Alan Nero, Managing Director of Octagon’s Baseball division, represents over 100 Major League players, Field Managers and Hall of Fame Members.
His professional career started at Northwestern Mutual Life, where he worked as a financial representative. He simultaneously coached the local high school cross-country team while attending Springfield College. In 1969 Alan returned to Rhode Island where he started a financial services business and became the head wrestling coach at the University of Rhode Island.
In 1977 Alan refocused his energy and attention on his financial service clients and developed innovative ways to insure athletes, helping sports teams indemnify themselves against the possible disability and/or death of its star player(s). This initiative bridged a gap between teams and players and set a 35-year career as a sports agent in motion. Alan continues to achieve recognition for his innovations in the sports management world. The Sporting News voted Alan as the 6th Most Influential Behind-the-Scenes Person, in the annually published “Top 100 Most Powerful Figures in Sports.” Most recently, Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal recognized Alan as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Agents in Sports.
