Harlan J. Werner

President/CEO

Harlan Werner’s career as an entrepreneur began at the age of twelve when he started buying and selling baseball cards at local card shows. As the sports collectibles industry took off, so did Harlan’s businesses and, later in life, he would eventually be nicknamed “Card boy” by George W. Bush.

Right out of high school, Werner founded Sports Placement Service Inc., a sports licensing and marketing company to market and capitalize retired athletes, and to this day, runs the agency as CEO. Loyalty and trust were and remain the cornerstones of the business.

Dubbed the “Heavyweight of hustle” by the Los Angeles Times, by the age of twenty, Werner was booking legendary athletes for appearances. Muhammad Ali and wife Lonnie entrusted him at a young age to help market and reintroduce Ali to a corporate market place, both domestically and internationally. His loyalty and friendship with Ali never waned and Werner would eventually serve as an honorary pallbearer at his memorial. In fact, it was at the urging of Muhammad Ali and wife Lonnie that Harlan began working with Mike Tyson. They saw that he was having a rough time and thought Werner could help him. Werner did and was responsible for the redemption of Mike Tyson.Werner executive produced the movie "Tyson" and consulted on"One Night in Vegas" for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. He was also instrumental in Tyson being castin “The Hangover.”

Werner has since represented some of sports most iconic legends including Jim Brown, Roy Campanella, and Don Drysdale.Werner is currently doing work for Sandy Koufax, Joe Namath, John Riggins, Fernando Valenzuela, Clayton Kershaw and Kershaw's Challenge,the estate of Sonny Liston,and the estate of Howard Bingham.Werner is also in pre-production for a docu-series about Howard Bingham’s life, working alongside director Alfonso Cuaron and producer Riccardo Romani. Over the past five years, Werner has created and made deals with Sylvester Stallone, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Alden Ehrenreich,and Teri Hatcher.

Werner remains a long-time sports memorabilia collector and dealer as a partner and founder of Art of the Game, a chain of high-end collectible stores inside of arenas and stadiums. He has consulted on or handled the sale of many pieces of iconic pop culture memorabilia including; the sale of a Honus Wagner T206, 1927 New York Yankees World Series ring and team signed photo, the World Series rings of Del Webb, the shoes that Muhammad Ali wore in the epic first Frazier fight, a Babe Ruth game worn jersey, the original artwork of Andy Warhol and Leroy Neiman, and countless others.

A lifetime of putting clients’ interests before his own, the respect and relationship with the people Werner works with and for is paramount. Seeing his clients succeed and receive proper recognition for their efforts means everything.Werner remains extremely loyal to his clients, and chooses to do business with those whom he feels transcend their respective sport because of their personality, character, and charisma. He continues to represent a distinguished and prominent group of the world’s most famous and iconic legends of the game.

In 2021 Werner took the next step in his storied career by founding The Memorabilia Network. The company has long been his ultimate vision for the best way to serve the industry and the clients therein. Under Werner’s direction, The Memorabilia Network will be the place where truly “the collectors are the stars.”

Dan Nelles

COO/ Sports Department Head

Dan Nelles was raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,and developed a love of sports and sports memorabilia at a very young age. Having been born into a family of sports lovers, as well as one with entrepreneurial spirit,Dan started his first sports memorabilia company at the age of 16. From there, he went on to aid in the development of Toronto sports memorabilia institutions Legends of The Game and Pro League Sports Collectibles. After graduating and receiving his B.A. in Communication Studies from The University of Windsor,Dan earned a position at The Sports Network (TSN)–Canada’s equivalent of ESPN. In 2011, Dan took his enthusiasm, expertise, and over then-25 years of experience in the sports memorabilia marketplace to Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, CA, as he was welcomed in the position of Sports Specialist.While at Julien’s, Dan created and grew the sports department from ground zero into a department that generated over $12 Million dollars in auction sales by the time he left the company in June of 2017. During Dan’s career at Julien’s he had the pleasure of producing auctions for legendary athletes including Evander Holyfield, Elgin Baylor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the most well-known soccer player in history, Pelé. In addition to athletes, Dan also worked on auctions involving numerous celebrities and musicians, most notably Ringo Starr of The Beatles. After leaving Julien’s, Dan focused his attention on his own appraisal business working with private clients, as well as being contracted with large appraisal firms. Since 2017 Dan has personally appraised over $20 Million dollars’ worth of personal property for personal clients and contracted projects. While he can’t name certain clients due to confidentiality agreements,he can state that he has done work in the past few years for multiple multi-Grammy winning legendary artists, sports champions from multiple sports, sports executives, team owners, Academy Award winning actors, Hollywood studio heads, and founders of major Fortune 500 companies. In 2021 Dan brought his wealth of expertise to The Memorabilia Network when he accepted the position of Chief Operations Officer.

Mike Gutierrez

Director of Appraisals

Mike’s complete adult career has been immersed in pop culture. Mike appeared for 10 seasons as an on-air appraiser of sports, entertainment, pop culture & general collectibles on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow. After being employed at CBS TV, Universal Studios & ABC TV, it gave Mike a strong foundation in the entertainment world, working his way up as a television executive for Dramatic Series Development, creating series ideas with writers, directors & producers. Mike retains some of his longtime contacts which helped result in the handling of Sylvester Stallone’s movie memorabilia collection, “STALLONE – THE AUCTION.”

