Strategy. Structure. Impact. Legacy.

Athletes build careers. We build enterprises.

AEG is not an agency. We are the quarterback of the athlete's business ecosystem — building the infrastructure around the athlete so they can focus on performing at the highest level.

Building today. Empowering tomorrow.
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The Problem

Athletes become CEOs
overnight — with no
front office.

Millions of dollars are made or lost not in the contract, but in everything that happens after it. The advisors exist. Nobody is coordinating them.

01

Families don't know who to trust

Everyone shows up at once. Few are vetted. Fewer are aligned with the athlete's long-term interest.

02

Advisors work in silos

The attorney, CPA, agent, and financial advisor rarely speak. Decisions get made without full context.

03

Nobody owns the strategy

Every professional executes their piece. No one is accountable for how the pieces fit together.

04

Parents become business managers

Families are handed a seven-figure enterprise and no operating manual, no governance, no playbook.

Our Philosophy

We don't replace your
team. We make sure it
works together.

AEG coordinates agents, attorneys, accountants, and financial advisors so every decision is intentional and aligned with the athlete's long-term goals. We aren't trying to become every expert — we make sure every expert is talking to each other.

What We Do

The business behind
the business.

Six disciplines, one integrated engagement — delivered with the professionalism of a family office and the accessibility athletes at every stage actually need.

Business Architecture

The legal and operational chassis the entire enterprise runs on.

  • Entity formation
  • Organizational structure
  • Business systems
  • Operating procedures

Strategic Planning

A written roadmap for the next decade — not the next deal.

  • Long-term vision
  • Career roadmap
  • Brand planning
  • Decision frameworks

Business Management

Someone accountable for the calendar, the cadence, and the follow-through.

  • Advisor coordination
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Vendor management
  • Accountability

NIL Advisory

Evaluating opportunity against compliance, brand equity, and lifetime value.

  • Brand partnerships
  • Revenue planning
  • Compliance
  • Opportunity evaluation

Family Advisory

Business literacy for the people sitting at the table beside the athlete.

  • Parent education
  • Athlete education
  • Financial literacy
  • Governance training

Legacy Planning

Structuring impact so it outlives the playing career.

  • Philanthropy
  • Foundations
  • Donor advised funds
  • Long-term impact
AEGThe Quarterback

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The Model

One firm at the
center of it all.

Every advisor keeps their seat. AEG holds the huddle — setting the agenda, chasing the loose ends, and making sure no decision is made in isolation.

  • 01

    AssessFull audit of the athlete's existing structure, advisors, contracts, and exposure.

  • 02

    AssembleFill the gaps from a vetted network — CPA, IP counsel, wealth management, insurance, PR.

  • 03

    AlignOne strategy, one calendar, one scorecard that every advisor works against.

  • 04

    AdvanceOngoing management, quarterly governance, and course correction as the career evolves.

What This Looks Like

Three situations
we're built for.

The specifics change. The pattern rarely does — capable professionals, no coordination, and a family making consequential decisions without a full picture.

01
Elite Recruit

The verbal deal nobody papered.

A top recruit commits, and within weeks has three NIL arrangements agreed by text message. No entity exists. The family is fielding calls from advisors who found them, not the other way around.

What was missing
  • No business entity — income landing in a personal account
  • Agreements with no written terms, exclusivity, or exit
  • No tax registration in the states where income was earned
  • No filter on who was getting access to the athlete
What AEG does
  • Forms the entity and moves income into a proper structure
  • Routes every agreement through independent contract review
  • Brings in tax counsel before the first filing deadline, not after
  • Becomes the single point of contact so the family stops fielding cold outreach

What changes: the family stops making one-off decisions under pressure and starts running a business with terms, records, and a calendar.

02
Newly Professional

Four advisors who've never spoken.

A drafted athlete arrives with an agent, an agent-referred financial advisor, a CPA the family has used for years, and an attorney who handled a real estate closing. Each is competent. None has met the others.

What was missing
  • Investment decisions made without the tax position in view
  • No estate documents despite a sudden, significant balance sheet
  • Disability and loss-of-value coverage never modeled
  • Nobody accountable for the plan as a whole
What AEG does
  • Audits the full picture — advisors, contracts, coverage, exposure
  • Convenes the first meeting where all four are in the same room
  • Fills the gaps from the bench where a discipline has no seat
  • Publishes one strategy and one calendar everyone works against

What changes: the advisors keep their seats and their scope. What's new is that someone owns how the pieces fit — and notices when they don't.

