About Vanta Development Group

Vanta (www.vanta.gg) is an esports infrastructure organization primarily working with K-12 schools. We provide, competition, coaching, platform and events. We help organizations create safe gaming experiences and teach participants skills that can lead to career opportunities and college scholarships.

Meet Our Internship Mentor: Ed Lallier

Ed Lallier – Co-Founder & Chief Corporate Development Officer @ Vanta Development Group, Inc.

Responsible for developing all revenue generating activities at Vanta. Ed has 20+ years of experience in Business Development, Sales Leadership, Strategic Partnerships and Sponsorships. Serial Entrepreneur: Co-founded three organizations. Passionate about creating value and solving client’s toughest challenges. Ed is Married with two children and is based in Hawaii..

Internship duties and responsibilities

Business Development Internship

Business development Internship will be focused on learning esports industry business models, sales skills and applying learnings to create innovative assets that can be commercialized. Interns will first learn from Ed about Vanta business model, basic sales skills, conduct competitor and industry research, and update college recruiting database. Following this, interns will select high value projects to work on and present final product/report to Vanta executives. Interns will be mentored and trained by instructor; Ed Lallier. 

Possible projects: Includes instruction on Go to market strategy and project planning/budgeting

• Grant research for HI/TX/NY
• Create an Esports educator summit 
• Create All girls gaming program
• Create workforce development program 
• Custom Project: identify large problems in industry and create a solution that Vanta can implement and add value to target market

•         4 positions available

Internship details

• • Internship will be a group activity. Each week has a selected Team leader. That team leader will make sure the team executes on completing tasks by deadline the following week.
  • Will use Discord for interweek communication, and google meet for weekly meetings
  • Internship will be remote
  • Attire: casual

• Interns: age 16+

• Each intern will have to have access to a computer to do market research. 
• 3 Deliverables during internships: Scholastic Esports research report, Professional Esports Organization research report, GTM strategy report for select Vanta ICP.

Any Intellectual property, proprietary information received or created is Vanta Property only and must not be used or reused in any kind following internship.

Interns should be able to:

• Communicate written and verbal
• Know Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Have interest in sports, esports preferred
• Prefer candidates that are inquisitive and ask questions
• Prefer candidates that are hard workers, competitive and driven
• Prefer candidates that are entrepreneurial and resourceful

2026 Internship Schedule:

2026 Spring: Most work will be virtual.  Team meetings on Mondays 3:30pm – 5pm starting in March

Internship wrap-up (Virtual): TBD

*Schedules are tentative and are subject to change. Interns will be required to work 48 hours in the Spring 2026.

Internship Meeting Locations: Meetings will be held weekly remotely on google meet or discord