ABOUT US - Locker Room Sports

ABOUT LRS SPORTS

Locker Room Sports (LRS) isn’t just another platform—it’s a game-changer in the world of amateur sports. Founded to empower athletes, coaches, and organizations, LRS is the first-of-its-kind solution, built to help you thrive in the rapidly shifting landscape of NIL, transfer portals, and media rights. With LRS, athletes take control, build their brand, own their content, and secure their future. We are redefining what it means to compete and succeed in sports.

Why LRS?

The amateur athletics landscape is evolving fast, and only the proactive will win. At LRS, we don’t just help athletes and organizations keep up with these changes—we empower them to stay ahead and thrive:

Own your brand: LRS is the only platform that puts full control of your content in your hands, letting athletes own and profit from their digital presence with trading cards, digital portfolios, and more.
Stay ahead: Our cutting-edge platform harnesses AI and the latest digital tools to open new doors for athletes, coaches, and organizations. We’re not following trends—we’re setting them.
Safeguard your future: LRS ensures athletes and guardians control their content and avoid giving away future income unknowingly. With us, you protect your brand and your financial future.

Our Vision

LRS bridges the gap between the traditional and the future of sports. In an era of constant change, we equip athletes, teams, and clubs with the tools to rise above the noise. Whether you’re a high school hopeful or a future pro, LRS gives you the power to shape your story, strengthen your brand, and profit from your performance on and off the field. We’re not just keeping up with the changes—we’re leading the way.

Our Leadership

LRS is backed by a team of industry experts who don’t just understand the challenges of modern sports—they’re at the forefront of solving them. With deep experience in sports management, digital innovation, and technology, our leadership team has made LRS the premier platform for athletes and organizations looking to take control of their futures.

Todd Kuta

President

Mitchell Lawrie

COO

Otto Shragal

Partner

Jeff Yearous

Partner

Aman Johar

Partner

TODD - BIO

Todd is a lifelong avid sports enthusiast from athlete, coach, to spectator. A multi-sport collegiate athlete who has brought 2 successful sport focused companies to market. He now serves as a daddy sports uber for his two children. He enjoys coaching and watching them grow and succeed. Their journeys with their teams, lessons, and competitors serve as focus groups for LRS. He utilizes his daily experience with his young athletes to make informed decisions with respect to LRS is to provide tools which empower and protect athletes in the new amateur athletic landscape. These tools are centered on athletes owning their content and building their brand via a fun experience and safe community of athletic peers and sports lovers.

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Todd Kuta is the President/CEO of Locker Room Sports. Mr. Kuta led the development of the LRS business model and service offerings, established a robust intellectual property strategy with a deep well of IP filings, secured funding, and recruited a world-class team of executives and advisors to bring his vision to the world. Todd passionately drives the execution of his vision to deliver and extend the LRS suite of products and services to educate and empower young athletes and their parents with tools to deliver maximum opportunities in the rapidly evolving world of amateur athletics.

Prior to founding LRS, Mr. Kuta spent 15 years performing going-concern valuations, specializing in the retail petroleum and QSR industries. Working on behalf of corporations such as BP, Equilon Enterprises, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Starbucks, KFC, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Dairy Queen as well as their franchisees and lending institutions, he evaluated the business and financial operations of thousands of retail and wholesale businesses.

A serial entrepreneur at heart, in 1999 Mr. Kuta brought his visionary skills to golf by developing the world’s first personal GPS systemand founding GolfLogix. His system launched the industry race for distance measuring devices, statistical analysis, and club customization driven by those statistics for the lay golfer. In 2005, GolfLogix developed proprietary software and maps for a Garmin co-branded handheld GPS device featured at thousands of prestigious golf courses across the globe. GolfLogix remains the only OEM product ever produced by Garmin. According to a 2019 Golf Datatech study, 90% of serious golfers use a distance device every time they play. A 2018 Golf Datatech report indicated that 2/3 of serious golfers now use this statistical analysis to be custom fitted for their clubs. The Post Game Printout preceded the PGA Tours ShotLink by years and quickly became a prized memory for everyday golfers at countless courses. So much so that the GolfLogix system was welcomed by both the PGA and Champions Tour to provide mementos for the amateurs participating in the charity events surrounding their tour stops. The GolfLogix Community provided interactivity through its online social networking, virtual competition, and ability to build and share information with golfers’ personal networks. GolfLogix is currently used on five continents and remains the industry leader in distance measuring.