03
Transfer with NIL Income

Income in two states, brand in someone else's hands.

An athlete transfers mid-career carrying collective income from one state and new obligations in another. A marketing partner holds the photo library, the logo files, and the handle for a personal brand the athlete assumed was theirs.

What was missing
  • Multi-state filing obligations nobody had mapped
  • Collective compliance treated as the school's problem
  • Creative assets and account access owned by a vendor
  • No trademark filed on a name already in commercial use
What AEG does
  • Maps the tax footprint and coordinates filings across both states
  • Reviews collective terms against eligibility exposure
  • Recovers asset ownership and account control in writing
  • Brings IP counsel in to file before value accrues further

What changes: the athlete owns their own brand assets, knows their tax exposure before it's a penalty, and has terms that survive the next move.

These are illustrative composites describing the situations AEG is built to address. They are not accounts of specific clients, and no outcome is guaranteed. Client work is confidential and is not published.

Concierge
Need
Call AEG.

One trusted call. We assemble the team, run the process, and report back. Families shouldn't have to know which specialist to hire — that's our job.

Trusted Advisor Network

Vetted. Coordinated. Accountable.

Every partner in the network is selected against defined criteria and held to AEG's standards of service, communication, and athlete-first judgment.

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Who We Serve

Built for every stage
of the career.

Elite Recruits

High school athletes entering the NIL market for the first time.

College Athletes

Managing income, compliance, and brand while still in school.

Professionals

Signed athletes with real enterprises and real complexity.

Olympians

Non-traditional revenue, sponsorship, and career arcs.

Athlete Families

Parents and siblings suddenly running a business.

Foundations

Athlete-led philanthropy that needs real governance.

About AEG

Why this firm
exists.

Thirty years of recruiting, coaching, and building organizations taught Tim Fudd the same lesson over and over: the athletes who lose the most rarely lack good advisors. They lack anyone whose job is the whole picture.

Tim Fudd, Founder of Athlete Enterprise Group
Tim Fudd Founder & Principal Advisor

“I'm not trying to be every expert.
I make sure every expert is talking to each other.”

For more than three decades, Tim Fudd has built organizations, developed leaders, and guided athletes and families through some of the most important decisions of their lives. As a collegiate recruiter, coach, educator, business leader, and trusted advisor, he has been driven by one mission: helping people build something bigger than the moment in front of them.

Across all of it, the same pattern kept repeating. Talented athletes were surrounded by accomplished professionals — agents, attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, marketing experts — but too often those professionals operated independently. Everyone was doing their job, and still no one was responsible for connecting the strategy. The result was missed opportunities, unnecessary risk, and families left trying to manage a business they were never prepared to run.

Athlete Enterprise Group was created to solve that problem. AEG serves as the strategic quarterback of the athlete's business enterprise — bringing together the right people, aligning every advisor, and making sure every decision supports the athlete's long-term vision. We don't replace trusted professionals. We make them a stronger team.

The principles behind the work
  • Integrity
  • Preparation
  • Accountability
  • Communication
  • Service
  • Based inFairfax, Virginia
  • FocusAthlete & family enterprise management
  • Founded2026
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Every athlete deserves more than representation.
They deserve structure.

Every family deserves more than advice.
They deserve clarity and confidence.

And every enterprise deserves a leader who sees the entire field
before the next play is called.

01

Structure before opportunity

The entity, the agreements, and the records come first. Deals built on top of nothing eventually collapse into it.

02

Coordination over control

Every advisor keeps their seat and their expertise. What's missing is someone accountable for how it all fits together.

03

Educate the family

An athlete who understands their own business makes better decisions for forty years. Dependence is not a service model.

04

Build past the career

The playing window is short. The enterprise, the wealth, and the impact are supposed to outlast it.

Start Here

Let's build the
front office.

Every engagement begins with a confidential conversation about where the athlete is today and what's missing. No pitch decks, no pressure — just an honest assessment.

Direct

tfudd@athleteenterprisegroup.com

Fairfax, Virginia  ·  Serving athletes and families nationwide

All inquiries are confidential. AEG is a strategic advisory firm and does not provide legal, tax, or investment advice.