Crafting
the language
of sports

Leading the family business since 2019

Joe leads Elias into a new chapter of sports history. He follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Seymour Siwoff—visionary leader of the company for close to 70 years. Like his grandfather, Joe combines his passion for sports with his love of numbers. Where Seymour brought his accountant mentality to Elias, Joe brings his business analyst expertise. For over a decade, Joe has used data to find opportunities, assess risk, and project the future.

Early in his career Joe worked as an Elias researcher and SQL analyst. Fast forward to today, where the world of sports has more data than it knows what to do with. Joe is proud to lead Elias in doing what we do best—making sense of it all.

Joined Elias in 1985

For nearly 40 years at Elias, Frank has been shaping sports history. His love of sports and curiosity about each league’s history drives his pursuit of knowledge and perfection of Elias’ databases. His responsibilities and skills have evolved to match advances in technology, and the growing needs of our clients.

Frank began his career at Elias as a high school intern. He cataloged baseball play-by-plays and manually entered NBA and NFL game stats that were faxed from arenas and stadiums across the country. He digitized Elias’ vast historical archive of league records, which only existed on paper and microfilm at the time. Driven by a passion for college basketball history, he created Elias' NCAA basketball database. Today he manages a research staff where each member has over 20 years of experience at Elias. Frank and his team draw on their deep well of knowledge and research expertise, to illuminate today’s athletic achievements with the light of the past.

Joined Elias in 1997

As early as 10 years old Randy showed a love of stats, diligently recording his golf scores on a family computer that utilized cassette tapes for storage. His educational background, comprising of a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science and a master's degree in Statistics, have served as a cornerstone for his career. He later channeled his passion into foundational work on Elias' golf database and research contributions to various leagues. As an Elias researcher, Randy developed his skills working behind the scenes on studio shows and for networks like ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, NHL Network, and NBC. His openness, knowledge and creativity have strengthened Elias’ professional relationships, making his transition to business development an obvious and natural one. In recent years, Randy has broadened his golf expertise to create new opportunities with the PGA of America and The Masters Tournament.

Joined Elias in 2002

Like all Elias researchers, Rob developed his sports research skills long before he began his career at Elias. In his early teens, Rob organized his own basketball league, tracked stats and standings, maintained long term schedules, and did intense research for his fantasy sports and trivia leagues. He put his passion to work as an intern at Elias, and today, as leader of the night research team.

Rob’s career highlights to date: He was one of the first employees to work Elias’ night shift, turning the company into a truly 24-hour/365-day company. He helped craft the standards for overnight data collection and validation. He was the youngest regular contributor to Elias’ former insights column on ESPN.com. And most notably, he was awarded a Sports Emmy for his research contributions to MLB Network’s MLB Tonight show.

Joined Elias in 2020

Dave brings 15+ years of software development experience in product management, engineering, and marketing to Elias, helping businesses across many industries to grow and thrive. Prior to joining Elias, Dave helped grow revenue and customer engagement in 5+ years in product at The Knot Worldwide, en route to a nearly $1 billion acquisition in 2018. As a product and engineering leader at NYC startups Glamsquad, Wyng, and Spoken Hub, Dave grew clientele, built partnerships, helped fundraise, and developed products used by a wide range of customers - everyday consumers, unicorn startups, multinational corporations, even US presidential and congressional campaigns.

Dave has been a fanatical fantasy sports enthusiast since the "play by mail" days and can usually be found tweaking player projections and valuations via homegrown software and spreadsheets.

Joined Elias in 2020

For over 20 years Luke has been honing his engineering and leadership skills. Nearly half of those years were spent at The New York Times, where he started as a software engineer and left as Executive Director of Technology. Focusing on CMS tools and content APIs, he helped The Times transition from a newspaper with a website to a multi-platform media company.

He then brought his engineering leadership to BuzzFeed. As VP of Engineering, he oversaw the hiring of dozens of engineers, shaped the overall tech team structure and culture across 4 offices, and managed teams that delighted users with BuzzFeed Quizzes, News, Tasty Recipes and more.

As a sports fan, Luke is thrilled to apply his expertise to Elias' deep archive of sports data. His enthusiasm for sports stats dates back to childhood, when he learned to score a baseball game at age 8. He keeps a scorecard from a 1989 Mets game where not a single assist was recorded—a feat the National League had not witnessed since 1954.