October 29, 2025 Colin Gillespie

Featured Education Placement: Brand Manager at Gopher Sports

Brandi Brown

The Renaissance Network is excited to announce the placement of Brandi Brown as Brand Manager for their client, Gopher Sports. Gopher Sport is an industry-leading inventor and supplier of high-quality physical education, athletics, fitness, and recreation solutions for schools and institutions across the country. Their innovative products are designed to increase physical activity and create positive, healthy learning environments. 

As Brand Manager, Brandi will lead the strategy, development, and execution for brilliant marketing, sales, and content delivery plans for Gopher’s SPARK brand. SPARK is a family of evidence-based physical education, after-schoo,l and early childhood education curriculum that shows teachers how to help kids develop important motor and movement skills while also improving social and personal abilities.

With 15+ years of Education & EdTech industry experience, Brandi is a high-energy, forward-thinking marketing professional with deep proficiency in marketing strategy, communications, branding, sales and product support, and direct marketing. She is always focused on the big picture before, during and after tactical execution to achieve strategic and commercial goals. Most recently, Brandi led strategic marketing for ESGI, a platform supporting foundational skill development in PreK–2 and beyond. She has also held marketing leadership roles with Square Panda and Hand2Mind. 

Brandi received a Master of Science degree from the Medill Integrated Marketing Communications program at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing, Business Administration, and Graphic Design from Carthage College.

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For over 75 years, Gopher Sport has been committed to serving physical education, athletics, and fitness professionals. They help the heroes who teach and coach achieve better results! Gopher is committed to giving their customers top-notch products; fast, friendly, easy service; and an unconditional satisfaction guarantee. The mission of the team at Gopher Sport is to help teachers and coaches show kids how to have fun and become healthier through physical activity.

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To learn more about TRN’s process and find out how we help organizations quickly meet leadership and team hiring needs by providing a pool of skilled candidates, contact us today!

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Colin Homer Gillespie is a strategic and purpose-driven GM with significant global experience and a record of product innovation and business transformation.

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