As President and Founding Partner of Pathway, Casey Schwab is an entrepreneur, operator, and lawyer whose career has spanned across sports media, the NFL, and college athletics. He has managed P&Ls and led transformative deals while leading diverse teams in the areas of media rights, sponsorship, licensing, labor negotiations, sports betting, talent, and risk management.

Before Pathway, he was the founder and CEO of Altius Sports Partners, which was fully acquired by private equity firm NewSpring Capital in 2023. Altius is the nation’s leading strategic advisor to blue-chip university athletic programs and corporate brands. Prior to founding Altius, Casey was the Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs at the NFL Players Association, leading the extension of deals with Fanatics and Electronic Arts, the creation/launch of OneTeam Partners with RedBird Capital, and the commercial portion of the current CBA between the NFLPA and the NFL. He began his career after law school at NFL Media and FOX Sports, negotiating media rights and on-air talent deals.

Casey was named to the Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award (2021), The Athletic’s “College Basketball 20 for the Next 20” list of industry leaders (2023), and the Seattle Times’ “Top 25 Most Influential People in College Football” (2025). He has also taught at both USC and Howard Law School as an adjunct professor.A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and USC Gould School of Law, he now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Emilie, son Max, and daughter Becca.

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