Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
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...
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...
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