Sam Renaut

Sam leads Deloitte’s college athletics consulting work, which launched in 2024 under the firm’s national Higher Education offering and as part of the broader Deloitte U.S. Sports practice, focusing on universities and athletics departments, conferences and the NCAA, and the third-party college athletics ecosystem. With 24 years of experience in collegiate and professional sports, his career has spanned media, technology, fundraising, strategy, talent representation, professional and academic development, education, marketing and social media, and nonprofit work. In his current role, he brings the full breadth of Deloitte’s professional services to the college athletics industry, having led client work for institutions in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, American, Sun Belt, MAC, ASUN, and across the entirety of DIII, covering everything from private capital, M&A, new entity formation, asset and MMR valuation, enterprise commercialization, fundraising and revenue strategies, to workforce transformation and organizational design, venues, real estate, and infrastructure, economic impact, market and feasibility studies, cost optimization and transparency, change management, business operations and strategy, and more.