Organization / Board of Advisors

Hank Steinbrecher has had a life long relationship with soccer and sport. As a youth player Hank was very active in his home of Queens New York. He began his career playing with Kollsman Football Club and the German Brooklyn Soccer Team.

Mr. Steinbrecher eventually won a soccer scholarship to attend college and played for the National Championship Davis and Elkins team. He earned his Master of Education degree from West Virginia University and went on to teach and coach at Warren Wilson College, Appalachian State University and Boston University. During his coaching career he coached numerous All-Americans and his teams performed in many post- season championships.

Mr. Steinbrecher directed the Football venue for the Los Angles Olympic games at Harvard University. From there he entered the corporate world, directing the Sports Marketing activity for the Quaker Oats Company’s Gatorade Brand.

In 1990, he accepted the post of Secretary General of the United States Soccer Federation. Under his tenure US Soccer experienced unparallel growth. He was responsible for all US National Teams, and for the management of US Soccer business affairs. As CEO of US Soccer, Mr. Steinbrecher was responsible for all aspects of managing a large not-for-profit organization with annual revenues in excess of $30,000,000.00. Mr. Steinbrecher served in senior leadership positions for the World Cup 1994 and for the Women’s World Cup 1999. He served on numerous FIFA and international sport committees.

He retired after 10 years at the helm of US Soccer and now is President of Touchline Consultants Inc., an international sports management and marketing consulting firm. Touchline Consultants has proudly served a host of exceptional clients. Touchline’s clients have included: Australian Institute of Sport; Federation International de Football Association; Sustainable Solutions; FieldTurf artificial surfaces; HOK Sports-Venue-Events; Scholastic Inc.; En-Linea; SKYCAM/cablecam; National Soccer Coaches Association; The Royal Government of Morocco. Mr. Steinbrecher has served as COO of iSe-Hospitality, an iSe International Sports and Entertainment Company, specializing in the sales and production of Premiere Ticket and Hospitality for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.

Touchline Consultants specializes in Strategic Planning for Sports organizations, management of large international sporting events, and successful international sales, marketing and distribution strategies for major product companies. An accomplished public speaker Mr. Steinbrecher has addressed hundreds of domestic and international audiences at a variety of sports symposia.

Mr. Steinbrecher has recently been inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame, has been voted as a Lifetime member of US Soccer and has been presented with the National Soccer Coaches Association highest honor, the Honor Award.

Mr. Homer joins the Goal Alert™ team after spending the past six years with FieldTurf Tarkett and the U.S. Soccer Foundation as their primary soccer development, fundraising and communications director. In his capacity as Director of Soccer Development for North America, Mr. Homer worked extensively with FieldTurf's international sales force to increase sales and marketing of all soccer-specific accounts.

A seasoned soccer coach, Mr. Homer has a National "B" Coaching License from the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) and an Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Presently, he is Head Coach of the Aegean Hawks Football Club, a nationally-recognized men's amateur soccer team based in Arlington, Va. In 2009, the team captured the USASA National Amateur Cup championship and had six of its players selected to the USASA National Amateur Team. In recognition of his efforts, the USASA awarded Mr. Homer National Coach of the Year honors.

Mr. Homer is the President of Footprint Solutions LLC, an international sports management and marketing consulting firm.

Greg heads up business operations and product development at Goal Alert. He is drawn toward solving problems through socially conscious product development including safety in sport.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Illinois, Greg’s involvement in entrepreneurial pursuits began with a book that he penned while studying at the University of Illinois (’92) and subsequently sold to Bantam Doubleday Dell. Upon graduating Greg began a career in construction management where he managed some of Chicago’s largest and most challenging commercial interior projects. At this point his involvement in product development was relegated to a side pursuit, however, in 1997 he licensed and sold a product (patented in 2000) to a national manufacturer with distribution to many of the nation’s largest retailers.

Beginning in 2003 Greg immersed himself in all relevant aspects of soccer goal safety including the physics of soccer goals and the tip over, soils and soil conditions, disparate anchoring systems as well as the human/mismanagement element involved in tip overs.

Although Greg did not play soccer as a child his passion for the cause of soccer goal safety has its’ origins with a childhood accident experienced by a friend.

Tim "T.J." Dempsey acts as a Managing Director for Goal Alert™, in charge of business development and sales. Tim did his undergraduate work at Arizona State University and then completed his MBA on a pan-European program affiliated with University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Prior to joining Goal Alert, Tim spent nearly 10 years publishing books, largely out of London, with firms such as the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, JP Morgan, UBS etc. in cooperation with organizations like the IMF, the World Bank, the EBRD, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the European Commission etc. and law firms such as Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Weil Gotshal & Manges etc.

Prior to that, Tim worked in Los Angeles in film production and distribution. During his time in Los Angeles, he worked for Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Entertainment on films such as Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Oliver Stone's U-Turn, Milos Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt, Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil and Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces.