Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 26, 2025
The Fire named TED GLICK Chief Ticketing Officer and SVP/Stadium Programming & Events. He will assume the role on April 1 and report to President of Business Operations DAVE BALDWIN. Glick -- a 2020 SBJ New Voices Under 30 honoree -- most recently worked at Legends as SVP/Global Sales (Alex Silv...
Boomerang hires new venue head of sales
Boomerang, a startup that’s built a lost-and-found platform for venues like Huntington Bank Field and State Farm Arena, has hired longtime sports exec Jim Willits as its head of sales for arenas, stadiums and venues.
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 25, 2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment named AJ JONES II EVP & Chief Strategic and Corporate Communications Officer. He will oversee MSE’s communications and investor relations strategies, among other functions. Jones will report directly to MSE founder, chair and CEO TED LEONSIS. Jones joins MSE...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 24, 2025
Endeavor Executive Chairman PATRICK WHITESELL is finalizing a deal to acquire WME Football from WME Sports after Silver Lake completes its go-private acquisition of WME parent company Endeavor today, according to sources. The new standalone football agency will be owned by Whitesell personally, thou...
Monumental hires Starbucks' AJ Jones II to lead strategy and communications
Monumental Sports & Entertainment has hired AJ Jones II as EVP and chief strategic and corporate communications officer, overseeing MSE’s communications and investor relations strategies, among other functions. Jones will report directly to MSE founder, chair and CEO Ted Leonsis.
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The United Shore Professional Baseball League announced multiple hires: BROCK APPLEBY as director of corporate partnership sales; KEATON CLELAND and AIDAN SCOTT as corporate partnership coordinators; MATT LOVE and BELLE RIESTERER as sales account representatives; CHE’TRELL PRATT as social media mana...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 21, 2025
The IOC elected KIRSTY COVENTRY as its 10th president as the Zimbabwean sports minister and member of its exec board will succeed outgoing THOMAS BACH. Coventry becomes the first woman to lead the IOC and the first president to hail from Africa. Bach will stay on until Coventry’s term begins on June...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 20, 2025
Oura Health named DR. RICKY BLOOMFIELD Chief Medical Officer. Bloomfield, a former Duke and Stanford hospitalist, also spent the past nine years as the Clinical & Health Informatics Lead at Apple. In this new role, Bloomfield will lead the development and implementation of Oura’s healthcare stra...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 19, 2025
Oak View Group named BRIAN KRAJEWSKI GM of PPL Center in Allentown, Pa. Krajewski joins PPL Center from BOK Center in Tulsa, where he was OVG’s Assistant GM for the venue. Prior to his role in Tulsa, he held several positions with OVG, including GM at Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Omaha and Th...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 18, 2025
Premier League club Crystal Palace Sporting Dir DOUGIE FREEDMAN is leaving the club to take a role overseas. Freedman has been with the club as a player, manager and Sporting Dir -- a post he has been in since 2017 (Crystal Palace).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 17, 2025
The Orioles named TONY MAYHOFF VP/Corporate Partnerships. Mayhoff joins the organization after most recently serving as SVP & Chief Commercial Officer for DALE EARNHARDT JR. and JR Motorsports (Orioles). Mayhoff first arrived at JR Motorsports in 2014 as Business Development Manager and DEJ Mana...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 14, 2025
Octagon promoted DENNIS TRAUTWEIN to Head of Experiences/Octagon Europe and named ADAM BUTTERS Head of Strategy/Octagon Europe. Trautwein, based in Octagon’s Frankfurt office, and Butters, based in Octagon’s London office, will continue to report directly into Octagon Europe Managing Dir JEFF MEESON...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 13, 2025
F1 President & CEO STEFANO DOMENICALI has extended his agreement with Liberty Media in a five-year renewal and will lead the business through 2029. Domenicali took the role in January 2021 and has been instrumental in driving the business to new levels of success (F1).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 12, 2025
The Big East announced that Senior Associate Commissioner/Sports Media Relations JOHN PAQUETTE will retire at the conclusion of the 2024-25 academic year. Paquette has served at the Big East in the lead communications role since 1990 after four years at Seton Hall (Big East).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 11, 2025
Warriors G STEPHEN CURRY will serve as an assistant GM for Davidson’s basketball teams, making him the “first active player in U.S. major professional sports to be in an administrative job with an NCAA team.” MATT BERMAN will also serve as a volunteer assistant GM alongside Curry. AUSTIN BUNTZ will ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 10, 2025
Premier League club Everton has announced “a series of changes at the top of the club” as new owner The Friedkin Group continues its overhaul, headlined by the news that Leeds United CEO ANGUS KINNEAR will take over as CEO beginning this summer. Kinnear -- who has been Leeds CEO since 2017 -- will “...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 7, 2025
The A’s named MARC BADAIN President. Badain, who worked for the Raiders for 30 years before resigning as team president in 2021, had been working for Oak View Group in its “quest to build an NBA-ready arena in Las Vegas.” The A’s previous president, DAVE KAVAL, resigned Dec. 31, with longtime team e...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 6, 2025
The Univ. of North Carolina named RICK BARAKAT Deputy AD & CRO. He is the first to assume the newly created position. Barakat previously spent the last three years at Diamond Baseball Holdings as EVP/Business Development (UNC).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 5, 2025
The CFP selection committee “appointed six new members to the selection committee” starting this fall, including naming Baylor AD MACK RHOADES as the new chair, replacing Michigan AD WARDE MANUEL. Joining the committee will be former Michigan State coach MARK DANTONIO, Maryland AD DAMON EVANS, Middl...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - March 4, 2025
GeoComply named former FanDuel President KIP LEVIN CEO. Co-founder ANNA SAINSBURY will move from CEO to executive chairman. Levin was CEO of interactive horse racing network TVG when its parent company acquired FanDuel in 2018. He later served as President & COO of FanDuel and CEO of FoxBet. Pri...
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For the league to step in and say that a team chose to play one player over another player and that was the wrong decision, I think that's a bit of a slippery slope.-- NBA EVP/Strategy & Analytics Evan Wasch, on the league monitoring player availability but not mandating how coaches rotate players in game.
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