Todd Crannell is a NFL and Entertainment agent. His agency, Q2 Sports and Entertainment, represents a diversified portfolio of athletes, models, celebrities and TV personalities. Some of the company's best known clients include Glen Coffee

Glen Coffee

Glenwood Razeem Coffee, Jr is a former American football running back for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was selected by the 49ers in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft and played one season before retiring in 2010. He played college football at Alabama.-Freshman:In...

 (Retired San Francisco 49ers Running Back), Bam Margera

Bam Margera

Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, actor and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew...

 (MTV personality), Vida Guerra

Vida Guerra

Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American glamour model. Her first notable appearance was in the U.S. edition of FHM magazine in December 2002; since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines....

 (model), Pauly Shore

Pauly Shore

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 (comedian), and Kerron Clement

Kerron Clement

Kerron Stephon Clement is Trinidadian-born track and field athlete who represents the United States and specializes in the 400-meter hurdles...

 (Olympic track & field sprinter).

Q2 Sports and Entertainment

Todd Crannell is the President and Founder of Q2 Sports & Entertainment, a full service sports and entertainment talent agency. In his role as President, Crannell is responsible for leading the company's strategic initiatives and growing Q2's business activities. He also manages the daily operations of the NFL Division and serves as the day-to-day agent for Q2's football clients. He is duly certified by the National Football League Players Association

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 to represent players in contract negotiations with NFL teams.

Work experience

Before he started Q2, Crannell served as Director of the Sports Division and Sales Staff at Irene Marie Agency, a Florida based talent-agency. He also worked for the United States Department of Labor

United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The...

 as an economist. He conducted research and co-published the economic report “Employment Situation,” which provided analysis used by both the Congress and the White House. Crannell has carried those interpretive and persuasive skills he gained as an economist with him to the NFL contract negotiation table. While in Washington D.C., Crannell also volunteered his time at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 for several years as an assistant coach for the school's track & field team. During his tenure in Washington, he was linked to Octagon's tennis agent Lisa Chaffey for several years, where he first got introduced to the sports business.

Education

Crannell completed his graduate school studies in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 at the Oxford University. While at Oxford, Crannell completed his MBA degree. He was educated on key business skills that apply directly to client representation, such as contract negotiations, sports marketing

Sports marketing

Sport marketing is divided into three sectors. The first is the advertising of sport and sports associations such as the Olympics, Spanish Football league and the NFL. The second concerns the use of sporting events, sporting teams and individual athletes to promote various products. The third is...

, branding, wage data analysis, and other disciplines that sports and talent agents regularly utilize.

Crannell completed his undergraduate studies at Florida State University

Florida State University

The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

. There, he studied economics and also competed as a varsity track & field athlete. At FSU, he was an honor student and placed in the top 3 at the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...

Track & Field Championships. Before graduating, Crannell was named Humanitarian of the Year for the Social Science College for his service to the community http://www.q2-agency.com/documents/Todd_Crannell_Awards.pdf.

External links

• Interview With The Agent: Todd Crannell by Jason Wulterkens