Toli Makris

Toli Makris is a sports entrepreneur and co-founder of Urbanball, the global street-football brand he built alongside world champion Sean Garnier to elevate underground talent into a professional ecosystem. With a background rooted in combat sports, football, and large-scale event production, Toli has spent over a decade building sports IPs and turning grassroots communities into commercially scalable leagues.

He is the founder of EX Sports, a Web3-driven fan-engagement and tokenized gaming company. Under his leadership, EX Sports has evolved from a niche idea into a multi-vertical platform spanning mobile gaming, athlete tokenization, prediction gaming, and global sport-tainment experiences. Toli’s focus has always been simple: merge real-world sports culture with digital ownership and scalable tech.

Now based in the UAE, he operates across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Tokyo, and the US—developing global sports ecosystems that fuse physical venues, gaming, and blockchain into one unified model.