Maine Principals’ Association Signs Multi-Year Partnership with TPG
AUGUSTA, ME (SEPTEMBER 21, 2020)—The Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) has signed a multi-year partnership with Teall Properties Group (TPG), a multimedia and marketing management company for high schools, as the exclusive agent for strategic business partnerships, athletic sponsorships and multimedia rights.
Under the partnership, TPG will work with the MPA to develop business relationships to benefit the Association, and in turn its member schools. TPG also will represent the MPA in negotiations for opportunities related to the regional and national recognition of the Association’s championships across its extracurricular activities.
“Adding the MPA continues to strengthen our presence in the Northeast,” TPG CEO Mike Wolfert. “By utilizing our other partnerships in the region, we will see tremendous benefit for the MPA, their member schools, and all their students.” TPG has hired sports partnership veteran, Jenna Raizes, as General Manager. Raizes most recently spent two years as the General Manager of Wildcat Sports Properties at the University of New Hampshire with Learfield IMG College and six years in the front office of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team.
“We are delighted to work with TPG and thrilled to have a sports-minded and community focused talent in Jenna leading the way for the MPA,” said Mike Burnham, Executive Director of the Interscholastic Division of the MPA. “We place a very high value on building relationships with the brands and organizations who wish to support the MPA, our member schools, and the state’s student-athletes. We look forward to engaging in valuable, meaningful partnerships for many years with TPG.”
The MPA joins a group of fifteen properties associated with TPG, including the District of Columbia State Athletic Association (DCSAA), Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA), National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), NFHS Network, New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA), New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA), North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association (NCISAA), the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA), the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference (OVAC), the Commented [ED1]: Please confirm this is correct Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL), the South Carolina High School League (SCHSL), the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA), the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA), Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA), and the Western Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL).
About the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA)
The MPA builds partnerships that provide a network of resources, exemplars of leadership and a culture of collaboration for the benefit of all school community members. The MPA is a private, educational, nonprofit corporation with voluntary membership that is comprised of two distinct divisions: the Division of Professional Activities and the Division of Interscholastic Activities.
Learn more at mpa.cc.
About TPG
Teall Capital created its TPG division in 2018 to serve as Teall Capital’s arm for the high school market. TPG believes in the high school student-athlete experience and how it positively shapes our next generation. It is our mission to support this cause by connecting its community to organizations and brands that share in this belief.
For more information, please visit TeallPropertiesGroup.com.
About Teall Capital Partners
Teall Capital is a privately held set of investments in innovative, high-growth potential lifestyle brands, experiences and services. The company’s leadership has extensive experience in sports, media, marketing, and entertainment, and the group provides its operating companies deep expertise in a number of disciplines: corporate strategy, organizational management, culture and training, financial strategy, employee operations, recruiting, and expert legal diligence.
Teall Capital is led by Ben C. Sutton, Jr. and an executive management team that built and expanded four national market-leading businesses in the college sports space: IMG College Multi-media, IMG College Seating, IMG College Licensing, and IMG Learfield Ticketing. Teall invests in complementary organizations that can strategically work together to realize greater value, sharing in expertise, thought leadership, and networks.
For more information, please visit TeallCapital.com.
