Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 17, 2026
Learfield promoted MIKE GORDON to VP/Corporate Partnerships. Gordon has been serving as GM for Northwestern Sports Properties since 2019. He previously spent a decade with the AHL Chicago Wolves after serving with the Arena Football League’s Chicago Rush and DePaul (SBJ).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 16, 2026
Las Vegas Sands Corp. promoted Mavericks Governor PATRICK DUMONT from COO & President to CEO & Chair. Dumont, who has been with Sands Corp. since 2010, will succeed ROBERT GOLDESTEIN “effective March 1.” The promotion “does not impact Dumont’s Mavericks role” (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 2/13).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 13, 2026
St. Joseph’s Univ. AD JILL BODENSTEINER is stepping down from her position on April 15 to accept the role of Horizon League Commissioner. Bodensteiner has been in the leading role since 2018. Exec Senior Associate AD ERIC LAUDANO will serve as interim AD while a search is conducted (St. Joseph’s Uni...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 12, 2026
The SEC named NFL VP/Football Development Strategy ROMAN OBEN Associate Commissioner for Football. Oben will serve as the conference’s senior leader for football operations, policy, and stakeholder engagement, reporting directly to Commissioner GREG SANKEY (SEC).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 11, 2026
After spending nearly three decades with the D-backs, KENNY FARRELL has left the organization to become the COO of the Royals. Farrell had just been promoted to SVP/Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of the D-backs following the departure of CULLEN MAXEY to the Royals as president of business op...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 10, 2026
SeventySix Capital named KENNETH SHROPSHIRE and MICHAEL MORRIS Strategic Advisors. Shropshire and Morris will focus on advisory client acquisition, growth, and exec leadership and governance for professional and college sports execs and sports companies. Shropshire is a Professor Emeritus at The Wha...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 9, 2026
Collectors has hired NFL VP/Global Fan Engagement & DTC Product Marketing JOSH RABENOVETS as its next CMO. Rabenovets has been with the NFL since 2020 and also made stops with EA Sports, ESPN and Pepsi. He will report to Collectors CEO NAT TURNER. Rabenovets started at Collectors last week and w...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 6, 2026
CHUS BUENO has been appointed as the new CEO of Euroleague Basketball, replacing PAULIUS MOTIEJUNAS. Bueno, who will be “tasked with improving communication with the NBA and FIBA,” received “unanimous support” in a vote of shareholders (Leaders).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 5, 2026
The PGA of America has filled its vacant CEO role less than a month after DEREK SPRAGUE stepped down, with UnitedHealth Group CMO TERRY CLARK set to take over the position next month. Clark will officially assume the role on March 2. KERRY HAIGH, the PGA’s chief championships officer who’s been the ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 4, 2026
NWSL club Bay FC has hired LAFC Chief Business Officer STACY JOHNS as its new CEO. She will formally begin her new role on March 2 ahead of the team’s third season in the NWSL. Johns, a 2023 SBJ Game Changers honoree, spent 15 years working in finance for the Colts before making the move to LAFC as ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 3, 2026
Longtime sports venue executive DOUG THORNTON is stepping into a new role at Legends Global, becoming the company’s President, Venue Planning Services. He will transition from his job leading the company’s North America venue management division, which he held since Legends Global acquired ASM Globa...
Women’s sports executive transactions
Togethxr named MAHIN AMINIAN SVP/legal; BEN MEYERS as head of development; BRANDON LIM is director/social media; and HOPE BARKER and KATIE RIETZKE as senior managers/brand partnerships.
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - February 2, 2026
Veteran 49ers President AL GUIDO is now the organization’s CEO, assuming the title owner JED YORK had held since 2010. Guido has been with the 49ers since 2014, first serving as COO before becoming president in 2016. Nothing on the team’s org chart will change. Guido will continue to report to York,...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 30, 2026
The PGA Tour named DAVE MACK Exec Dir of the Cadillac Championship. Mack began his career with the Heat (2008-12) before joining the Dolphins in 2012, where he “set an NFL sales record and later led sales for the Pro Bowl in Orlando.” Following Hard Rock Stadium’s 2017 renovation, he was appointed D...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 29, 2026
League One Volleyball has appointed former Nike and Jordan Brand exec SANDRA IDEHEN as the first commissioner of LOVB Pro. Idehen succeeds founding President ROSIE SPAULDING and will work alongside her during Season 2 to ensure continuity before Spaulding transitions into an advisory role later this...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 28, 2026
Former Lightspeed Venture Partners General Partner NICOLE QUINN and former CAA exec MICHAEL BLANK have partnered to launch new venture capital firm Connect Ventures, which was originally a joint venture between CAA and New Enterprise Associates. Quinn and Blank will serve as Managing Partners and co...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 27, 2026
Playfly Sports has hired longtime MLB exec CHRIS MARINAK to serve as the company’s new president and report directly to CEO CRAIG SLOAN. Marinak, an SBJ Forty Under 40 Hall of Famer who spent 17 years in the MLB office, left the league last month and most recently served as its chief operations and ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 26, 2026
The Univ. of Oklahoma named ROGER DENNY VP/Intercollegiate Athletics Programs & AD, succeeding JOE CASTIGLIONE. Denny most recently served as Deputy AD & COO with the Univ. of Illinois. RANDALL STEPHENSON, who has served as Chair & Special Advisor to the President for OU Athletics since ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 23, 2026
LOVB announced that Chief Marketing and Communications Officer STEPHANIE MARTIN is joining the LOVB San Francisco ownership group and will serve as Team President. Martin will oversee all business operations for the team, which will debut in January 2027. Martin’s career notably includes roles with ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 22, 2026
Former USA Swimming President & CEO TIM HINCHEY officially announced that he has joined Canucks Sports & Entertainment as the organization’s CRO. He fills a role vacated by TERRY KALNA in 2024, who has since become COO of the ECHL. Prior to his seven-year stint with USA Swimming, Hinchey ser...
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