Rob Sine
Rob Sine is the president and founder of Hands On Sports & Entertainment, launched in 2006. His company understands that ticket sales are the life blood of any sport or entertainment organization and believes in working with a client from the foundation up to increase the speed and yield of tickets being sold. In doing this their focal point is spending time in-market and in the field with a client’s staff and management. Additionally, helping emerging owners with “franchise start up’s/ turnaround’s” and utilizing their expertise in group ticket sales have been the core of this business model. In four short years, this ‘Hands On’ approach has helped to collectively grow their clients’ ticket sales business over $13 million dollars.
Rob developed his company’s values while excelling in professional sports and entertainment for over 12 years, both as a league-wide top performing seller and senior executive. Rob's career began in Cincinnati with the IHL and NPSL, while simultaneously selling and marketing arena shows and events at US Bank Arena. Moving on to the Ft. Worth, TX and the WPHL, he was named “League Marketing and Sales Executive of the Year” for designing the marketing and sales plan that increased attendance by over 2,500 fans per game. Rob spent the next seven years building and running the group & ticket sales departments for three NBA teams: Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics and Portland Trail Blazers. His departments excelled and set franchise records with a combined total first-year increase of over $1.5 million dollars in new group ticket revenue and over 85,000 new group ticket tickets sold. His mark still remains on each franchise as they sustain their place at the top of the NBA group ticket sales each year.
Rob received his degree from Penn State University and currently resides outside of Seattle, WA with his wife, their twin daughters and two Great Danes.