David H. Martin
Founder / President / CEO

Detroit native David H. Martin, Founder and President / CEO of NP Sports Productions, brings a wealth of production and sports experience to the team. David, a self -proclaimed artsy jock, founded NP Sports Productions in 1998 on his unique background of baseball and theatre. Through David’s leadership over the last ten years NP Sports Productions has grown from one baseball client to an extensive roster of clients today. David is responsible for the design, fabrication and activation of all events for NP Sports Productions.

David has created and implemented over 500 events in his tenure at NP Sports Productions. Martin has designed and produced events for such clients as Major League Baseball, University of Michigan, CBS Radio, Maxim Magazine and the Chicago Blackhawks. He has been the production manager on several shows in the entertainment touring industry and is well versed in all areas of entertainment production.

Martin is a graduate of the Theatre School at the University of Windsor, Canada. Before founding NP Sports Productions. Martin was a collegiate baseball coach at such Universities as Bowling Green State, Eastern Michigan and the University of Miami, Florida. Martin competed in the 1992 College World Series for the University of Miami, Florida.

David enjoys spending his spare time keeping the beat as the drummer in a rock band with his old high school friends. He coaches his children’s little league baseball team and always looks forward to a good game of wiffle ball with the kids.

Martin resides in the in the Detroit, Michigan area with his wife Theresa and three children.

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Jason joined NP Sports Productions in 2009 and has responsibility for all sales, operations, human resource and finance functions of the company. 

Prior to joining NP Sports Productions Jason worked for five years as a finance director for a private real estate holding company. He lead the acquisition, due diligence, closing and loan documentation on over $500MM in commercial real estate assets.

Jason also spent seven years working with Capgemini US LCC (formerly the consulting arm of Ernst & Young LLP). Jason was a Senior Manager leading large project engagements across multiple industries with focus on operational and process efficiencies.

Jason is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a BSBA and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with an MBA.  Jason resides in Chicago with his wife Katie and their two sons.

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Jason Woolley
Executive Vice President
Hat-Trick Productions

Upon retiring from the game of professional hockey in 2007, Jason looked for his next career endeavor, like many professional athletes, he wanted to stay involved with the game of hockey but had not determined from which angle to pursue his involvement.  In the fall of 2007, he was introduced to David Martin, founder of National Pastime Sports.  Jason attended a few of the baseball themed events, and knew immediately that hockey would be a logical brand extension.  Jason and David co-founded Hat-Trick Productions with the intent to use Jason’s NHL experience in the design of authentic interactive components while combining David’s production background to create realistic hockey themed events.   Today, Hat-Trick Productions is a jointly owned subsidiary of NP Sports Productions.  

Jason is responsible for the sales, design and implementation of all Hat-Trick Production events.  He has overseen a dozen hockey themed shows since the creation of Hat-Trick Productions in 2007.

 Prior to his role with Hat-Trick Productions, Jason played 15 years in the NHL for five different teams. (Washington,Florida, Pittsburg,Buffalo, and Detroit). He was drafted out ofMichigan State in 1989 by the Washington Capitals.

 Jason’s career highlights include playing in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1996 and scoring the game winning overtime goal in Game 1 for the Buffalo Sabres in 1999. He also won a Silver Medal in the 1992 Olympics for Canada.
 
Jason resides in the Detroit area with his wife Danica and their three children

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