Texas Made Sports Development, Inc DBA Chaparral at iSports

Texas Made Sports Development, Inc, a for-profit entity led by Ryan Raya, has an extremely experienced and knowledgeable management and development team comprised of USA Hockey leaders, a Vancouver Olympic arena developer, highly experienced rink managers, and professionals with industry experience in multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project. Ryan has been the full-time CEO of Chaparral Ice since January 15, 2017. Before that, he served as a project manager for Cintra US. Outside of hockey, Ryan’s professional experience includes legal and insurance experience as a commercial general liability underwriter, facility management expertise in his time with Johnson Control’s Building Efficiency unit as the Global Program Director on a $300m account and construction/operations/budgeting experience for multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects while at Cintra. Ryan’s understanding of general facility operations and maintenance practices, pricing, and staffing, in combination with his master’s degree in International Commerce, bring a holistic perspective to Chaparral Ice. As the recently appointed director and coach for the Ice Hockey Association of Austin (IHAA), Ryan has come to the organization by way of many different professional organizations and experiences as both a player and a USA Hockey Level 5 coach. Ryan has played high school and college hockey totaling over 20 years within organized hockey and has 16 years of coaching experience on top of operational experience as a board member for the Herndon High School Hockey Club, Virginia Wild Hockey Club, and advisory positions with the Piedmont Predators Hockey Club. The Chaparral Ice Group operations will be his sole source of income and all efforts will be dedicated to ensuring investors and customers have a successful experience. From 2014 to present, Ryan has served as the Director of Coaching and Player Development at Texas Junior Stars Hockey Club. Additionally, he served as program manager at Cintra US from January 2015-January 2017. In January 2017, he founded Texas Made Sports Development and presently serves as CEO and Director. Currently, Ryan spends 48 hours a week working on Chaparral Ice Group and 2 hours working for the Hockey Club.

Angie is a lifelong lover of ice sports and is currently the USA Hockey Regional Director for Women's Hockey. In addition to hockey, she has a love of ringette, and played in the 2002 World Ringette Championship in Alberta, Canada. That same year, she began playing in Chaparral Ice’s adult recreational hockey and women’s hockey leagues, where she found what she calls her “home away from home.” Before long, she was running kids’ summer camps and coaching workshops. Seventeen years later, she’s general manager of the Chaparral Ice at Northcross Center. But for Angie, it’s more than just a job.

Eric brings unbridled passion for organized hockey to Austin. A highly successful builder/developer and dedicated hockey player, Eric brings on- and off-ice team player integrity to everything he does—including playing the game, coaching kids, and striving to be a dedicated husband and father to his wife and four beautiful children. Founder of Perardi Development and co-founder of Hat Trick Development, Eric specializes in commercial real estate with extensive experience in development, leasing, marketing, financial modeling, and equity syndication. His contributions include 13 medical office projects totaling over 340,000 sq. ft. across Central Texas and raising over $50M of equity for $165M in projects. Perardi Development is expanding beyond Central Texas into emerging markets that lack physician care and quality medical office buildings, and is currently developing five new medical office centers from Austin to southern San Antonio.

Kelly Sorensen joined the First Financial Bancorp office in September 2002. As Executive Vice President, he is responsible for securing debt and equity financing for an array of property types including residential, multifamily, office and industrial, retail and hospitality. He and his team are well connected with national, regional and local funding sources including, but not limited to, agency lenders (e.g., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac), commercial banks, CMBS lenders, life insurance companies, private and public funds and bridge lenders. Kelly has more than 16 years of real estate finance experience and has closed in excess of $800 million in loans. He specializes in structuring multifamily, retail and industrial products as well as other special purpose properties. Prior to his real estate finance career, Kelly was a two-sport professional. He was drafted by the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and held a Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Membership status. From 1994 to 2002, Kelly was an operations executive with Santa Monica-based American Golf Corporation (AGC). During his tenure with AGC, Kelly earned his MBA with honors from Loyola Marymount University.

Tamir has been the SVP, Software Development and Infrastructure at Virtu Financia and principle investor since August 2008 to present. Virtu Financial is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. Tamir understand investments in people and vision. His family has fallen in love with hockey and believes in the mission of Chaparral Ice. As the principle investor and debt guarantor of Chaparral Ice, he provides solvency behind a business that has been operating in the recreational sports space for over 20 years and has seen the remarkable transformation of the company in the 2 years since Ryan took ownership.