Naples Soap Company, Inc. announced the appointment of Ira Miller to its Board of Directors. Mr. Miller is the Founder & CEO of Zone Capital Partners and First Inning Ventures. Through Zone Capital Partners, he has represented and supported over $6 billion in aggregate market capitalization to the financial community and helped companies uplist to the NYSE or Nasdaq stock exchanges.

At First Inning Ventures, Mr. Miller leverages his extensive experience and network in venture capital, M&A, and sports entrepreneurship to provide innovative and strategic solutions for sports-related businesses and opportunities. First Inning Ventures is an emerging global platform that offers sports athlete agency and branding services. The company is involved in financing a nationwide high school sports network, European soccer clubs, and collegiate women?s soccer.

Passionate about sports philanthropy and social impact, Mr. Miller launched and underwrote sports venture and M&A entrepreneurial platforms at Rutgers University for undergraduate students and at Duke University and its Fuqua School of Business for undergraduate and MBA programs to support students in their efforts to increase their knowledge of the sports venture community. Mr. Miller was also a guest lecturer at UCLA where he served on the Economic Board.