Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 26, 2026
Former Fresno State football player and local entrepreneur CHRIS PACHECO will serve as President of Bulldog Sports Enterprises. BSE’s team will be rounded out by VP/General Manager RYAN O’RORKE, Partnership Account Manager NICO PACHECO and Partnership and Broadcast Services Manager ENRIQUE LOERA (Be...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 25, 2026
Nielsen named former SVP/Sales & Head of Turner Sports Digital SETH LADETSKY Head of Global Sports; and NBCUniversal EVP/Digital Sales & Partnerships TREVOR FELLOWS Head of Advertiser/Agency. The org also promoted MATTHEW DEVITT to Head of National. All three will report to Global CRO AMILCA...
Blank hires Mauricio Culebro from Tigres to lead Atlanta United, NWSL team
ARTHUR BLANK has hired MAURICIO CULEBRO as president of soccer for AMB Sports & Entertainment, a role in which he will oversee all aspects of both Atlanta United and Atlanta’s forthcoming NWSL expansion team. The role is Culebro’s first in the U.S. following two decades of experience at the high...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 24, 2026
Longtime MLB executive JIM SMALL is retiring on May 1 after more than 40 years in baseball, both with teams and as president of the World Baseball Classic for the past three years. JEREMIAH YOLKUT will take on leadership of the World Baseball Classic, with his title changing from SVP/Global Events t...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 23, 2026
Mercedes named Team Representative & Chief Communications Officer BRADLEY LORD Deputy Team Principal of the F1 team. Lord joined Daimler in 2011 in a “motorsport-facing communications role,” which saw him “move over to Mercedes’ Formula 1 team in 2013 when TOTO WOLFF became boss.” He was named h...
On the Move: March 23, 2026
The Dallas Wings named CLINTON JENKINS vice president of accounting and finance. Jenkins was director of accounting for the Washington Commanders.
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 20, 2026
Cal State Fullerton AD JIM DONOVAN announced his decision to retire, effective July 31. In recognition of his leadership Donovan has been named VP/Intercollegiate Athletics. Donovan was named AD in Dec. 2012 after spending four years as AD at the Univ. of Hawaii. He had a previous tenure at Hawaii f...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 19, 2026
DAN LEIBOVITZ has been named the sixth commissioner of the Atlantic 10 and will begin his tenure on May 4. Leibovitz replaces BERNADETTE MCGLADE, who announced her retirement in November. He comes to the A-10 from the Big East, where he has served as Senior Associate Commissioner/Men’s Basketball si...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 18, 2026
On Location has hired former NFL exec KATIE KEENAN to lead its Olympics and Paralympics business. Keenan starts Wednesday as EVP/Olympics and Paralympics Hospitality and will be based in N.Y. before relocating to L.A. this summer. She replaces WILL WHISTON, who left On Location last year before the ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 17, 2026
WTSL named WIN Sports Group’s JOSH PYATT Partner. Pyatt, who joined WIN in an undisclosed role last year after leaving WME, will also lead WIN’s new division, WIN Artists, and represent LIV golfer BRYSON DECHAMBEAU. A 2018 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree, Pyatt will help WIN Artists clients -- like SHAQU...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 16, 2026
Spurs Sports & Entertainment named JAMES SUH CFO, reporting directly to CEO RC BUFORD. Suh last served as CFO of the Florida Panthers. Prior to that, Suh spent more than a decade with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment where he held various roles including VP/Finance (SS&E).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 13, 2026
The Professional Tennis Players Association announced on Thursday that Deputy Exec Dir ROMAIN ROSENBERG is being elevated to Exec Dir. Rosenberg replaces AHMAD NASSAR, who had been the PTPA’s Exec Dir since 2022 and will now transition to an advisor role. Rosenberg, who had been the PTPA’s Deputy Ex...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 12, 2026
Playfly Sports named Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures co-founder CHRIS BEVILACQUA to its BOD. His appointment comes on the heels of MLB’s CHRIS MARINAK joining Playfly as President. Bevilacqua, a 2019 SBJ Power Players honoree, is currently serving as a Senior Advisor at Rothschild & Co and a Strateg...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 11, 2026
CAA Sports APAC named JUMPEI HASHIMOTO and BRIANNA SEO as VPs of Partnerships. Based in Tokyo, Hashimoto becomes CAA Sports APAC’s first employee in Japan, while Seo joins as a senior hire in South Korea. Hashimoto spent the majority of his career at Dentsu’s sports division in a variety of project ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 10, 2026
Stage Entertainment named ROEL DE VRIES its next CEO, effective May 1. De Vries assumes the role from ARTHUR DE BOK, who is stepping down as CEO after nine years. De Vries joins the company from City Football Group, where he served as Group COO. He also has over 25 years of experience at Nissan Moto...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 9, 2026
Cal named LINDSEY JONES Associate AD/Business Development. Most recently, Jones served as the NIL GM for Altius Sports Partners, leading strategy and overseeing NIL opportunities for Stanford (Cal).
Careers in Sports: Expansion of women’s sports has positively influenced the sports job market
When an expansion team in a sports league is announced, the first thing people usually think of is the incoming players and coaches. There will be articles posted about which players teams should sign, what their jerseys may look like and predictions about what their record may be at the end of the ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 6, 2026
MLS named DR. GEORGE CHIAMPAS Chief Medical Officer. He succeeds DR. MARGOT PUTUKIAN, who is stepping down after eight years in the role. Chiampas has served as Chief Medical and Safety Officer of the Chicago Marathon since 2007. Since 2014, he has also been Chief Medical Officer for the U.S. Soccer...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 5, 2026
The Univ. of New Mexico has hired 32-year-old RYAN BERRYMAN to be its next AD, making him “one of the youngest ADs among the 136 Football Bowl Subdivision-level programs across the country.” Berryman signed a five-year deal, though financial details were not released. Berryman, who has been serving ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 4, 2026
Univ. of Kentucky AD MITCH BARNHART will retire from his role in June before taking on a new role with the university (Univ. of Kentucky). Barnhart, SBJ’s Athletic Director of the Year in 2019, is the longest-tenured AD in the country, and he “oversaw massive changes in college sports” across 24 yea...
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