Kyle Sheldon is the Founder and CEO of Name & Number, a soccer-specific marketing and creative agency built to connect teams and brands to American soccer fans and culture. 

He has nearly 20 years of experience marketing professional soccer in the United States. His award-winning career in Major League Soccer has seen stops at Seattle Sounders FC, D.C. United, and Chicago Fire FC where he has overseen a host of areas including advertising, brand and design, content and social media, events, matchday experience, corporate partnership sales, corporate partnership marketing, social media, supporter relations, and video production, among other areas. 

Sheldon has a B.A. in Communication and Media Studies from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota – where he also played collegiate soccer – and an M.A. in Public Relations from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He lives in greater Chicago with his wife Corinne and two boys, Jack (6) and Noel (3).