Debbie Spander | CEO & President
Debbie Spander is founder and CEO of Insight Sports Advisors, a boutique agency focused on media, coaches, executives, influencers and NIL athletes. Debbie’s experience and deep connections throughout the sports world provide an unparalleled platform to help clients build their personal brands and maximize their careers. Debbie is a fierce advocate for her clients and is passionate about getting them the best deals possible.
Debbie was previously an agent at Wasserman Media Group, where she rose to Senior Vice President of its Broadcasting and Coaching Division representing high profile talent, coaches and executives. Through her understanding of the rapid changes in the sports industry Debbie positioned clients to benefit from the convergence of media and technology. She was a founding member of Wasserman’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council.
Debbie began her media career at Fox Sports Networks, where she was the lead negotiator and lawyer for all national telecast licenses, including the ground-breaking $1.2B NASCAR telecast rights agreement. She also helped create Pac-10 Properties and re-launch the Pac-10 (Pac-12) basketball tournament, and structured and negotiated tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship and marketing agreements for Fox Cable Integrated Sales and Marketing.
Debbie is a Director for the Arizona State University Bud Selig Sports Business & Law Program, and serves on the Boards of Team to Win, a Los-Angeles based charity which funds medical care and trainers for high school athletes and programs as well as for Westcoast Sports, a charity that funds after-school programs for underserved youth. In 2016, she was named a Sports Business Journal Game Changer She is a frequent speaker at sports business and media conferences, and together with her husband Marc Isenberg taught the NIL Experience at USC. In 2020, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Odele Hawkins | Vice President, Talent
Odele Hawkins is an attorney and producer and brings a wealth of experience to Insight after more than 20 years in the sports and entertainment production space. Prior to founding Camavele, Media Sports & Entertainment, LLC, a media operations consultancy, Odele was Senior Director of Talent and Development with the Pac-12 Networks. There, Odele created the Pac-12 Talent Bootcamp, which propelled the careers of many influential broadcasters who are now on the National stage. Odele's wide-ranging talent development and management experience includes working with top network play-by-play voices, Olympians, former NCAA, NBA, MLB and NFL stars and coaches turned broadcasters, studio hosts and national sports radio personalities.
Prior to the Pac-12, Odele was a member of the team that launched the Big Ten Network. Serving in a legal and production operations capacity Odele was responsible for negotiating all on-air talent agreements and managed legal affairs related to the development and production of BTN’s live and studio productions. Odele also developed and managed business operations policies, procedures and strategies related to matters such as risk management, labor relations, payroll, SAG/AFTRA compliance, music and other licensing.
Odele is a native of Oakland, California where she still resides and holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Wellesley College and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law. She holds true to the ideal of non-adversarial negotiations and relationship.
Trevor Brendlin | Director, Marketing
A driven and entrepreneurial sports business professional, Trevor Brendlin possesses a powerful combination of talent representation expertise, marketing acumen, and legal insight. As the Director of Marketing and Client Services at Insight Sports Advisors, Trevor is a catalyst for success, propelling athletes, coaches, and media personalities toward their career aspirations.
A founding member of Insight Sports Advisors, Trevor has been instrumental in the company's growth. Trevor spearheads marketing efforts, skillfully activates client deals, identifies talent, produces broadcast reels, and crafts compelling marketing strategies for clients.
Trevor is also a Juris Doctor candidate at Western State College of Law and holds degrees from Boise State University and Arizona State University.
