

  • Head of Mentor Outreach
  • Head of Corporate Mentorship Program

Senior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Legal Studies in Business, minor in Entrepreneurship

Jack founded Second Half Network after living the transition away from college sport himself. At Tulane he has served as an EMT, a Lepage Fellow, and a bullpen catcher for the baseball team. He is helping bring the Fight Against Suicide initiative to campus.

Co-Founders
Noah Spigel, Second Half Network

Noah Spigel

Co-Founder, Director of Student-Athlete Relations

  • Lead, Internal Integration
  • Internal Operations & Marketing
  • Co-Lead, Mentor Outreach

Senior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Business Management and Legal Studies in Business

Noah leads student-athlete relations and the company's internal integration, runs internal operations and marketing, and co-leads mentor outreach. He has worked for two sports agencies and currently works in Tulane Football's recruiting department. He co-leads the company's podcast, Bullpen Talk.

Justin Kornblum, Second Half Network

Justin Kornblum

Co-Founder, Head of Legal Affairs, Compliance & Outreach

Senior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Legal Studies in Business and Marketing

Justin leads legal affairs, compliance, and outreach, and is a key part of the company's internal affairs. His focus is the legal, business, and strategic side of sport, and he plans to attend law school and build a career in sports law. He joined to reach as many student-athletes as the program can carry.

The Team
Dustin Greenwood, Second Half Network

Dustin Greenwood

Head of Business Development & Growth

  • Co-Lead, Mentor Outreach
  • Head of Internal Mentor Structuring & Athlete Experience/Development

Senior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Finance, minor in Entrepreneurial Business

Dustin leads business development and growth, co-leads mentor outreach, and heads internal mentor structuring and athlete experience and development. As a Tulane freshman he started a late-night food business with no money and grew it to nearly $30,000 in sales in a little over a year. He spent this past summer interning with the Private Bank at JPMorgan.

Peter Cook, Second Half Network

Peter Cook

Director of Student-Athlete Alumni Relations

  • Co-Director, Corporate Mentorship Program

Graduate Student, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Master of Accounting, Tax; Finance, minor in Real Estate

Peter leads student-athlete alumni relations, building and managing the network of former athletes who mentor, hire, and open doors for current ones. He is the founder of SummerRefund, an AI-assisted tax filing platform built for college students, and has negotiated its transmission partnership, incorporation, and IP from scratch. He spent this past summer interning on the asset management tax team at PwC in Boston.

Adrienne Durr, Second Half Network

Adrienne Durr

Head of Strategy & Student-Athlete Engagement

Junior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Management, on the Master of Accounting track

Adrienne leads strategy and student-athlete engagement. At Tulane she is a Resident Advisor and Peer College Advisor, a content tutor and educational assistant for Tulane Athletics, and Treasurer of the Alliance of Black Business Students. She spent this past summer as a tax intern at Norfolk Southern and joins EY as an audit intern in summer 2027.

Jack Caplan, Second Half Network

Jack Caplan

Co-Director of University Outreach

  • Co-Director, Corporate Mentorship Program
  • VP of Mentor Outreach
  • Financial Planning & Modeling

Freshman, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Jack co-directs university outreach with Scott and leads mentor outreach as VP. He also works on the company's financial planning and modeling.

Aiden Stokes, Second Half Network

Aiden Stokes

Head of Product Quality

  • Mentor Outreach
  • Financial Planning & Modeling

Freshman, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Aiden leads product quality. He walks the platform end to end before anything ships, finds the bugs, and writes the critiques and edits that follow. He also works on mentor outreach and on the company's financial planning and modeling.

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