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About M3 Sports

We help organizations grow revenue in sports and entertainment.

A Calgary sponsorship sales and business development company, built by people who spent decades selling for professional sports.

Our focus is strategic branding and audience reach: fitting the right advertiser to your sports organization. Strong relationships with local and national advertisers give us unique ways to showcase your brand, product or service.

We bring big-league sales discipline to the teams, leagues, events and causes that make Western Canadian sport what it is.

Portrait of Mark Stiles, founder of M3 Sports

Founder story

Mark Stiles

Founder & President

  • 25+ years in media and professional sports
  • 23 years with Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation
  • 8 years as Senior Director of Sponsorship Sales for the Flames, Hitmen, Roughnecks and Stampeders
  • Managing Director, Corporate Partnerships & Marketing, Western Canadian Baseball League
  • Board member, WCPHSF: Director of Donor & Stakeholder Relations
  • Board member, Junior A Calgary Canucks, hosts of the 2025 Centennial Cup

Mark started with the Calgary Hitmen in September 1997, the team’s start-up days, as a play-by-play broadcaster and, in Brent Barootes’ words, a “corporate sales magician”. Over 23 years with Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation he rose to Senior Director of Sponsorship Sales, leading the sponsorship and fulfilment team for the Flames, Hitmen, Roughnecks and Stampeders for his last eight years there.

Through M3 Sports he brings that pro-level approach to amateur, junior and collegiate sports, events and community programs. Today he is also Managing Director of Corporate Partnerships and Marketing for the Western Canadian Baseball League, Canada’s premier collegiate baseball league, whose alumni include more than 150 MLB draft picks.

Mark sits on the board of the Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation as Director of Donor and Stakeholder Relations, and on the board of the Junior A Calgary Canucks, proud hosts of the 2025 Centennial Cup. He has extensive experience with local, regional and national advertisers and brands.

“Mark’s passion and enthusiasm is unmatched.”

Mike MooreVP & Alternate Governor, CSEC (Calgary Hitmen & Roughnecks), CSEC

The team

Meet the team

Portrait of Al Molnar, Chief Revenue Officer at M3 Sports

Al Molnar

Chief Revenue Officer

  • Runs M3’s day-to-day operations
  • 8 years as Director of Marketing & Business Development, Calgary Flames and Hitmen
  • 16 years as President of Northstar Sports & Entertainment
  • Former Vice President, Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA)
  • Media career at the Calgary Sun, CKRX radio, CTV Lethbridge and CTV Network Calgary
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A veteran businessman and entrepreneur, Al is Chief Revenue Officer at M3 Sports and runs the agency day to day.

After graduating with honours from Lethbridge College’s Communication Arts program in 1989, Al started in media as an account executive at the Calgary Sun in 1991, then moved through CKRX radio, CTV Lethbridge and CTV Network Calgary. He spent eight years as Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Calgary Flames and Hitmen, a year as Vice President of the Calgary Olympic Development Association, and 16 years as President of Northstar Sports & Entertainment, a Calgary sponsorship and production company.

Outside M3, Al has developed real estate on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast since 2013 and sits on the board of an international association of agents, developers and bankers there. He has volunteered as President of the Calgary Redbirds Baseball Club and Vice President of the Midnapore Minor Hockey Association.

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