Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 10, 2026
FuboTV appointed former Disney exec ALISA BOWEN as its next CEO. Bowen will succeed co-founder DAVID GANDLER, whose employment as CEO “terminated effective Thursday.” Gandler, who is “also resigning from the board,” has led the company for the past 11 years. Bowen has nearly three decades of experie...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 9, 2026
Project B named former NBAer LANDRY FIELDS Head of Men’s Basketball. Fields will work alongside Chief Basketball Officer ALANA BEARD. Fields, who played five seasons in the NBA, launched his exec career with the Spurs, progressing from college scout to GM of the G League Austin Spurs. He most recent...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 8, 2026
Legends Global named TOM ALEXANDER and JENN SONICK as VPs of Live Entertainment. Alexander previously served as Honda Center VP/Programming for OC Vibe while Sonick previously served as Dir/Programming at ATG Entertainment, overseeing talent buying for Kings Theatre and the Emerson Colonial Theatre ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 7, 2026
U.S. Figure Skating named MIA CORSINI BAILEY COO. Corsini Bailey returns to the organization after serving as Club Dir at The Skating Club of Boston. Prior to this, she spent nearly a decade at U.S. Figure Skating, most recently as Dir/Events (U.S. Figure Skating).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 6, 2026
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. Exec Chair & CEO JAMES DOLAN is “handing over the day-to-day ownership responsibilities” for the N.Y. Rangers to his son QUENTIN, who will assume the titles of Rangers President, COO & Alternate Governor. Rangers President & GM CHRIS DRURY “will now rep...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 2, 2026
GENE SYKES will continue to serve as chairman of the USOPC after a board vote this week. Sykes will serve in the role through 2030. The USOPC board also voted for a second four-year term for BUBBA CUNNINGHAM, the longtime North Carolina AD who is stepping down this summer, and elected Purdue Univ. P...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - July 1, 2026
NWSL club Bay FC is elevating EVP LISA GOODWIN-SCHARFF to the role of Chief External Affairs Officer. She will be responsible for leading the club’s communications across business and sporting, public affairs, stakeholder engagement and investor engagement and comms strategy. She will also serve as ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 30, 2026
Houston-based consultancy Deutser launched its sports division named Deutser Sports. The new division will be led by KARA ALLEN, the former Chief People, Impact & Belonging Officer at Spurs Sports & Entertainment (Irving Mejia-Hilario, SBJ).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 29, 2026
Serie A club AC Milan named MASSIMO CALVELLI CEO. Calvelli replaces GIORGIO FURLANI, who was “fired by U.S. owner, RedBird Capital Partners, last month.” Calvelli will continue to serve as CEO International at RedBird Development Group and Operating Partner at RedBird Capital Partners. He was previo...
On the Move: June 29, 2026
The Dallas Mavericks hired JAMES RUTH as chief marketing officer. Ruth held the same post with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 26, 2026
The Commanders promoted VP/Public Affairs KIRTAN MEHTA to Chief External Affairs Officer. The team also named SUSAN SCHAEFFLER Exec Dir/Youth Academy, ERIC KING Head of Technology and REECE FISCHER Head of Strategy & Analytics (Commanders).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 25, 2026
Sony Pictures Entertainment is making a $100M investment in Cosm and taking a minority stake in the immersive venue operator. SPE Chairman & CEO RAVI AHUJA will join Cosm’s board (Rob Schaefer, SBJ).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 24, 2026
Nike named Pfizer CFO DAVID DENTON to the same role. He assumes the position on Aug. 17 and is expected to succeed MATTHEW FRIEND, who will “stay on through Sept. 4 to support the transition.” Denton joined Pfizer as CFO in May 2022. Before that, he served stints as CFO of Lowe’s and CVS Health (WAL...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 23, 2026
Virginia Tech has hired longtime FAU AD BRIAN WHITE to the same position. White replaces WHIT BABCOCK, who served 12 years in the position and is “remaining with Tech for three years in an emeritus role.” White, a 2023 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree, has spent the past eight years at FAU and led the sch...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 22, 2026
The Penguins named RON FRANCIS Special Advisor/Hockey Operations. Francis most recently spent the past seven seasons with the Kraken, joining them in 2019 as their first GM in franchise history, holding that role until 2025 when he was promoted to President/Hockey Operations (Penguins).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 19, 2026
Seven Seven Six, the venture capital firm co-founded by ALEXIS OHANIAN, has acquired collegiate sports trading card company Onit. Longtime sports executive EVAN PARKER -- an SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree in 2021 and the current CEO of Mantel, a collectible-focused social media platform launched by Ohan...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 18, 2026
Owl AI, a member of SBJ’s latest 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies cohort, has hired JAY PRASAD as company CEO. Prasad replaces JOSH GWYTHER, a former AI exec with Google Cloud, who now shifts into an advisor role after helping to stand up the company when it launched officially last summer. ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 17, 2026
Sponsorship intelligence provider SponsorUnited has hired its first Chief Commercial Officer in TIM BRAZ, who starts the new position this week. Braz comes to S.U. after two-plus years at consumer intelligence company Azira, where he was also Chief Commercial Officer. Braz has also been CRO at Publi...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 16, 2026
NWSL club Angel City FC appointed AMY TAYLOR as CEO, effective July 27. Taylor takes over the role from team co-founder JULIE UHRMAN, who announced in January that she was stepping down and transitioning to an advisor role. She joins the club from beverage company Zevia, where she served as CEO for ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - June 15, 2026
Snap promoted ANMOL MALHOTRA to Global Head of Content & Partnerships. Malhotra, a 2023 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree, has been working at Snap since 2015 across various sports partnerships roles, most recently as Global Head of Sports & Media Partnerships (Leaders).
Sponsored content
Quote of the Day
Before the Super Bowl in 2025, we met with our leadership and said we didn’t want to do something that had already been done. We identified Jameis that year as someone who was, by every metric we could count, the number one NFL player on social, just for his virality, his moments and his Jameisisms.-- Fox Sports Exec Dir of Digital & Social Nick Rago, on why the network chose N.Y. Giants QB Jameis Winston as a roaming, social-first correspondent for its World Cup coverage.
PODCAST
SBJ TV
PROPERTIES
