Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions

The Detroit PWHL team named former hockey player MANON RHEAUME GM. Rheaume in 1992 became the first woman to appear in an NHL exhibition game. She joins the team after four years with the L.A. Kings in hockey operations and an 11-year tenure with the Little Caesars AAA hockey program (DETROIT FREE P...

REV Entertainment, the sports and entertainment arm of the Texas Rangers, hired NATHAN WOOLDRIDGE as assistant vice president of business development. Wooldridge was president of Peak Events.

The Canucks named Hockey HOFers HENRIK and DANIEL SEDIN as co-presidents, with Assistant GM RYAN JOHNSON promoted to GM. The Sedins have been working with the Canucks in “various capacities since the spring of 2021.” Johnson joined the Canucks in 2013 and has “moved up the ranks,” from development c...

ESPN has named SVP/Sports Studio & Entertainment MIKE FOSS to succeed retiring EVP and Exec Editor/Sports News & Entertainment DAVID ROBERTS, with the promotion effective immediately. Roberts recently announced he would be retiring at the end of August. Foss had been expected to assume a lar...

The Cotton Bowl Athletic Association named DAVE MARMION President & CEO. He will assume the role on June 29. Marmion succeeds RICK BAKER, who retired after guiding the CBAA for 38 years. Marmion arrives after nine years at the College Football Playoff. He joined the CFP as CFO in June 2017 and a...

Fanatics Commerce named JAMIE GERSCH CMO. She will be based in San Mateo, Calif. and report to Fanatics Commerce CEO ANDREW LOW AH KEE. Gersch most recently served as CMO at Rothy’s and prior to that, she served as SVP & CMO at Old Navy (Fanatics Commerce).

Trail Blazers Assistant GM MIKE SCHMITZ is leaving the team to become GM of the Mavericks, joining the front office of new President MASAI UJIRI. Schmitz arrived in Portland in June 2022. He spent years in international basketball circles as a member of the media before joining the Blazers, first as...

Longtime GMR Marketing exec TODD FISCHER is moving to fellow Omnicom sports/experiential agency Optimum Sports as chief strategy and property officer -- a new position. He’ll start June 1, be based in Optimum’s Chicago offices, and report to Optimum Sports President JEREMY CAREY. Fischer, a 2016 SBJ...

AMB Sports and Entertainment named KEITH MCCLOAT VP & CFO of NWSL Atlanta 2028. Reporting to President of Soccer MAURICIO CULEBRO, McCloat will begin his tenure on May 11. McCloat joins NWSL Atlanta 2028 after spending the past nine years with the Mets, where he most recently served as Senior Di...

Oak View Group promoted KATIE HAREL to Managing Dir/OVG Hospitality. Harel will continue working from the London office and will report to OVG Hospitality President KENNETH GABER. Harel has served as VP/Marketing at OVG International since 2024 (Oak View Group).

The Mavericks have hired MASAI UJIRI as team president in charge of basketball operations. Ujiri, the former Raptors president, will also serve as owner PATRICK DUMONT’s alternate governor. He replaces former president of basketball operations NICO HARRISON (Tom Friend, SBJ).

The Maple Leafs are bringing in Hockey HOFer and former team captain MATS SUNDIN as a “senior executive adviser in hockey operations,” while former Coyotes GM JOHN CHAYKA will take over as the team’s GM (TORONTO STAR, 5/3).

The Big 12 Conference promoted NICK BOWES to chief operating officer; KAURI BLACK to vice president of broadcast and emerging platforms; ANDY LOUTHAIN to vice president of compliance and governance; KATIE RISTOW to vice president of brand and marketing; KEENA LYNCH to assistant vice president of con...

Attorney ALEX NGUYEN, recently certified as an NFLPA agent in October, has joined Clermont, Fla.-based NIL and NFL agency McRae Sports Group as an agent and director of legal affairs. In addition to his new role, he continues to run Chavez & Nguyen, P.C., the Dallas firm he co-founded in 2015 wi...

Puma named MARK LANGER CFO. Langer was previously CFO at beauty retailer Douglas. Prior to that, he spent over 17 years at Hugo Boss serving as CEO from 2016 to 2020 and as CFO from 2010 to 2017. He will succeed MARKUS NEUBRAND on May 1. Neubrand will leave the company on Sept. 30 (Puma).

Sportradar named SAMEER DEEN COO, effective May 18. He will report directly to CEO CARSTEN KOERL. Most recently, Deen served as Chief Commercial Officer & President at Entain. Previously, Deen served as Chief Digital Officer and SVP/Digital at Univision Communications (Sportradar).

The FAST channel ReachTV has named RACHEL JACOBSON as its next CEO. Jacobson was previously Drone Racing League President. She will report to BEN BERENTSON, CEO of Owned Media at Stagwell, which owns ReachTV. Jacobson also spent 21 years at the NBA and was an SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree in 2010. As p...

The FAST channel Reach TV has named Rachel Jacobson as its next CEO. Jacobson, who was previously Drone Racing League President, will look to scale the 10-year-old travel media network’s commercial footprint and grow content partnerships. She will report to Ben Berentson, CEO of Owned Media at Stagw...

Former NHLer ALEXANDER STEEN will become Blues GM on July 1, with current GM DOUG ARMSTRONG transitioning to become the team’s president of hockey operations through 2029 following a previously announced transition plan (Blues).

The Univ. of Oklahoma named JARED BOYD as the women’s basketball program’s first GM. Boyd spent the 2025-26 season as GM at Texas Tech (THE OKLAHOMAN, 4/23).