Meet The Team | Daigon Esports

Our Team.

Elliot and Younes have the enthusiam for Esports and understand what is needed in international schools while Gary and David bring the know-how and experience of managing and growing a business that works with and supports international schools. Together with Thomas (our School Advisor) we think we make a formidable team.

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Elliot Mack

Co-Founder & CEO

Elliot Mack is the co-founder and CEO of DAIGON. Having grown up in Brussels and Istanbul to French and American parents and having attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in DC pursuing regional and comparative studies, Elliot’s international background and passion for cross-cultural exchange transpire in his vision for DAIGON to connect international schools through structured and educational amateur esports. Having always used gaming as a tool to stay connected to friends despite geographical distance, Elliot intimately understands the power of gaming in community-building across borders.

Younes Alakhir

Co-Founder & COO

Younes Alakhir is the co-founder and COO of DAIGON. With his older brothers being avid gamers, it goes without saying that gaming was one of his passions. Over the years, he came to believe that the amateur Esports community sorely needed what he witnessed in the amateur sports community. Through college where he majored in Finance and Health Economics, Younes wanted to get as many skills and experience as possible outside the classroom, and to do so he built startups to learn how it works, worked as a sales rep in a successful startup and also as a Data scientist in a top Life science company to get a taste of the corporate world.

Gary Hector

Co-Founder, Chair & CTO

Gary joined Daigon in late 2022 as Chair & CTO. Gary was Co-Founder & CEO of SchoolsBuddy prior to its acquisition and then continued as Business Unit Director of SchoolsBuddy within Faria Education Group with his primary focus on Product Development. Now Gary is able to advise and support the Daigon leadership team with particular focus on product development, marketing and business management.

David Higginson

Co-Founder & CRO

David joined Daigon in late 2022 as the Sales and Relationships Advisor/Director. Prior to joining Daigon, he was Co-Founder and Sales Director of SchoolsBuddy and latterly Faria Education. During his tenure at SchoolsBuddy, he developed, designed, and refined the sales process from scratch and was responsible for sales growth from zero to over $1m ARR.

Advisors

School Advisor

Thomas Hitchings

Headteacher of an International School in Shanghai with years of experience as an Activity and Athletic Director Thomas is able to guide us from a schools perspective. Thomas is an experienced Senior Leader and Director of Sport with a demonstrated history of High quality outcomes in the education management. Skilled in Communication, Coaching, Secondary and Primary Education, Event Management, and Educational Technology. Thomas holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) focused in Educational Leadership and Administration

OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE

Among our team we have over 30 years of experience of attending, supplying and working with, as well as working in International Schools. We are on your side.

BUILDING FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

We are here to help and are laser-focused on providing International Schools with the best products to support their expansion into esports. Whether you need help with the platform or have an idea for an improvement, feel free to reach out to any of the operating board members if you have a question.

A GLOBAL VISION

We seek to become the largest worldwide esports network of International Schools and host the biggest worldwide championship for International Schools. To do so, we are growing our team and platform supported by a network of investors who share our vision of the potential and future of esports for International Schools.