As early as the late 1960s, Mike began buying, playing, trading & selling “old” guitars before the business eventually blossomed into the “vintage guitar” business. This groundwork plus his auction background gave him the opportunity to become Consignment Director for Heritage Auctions Vintage Guitar department for 10 years. 

Collecting sports memorabilia since his first card show in 1979 had grown to such a passion that Mike switched into the sports memorabilia business and has since coupled sports, entertainment & musical instruments into his expertise. Mike also started his own auction company, Mike Gutierrez Auctions, and ran it successfully for 10 years. Along the way, Mike has appraised some important collections & authenticated autographs for PSA & JSA. Since Joining Heritage Auctions in 2006, Mike brought in numerous auction highlights in other areas such as coins, jewelry, movie posters, silver, watches, animation art & wine.

It is with this solid background in entertainment, sports memorabilia, musical instruments, auctions, consulting, authentication, as well as with USPAP accredited appraisal services, that Mike was welcomed in the role of Consulting Sports and Pop Culture Expert, at The Memorabilia Network. 

Britt Johnson

After many years of successful agency, freelance and in-house public relations and marketing work in the fields of fashion, beauty and luxury spirits, Britt Johnson founded Mediaplacement Entertainment Incorporated in September 1998.

Mediaplacement was established with Mr. Johnson’s vision of providing consumer brands with creative ways to reach their consumers by utilizing various entertainment platforms. Disciplines include Product Placement & Brand Integration (film, television, cable and OTT), Public Relations, Special Events, Talent Influencer Endorsements and Partnerships. Early clients included: Smashbox Cosmetics, Donna Karan, Prada, Neutrogena, Safilo USA, Luxottica, Johnson & Johnson, HBO, CNBC and LVMH.

Mediaplacement has grown to become one of the premiere marketing firms in the entertainment industry with an enviable reputation in fashion, beauty and luxury spirits. Current clients include; Diageo, Enterprise Holdings, Kahala Brands, UPPAbaby, Revlonand HBO. The boutique style Mediaplacement created allows Mr. Johnson to work closely with each of his clients and oversee all creative programs. He is very involved in daily client management and personally oversees the Diageo and Revlon accounts.

Mr. Johnson’s contributions to his clients represent a major success story that has spanned more than 20 years.

Dennis Gilbert

Dennis Gilbert is President and founder of The Gilbert Group, a preeminent resource for serving high-net worth individuals and families across sports, entertainment, and business. He consistently ranks in the top 1% of life insurance professionals nationwide in the United States.


Dennis began his career as a minor league baseball player, after which he pursued a career in life insurance and taught continuing education estate planning to members of the CPA Society in the State of California. These CPAs, who were primarily entertainment business managers, gave Dennis entry into the Hollywood community through which he acquired an A-list, entertainment industry clientele.


Dennis excelled at developing life insurance policies and creating wealth protection, and he knew these skills could help professionals and their families achieve better financial success. As his insurance business continued to thrive, he took on an additional career as a sports agent. Dennis broke contract records and had a big influence in transforming the salary structure of professional baseball forever.


As baseball's leading agent, Dennis set new standards for creating player contracts. He personally negotiated over 1,000 contracts, broke salary barriers and achieved unprecedented contractual success for players such as Jose Canseco, Bobby Bonilla, Barry Bonds, George Brett, Ricky Henderson, and Mike Piazza


In 2000, Dennis returned his focus full-time to life insurance and estate planning strategies. Today he leads The Gilbert Group and continues to teach educational workshops to high-end financial, legal and accounting organizations.

Regina Miller

Regina is highly skilled in achieving excellent fundraising success for a diverse array of clients, from global charities to innovative start-ups. Regina has advised nonprofit institutions, foundations, and corporations on their development strategies and donor cultivation. Regina has a deep understanding of generating critical revenue sources through creative, strategic partnerships, board development, individual giving campaigns, major gifts initiatives, and events. Always results-oriented, she has conceived, produced, and fully executed event concepts around award-winning TV shows and Films, poker tournaments, conferences, and galas that have generated millions of dollars in revenue for various nonprofit organizations.

Regina served as Chief Development Officer at the Geffen Playhouse, Director of Partnerships of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, and as International Project Director for the Museum of Tolerance. Regina has consulted for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Water.org, Eastern Congo Initiative, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, amfAR, Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation, The Clippers Foundation, Kershaw’s Challenge, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Kevin Love Fund, Headspace, College Track LA, Universal Music Group, Chris Paul Family Foundation, NBPA, The DEA Educational Foundation, Born This WayFoundation and the Clinton Foundation. She currently proudly serves as Executive Director for Ava DuVernay's social impact/nonprofit, ARRAY Alliance.

Dan Romanelli

Dan founded and built Warner Bros Consumer Products into a world class organization with many of the best licensing executives in the industry. Dan also founded the Warner Bros Studio Stores and spearheaded some of the most heralded licensing campaigns ever including Looney Tunes, Space Jam, Batman, Superman, Scooby Doo and Harry Potter. Dan generated over $100 billion dollars at retail worldwide in the 23 years he was at Warner Bros.