Executive Transactions

Orin Smith Resigns From Oakley BOD

Stride Rite Corp. named RICHIE WOODWORTH as President of Tommy Hilfiger Footwear, reporting to newly appointed Stride Rite President & COO RICHARD THORNTON. Most recently, Woodworth was NHL Enterprises President and prior to that, was President & CEO of the Greg Norman Collection, a division of Reebok, for eight years (Stride Rite)....Oakley announced that Starbucks President & CEO ORIN SMITH has resigned from the company's BOD, reducing the number of Oakley directors to five (Oakley)....FSN's "BDSSP" named ROBERT LIFTON as Exec Producer. Most recently, Lifton was ESPN's "SportsCenter" Coordinating Producer (Fox)....RONI SORGI was named Account Exec for Time4 Outdoors' Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and SHOT Business magazines (Time4 Outdoors)....Champions Tour player D.A. WEIBRING has agreed to act as the player consultant for the new Tournament Players Club at Craig Ranch, currently under construction north of Dallas in McKinney, TX (PGA Tour).

WELCOME BACK: The Knicks yesterday named Nets Senior VP and former Knicks F WILLIS REED as Special Basketball Advisor, a "newly created position." Reed "started immediately last night" by watching the Knicks' summer-league team practice. While Reed "will do community relations and run the alumni relations program, [he] also will be part of the basketball operations staff in a role that will include college scouting, evaluating/recruiting free agents and advising on the draft." