Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
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...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 21, 2026
NWSL club Angel City FC co-founder JULIE UHRMAN “will step down from her position as CEO at the end of March” and is “set to transition into a new role as Principal Advisor to team ownership” beginning April 1. She will also “continue to serve on the ACFC board.” Uhrman founded ACFC in 2020 alongsid...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 20, 2026
World Sevens Football named CLAIRE BLOOMFIELD Chief of Football Affairs & Governance. Bloomfield has spent the past five years serving as the European Club Association’s (now European Football Clubs) first Head of Women’s Football. Bloomfield has nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, ac...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 19, 2026
2026 PGA Championship Dir RYAN OGLE is “stepping down” from the role ahead of the event at Aronimink Golf Club. Ogle in an online post wrote that he has “accepted a new opportunity that will allow he and his family to settle permanently after relocating eight times over the last 13 years with the PG...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 16, 2026
ESPN announced that VP/News DAVID KRAFT will retire in April. Kraft was named to his current position in May 2021, having previously served as the Senior Dir & Executive Editor of ESPN’s news operations since October 2015. He will stay on until April to help with the transition of his responsibi...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 15, 2026
Excel Sports Management named Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal International Commercial Lead DANNY PAISER VP & Managing Dir/International Properties. Paiser has served with Global Playmakers, Kin Partners, IMG, City Football Group, and Soccerex (Leaders).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 14, 2026
Former LA28 execs DAVE MINGEY and HAYLE CHUN have left their respective roles to launch Onboard Sports Advisory. Mingey, an SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree in 2009, has been SVP/Head of Commercial Partnerships for U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Properties -- the joint venture between LA28 and the USOPC -- f...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 13, 2026
The Bruins promoted TD Garden President & Bruins COO GLEN THORNBOROUGH to the role of EVP & COO of the franchise. Thornborough’s new role will see him work with team President CAM NEELY, focusing on bringing business and hockey operations into closer alignment. Thornborough will retain his c...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 12, 2026
The Ladies European Tour named TOM PHILLIPS its next CEO. He replaces former CEO ALEXANDRA ARMAS, who announced last June that she was “stepping down in the fall.” Phillips, the current Dir/Middle East for the DP World Tour, “starts the new role April 6” (GOLFWEEK, 1/9).
On the Move: Jan. 12, 2026
Excel Sports Management named JENNIFER ENDICK employment attorney; MATTHEW LYPOWY vice president of finance and controller; KHALIL WILKES counsel; MATT MILLER sports medicine manager; MADALENA FRERE senior account manager/brand marketing; KATIE SMITS director of brand marketing; and CHRISTINA GAUL s...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 9, 2026
ESPN and Disney Entertainment promoted JIMMY ZASOWSKI to President/Platform Distribution. Zasowski, who joined the company in 2009, was previously EVP/Platform Distribution Strategy. He will report to ESPN Chair JIMMY PITARO and Disney Entertainment co-chairs ALAN BERGMAN and DANA WALDEN. Meanwhile,...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 8, 2026
ANDY STINCHFIELD has joined sales and marketing agency Team Playmaker as VP/Sales. He will be based in N.Y. The move reunites him with Team Playmaker principals MATT GRANDIS and ROSS MELTZER, who worked with Stinchfield at the former SJX Partners/CSM Sport & Entertainment (since acquired by Wass...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 7, 2026
Fox Sports President & COO MARK SILVERMAN announced that he will be stepping away from his current role in the coming months and will move into a consulting role with the company. Silverman -- a multiple-time SBJ Most Influential honoree -- joined Fox Sports in 2018 from the Big Ten Network, whe...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - January 6, 2026
Commissioner STEVE PHELPS is leaving NASCAR ahead of the 2026 season, according to an official announcement from the sanctioning body this morning. Phelps -- an SBJ Most Influential 125 honoree -- had been at NASCAR since 2005 and was promoted from president to commissioner last year. No successor h...
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