Mark Kilpatrick
Twitch
Founder, consultant, gaming dad

I build gaming businesses and help others run theirs.

Five years building esports studios, leagues and youth programs in Connecticut, and a consulting practice that puts that operating experience inside other organizations. Most nights this November I am live on Twitch, building the stream in the open.

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Mark Kilpatrick at the Affinity Esports studio in Newtown
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Live most nights this November

Rocket League with my kid, Counter-Strike with friends, and nights where I just work with chat open. The overlays, the camera, the whole setup is being built one stream at a time, on stream. Follow and the ping tells you when I am on.

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Consult

Leadership, management and operational consulting

Anchored in gaming and esports: studios, leagues, teams, youth and collegiate programs, and the companies that serve them. I work embedded alongside founders and leadership teams to turn priorities into organized, accountable execution, and I stay through implementation. Outside the industry by decision, not by default.

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In their words

What colleagues say

Mark is the kind of leader who makes you want to roll up your sleeves and help. In my time as a community and board member of Affinity Esports, I’ve watched him pour real care into every program, every drop-in, every kid and parent who shows up. Bright, charismatic, deeply driven — and quite possibly the nicest person you’ll ever meet.

Matt TurnerGroup Director, Head of Digital Transformation, LSEGBoard of Directors, Affinity Esports

What Mark has built through Affinity Esports is far more than a gaming and esports space. Mark has developed an entire community for students and their families, a place where they can belong, feel safe, and explore career opportunities in fun and engaging ways. Mark is motivated by seeing a need and connecting the people and resources needed to make it happen.

About

Where this comes from

Serial founder. I co-founded a financial technology company that made the Inc. 5000 two years running, and Forbes put me on its 30 Under 30 list. In 2021 Emily and I co-founded Affinity Esports and grew it to three Connecticut studios and a mobile program. I co-founded Connecticut Esports, now forming as a nonprofit, and I teach gaming and esports management at Post University.

I studied graphic design at Barry University, where I also played Division II soccer. I have raised money for the Jordan Porco Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, Barry University and Movember, and as part of a team more than $100,000 for blood cancer research through a semi-annual charity soccer tournament. I grow my hair long, cut it, and donate it to help those in need.

I am a father of two who game. That is most of why any of this exists.

Co-founder and CEO

Affinity Esports

Connecticut's organization for healthier gaming: club teams, camps, content and community.

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Co-founder

Connecticut Esports

A statewide esports organization for schools, colleges and the industry, forming as a nonprofit.

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Faculty

Post University

Gaming and esports management, in the room with the students who are next.

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Selected content

Talks, podcasts and features

Movember supporter
One Cause

This November: Movember

Movember raises for men's health: mental health, suicide prevention, prostate and testicular cancer. I have taken part a few times, and this year it is the cause the stream carries while I build the whole setup in the open. The figure sits here, live from the campaign. The button goes to my Movember campaign page on Tiltify; nothing passes through this site.

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Donations go to Movember on its own page. Nothing passes through this site.
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Contact

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Consulting, speaking, a podcast, a collaboration on stream, or a question about any of it. Email is fastest.

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[email protected] (541) 400-0448 Built in Connecticut
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