Meet the FTN Data team

  • CEO

    Perry Gershon

    CEO

    Perry Gershon is the Chief Executive Officer of FTN as of November 2023.  Perry was the 2018 Democratic nominee for the US House of Representatives in NY CD-1. Previously, Perry was a senior executive in commercial mortgage finance for over 25 years.  In the 1980s, Perry founded one of New York City’s first sports bars allowing customers to see their local teams’ games which were unavailable on home television.  Perry is an avid fan of the NY Mets, NY Knicks and NY Jets.

  • Jeff Ratcliffe

    President

    As a fantasy and sports betting analyst, Jeff lives and breaths football. He helps oversee our products along with research and development of future products.

  • Aaron Schatz

    Chief Analytics Officer

    Aaron Schatz is head of Analytics at FTN Network. He created many original statistical methods for NFL analysis such as DVOA and DYAR. The lead writer and editor on the FTN Football Almanac, Aaron also writes for ESPN.com and ESPN+, and appears weekly during the NFL season on the Schatz and Tanier NFL Podcast via the FTN Media Network. He has written on sports, politics, and taxes for a number of publications including The New Republic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Slate, The American Prospect, and the Boston Phoenix.

  • Frank Brank

    Chief Data Officer

    Frank will handle the day-to-day responsibilities along with the development of new products and sports for FTN Data. As a data analyst, he has years of experience collecting data and developing models for betting on sports

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    Michael Talas

    Senior Manager of Charting

    Michael Talas, a Florida State University graduate, is FTN’s Senior Manager of Charting.

  • Scott Spratt

    Scott Spratt is a fantasy football writer, podcast host, and analyst with more than a decade of sports analytics industry experience. He has previously written for Football Outsiders, ESPN, PFF, and FanGraphs and worked with both Aaron Schatz and Bill James, the respective godfathers of football and baseball analytics. He is a Sloan Analytics Research Paper Competition and Fantasy Sports Writers Association award winner and was a 2018 finalist for FSWA Football Writer of the Year. He is an elusive native Charlottean and has the Jimmy Clausen-given scars to prove it.