Prior to GolfLogix, Todd developed and managed the Internal Sales force for Arizona’s 1st Common Language publicly traded company, PCI. After the IPO, he grew the account base from 7,000 to 15,000 domestic accounts in less than two years via his implementation of a process mapping project, installation of a multinational CRM program, and leadership of the in-house sales representatives.

Mr. Kuta’s pioneering spirit started early when in 1994-95 he conceptualized and brought to market the world’s 1st online athletic scouting service, Athlete’s Edge. The solution employed a selectively quarriable metadata database accessed via the new World Wide Web, which became the Internet. The site featured personal profiles of potential college athletes, including their physical characteristics, athletic accomplishments and statistics, game films, media stories, athletic schedules, and other demographic information. College coaches from every intercollegiate sport utilized the cutting-edge search capabilities to find athletes whose profiles met the wants and needs of their recruiting efforts in a quick, efficient, and cost-effective manner. The “My Team” featureafforded athletes the ability to share their profile with people of their choosing while also sending push information about new news, media, video, or statistical changes. At its zenith, 1,700 of the 2,200 institutions which participate at some level of intercollegiate sports utilized the service. The platform that Athletes Edge introduced soon gave rise to a plethora of copycat services such as Rivals, Scouts, and NCSA. The personal profile concepts were soon emulated by MySpace, Friendster, and later Facebook. The athletic scouting industry currently generates billions of dollars in annual revenue in the sports-crazed United States.

Mr. Kuta earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from Missouri Western State University. Todd holds multiple US patents. He has held a Certified General Appraiser license in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan and has performed going concern valuations in more than 30 states.

MITCH - BIO

Mitch spent years following his daughter around the western United States chasing the best competition available in club volleyball. His hard-earned experience includes an in depth understanding of “Travel/Club” ball as a family lifestyle. From organizing trips, lodging and team meals to creating and sharing video content he has been there, done that. He utilizes his innate analytical preparation skills to scan the horizon for potential issues, bottlenecks, improvements, and opportunities in an effort to allow athletes to focus on what they should focus on, the game.

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Mr. Lawrie is an accomplished executive, transformation strategist, and operations leader with a global track record of accomplishments. In his prior role at the U.S. Department of Defense, Mitchell led the Directorate for Transformation & Reform, reporting to the Chief Management Officer, the 3rd highest-ranked civilian reporting to both the Deputy Secretary and Secretary of Defense. With over 3 million service members and civilians, official reform benefits reported to Congress exceeded $5.4B in FY18 and $6.5B in FY19.

Prior to the DoD, Mr. Lawrie was the Vice President of Strategic Transformation & Agile PMO for Vixxo, Inc. (~$1B), where he partnered with peer executives and senior leaders to facilitate an unprecedented two-year digital transformation of the company to restructure IT, implement Agile for enterprise systems, integrate robotic process automation, and operationalize an integrated “outcome-based” execution methodology.

Earlier roles included:

Business Process Leader for Shamrock Foods (~$3B), reporting directly to the CEO. He drove strategy execution, designed and led the implementation of Lean and process redesign across the corporation, built world-class BPI teams that quadrupled bottom-line impacts, and redesigned and standardized common enterprise-wide processes including sales and operations.

As the Global Vice President of Operational Excellence for Avnet, Inc. ($23B), Mr. Lawrie implemented and managed business process reengineering to optimize corporate shared services groups and the global warehousing organization.

As a Senior Partner for Six Sigma Qualtec, he led operational excellence deployments across a wide range of industries and corporations over six continents, resulting in bottom-line impacts exceeding $800M annually.

His earlier career included managing and transforming large-scale commercial and defense manufacturing complexes to just-in-time manufacturing, managing venture capital investment teams for Intel Corporation, and co-founding two technology start-ups, later acquired by OMRON and Compaq.

Mr. Lawrie earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from California Polytechnic State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He is an accredited Agile Certified Scrum Master and Certified Lean Master, with additional certifications in Process Reengineering and Demand Flow Technology.

OTTO - BIO

When Otto isn’t practicing law, he’s running practice for his highly ranked travel baseball team. A multi-sport high school and college athlete, he shares his competitive spirit and knowledge with countless young athletes that he interacts with every day. He lives the travel/club experience 365 days a year as a parent, coach, and mentor to many of the youth of northwest Indiana and Chicagoland. A straight shooter, his players speak with him in an open, honest tone of reverence which has provided great insight into the current application features and will help guide the future release of application enhancements.

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Otto Shragal is a Personal Injury attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Indiana and Illinois. Otto Shragal is an equity partner at Allen Law Group LLC. As one of a small number of attorneys selected to Super Lawyers, Otto Shragal gained this recognition through professional achievement, peer recognition, and other distinguishing criteria.

He graduated from The John Marshall Law School in 2004 Cum Laude and was subsequently admitted to legal practice in 2005 after passing the bar exam in both the State of Indiana and Illinois. A gifted orator, Otto is a frequently requested author, panelist, and presenter across the upper Midwest. His body of work includes:

Presentations / Publications

•Program Chair: “Construction Accident and Commercial Premises Liability,” ICLEF Indianapolis (September 2024)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Plaintiff’s Guide Indiana: Personal Injury From Start to Finish (June 9, 2023)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Mini Med School for Attorneys; Pain and Suffering: What Attorneys Need to Know (October 1, 2021)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Faculty Speaker, Expert Witnesses: Learning How to Use the Indiana Court Rules to Your Advantage (August 28, 2019)

•Presenter: “Civil Trial From Start to Finish,” South Bend, Indiana (December 19, 2018)

•Panel Chair and Moderator: “Injury Claims: Anatomy & Physiology in Personal Injury Litigation Made Simple Seminar,” Indianapolis, Indiana (October 31, 2017)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Faculty Speaker, Proving Pain & Suffering in Personal Injury Litigation (September 22, 2016)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Faculty Speaker, Representing Your Client in Federal Court (April 28, 2016)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Guest Speaker, Legal Ethics: Top Challenges (December 17, 2015)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Advanced Civil Litigation Skills (Sept. 24-25, 2015)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Seminar on Calculating Medical Damages in Injury Litigation (June 19, 2015)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Advanced Issues in Personal Injury Litigation (December 16-17, 2014)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Legal Ethics of Evidence (December 15, 2014)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Guest Speaker, Hearsay, Email, Business Records, and Social Media Evidence (August 22, 2014)

•NBI (National Business Institute): Guest Speaker, Sophisticated Deposition Strategies (October 30, 2013)

Mr. Shragal’s efforts and proficiency have garnered numerous acknowledgments of commitment to his craft and community.

Services/Community Activities/Awards

•2023, 2024: Illinois SUPER LAWYERS honoree

•2023, 2024: Indiana SUPER LAWYERS honoree

•2020-2022: Selection to Lawyers of Distinction State of Indiana

•2018-2022: The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer in Indiana

•2016: Corp. America Legal Elite Award Recipient – Jobsite Accident Attorney – Chicagoland

•2014: Top Lawyers in Illinois as ranked in American Lawyer Media

•2012-2016: National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Attorneys Under the Age of 40

AMAN - BIO

Like many in India, Aman grew up an avid fan of soccer and cricket. This passion still burns in him today at the intersection of athletics and technology. Aman was a founding member of IIFX (Innovation Institute for Fan Experience) which seeks to leverage emerging technologies to create deeper, more insightful and engaging experiences between the fans and the teams or athletes they follow. He has been a thought leader in the mapping of the “Fan Journey” and best practices within the sports and entertainment industry guiding executives and helping them assess their safety, security, and service baseline and their effect on the fan experience. A recognized global speaker on personal content ownership, he will help guide LRS athletes and their families on how to curate, capture, register, and monetize their content and their journey.

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Aman is the cofounder of DataCurve and is focused on building Web3 infrastructure, making it easy for businesses to lay the foundations for the next generation of human and machine interactions and immersive experiences. Throughout his career, Aman has consistently demonstrated a keen ability to identify and commercialize emerging technologies that lay the foundations for future business growth. He brings deep industry knowledge and an extensive network of partners to the table, enabling his clients to build and deploy advanced applications with confidence.

As digital technology continues to permeate every facet of our lives, Aman is at the forefront of bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds, particularly in the realms of entertainment and decentralized finance. His work frequently involves crafting solutions at the intersection of cutting-edge technology, innovative business models, and strict regulatory compliance.

Additionally, Aman is a strong advocate for sustainability practices and has extensive experience in building strategic solutions for trading new-age digital assets such as carbon and energy. He began his career as an investor in distressed technology companiesbacked by cutting-edge intellectual property, playing a pivotal role in turning around over 20 such businesses.

Currently, Aman is a board member at Sakuu, an additive manufacturing company building solid-state batteries, and a strategic tech advisor at the Innovation Institute for Fan Experience (IIFX). He is also an investor and trusted advisor to several tech-focused startup companies. Aman holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, where he was named a Swartz Fellow for entrepreneurship.

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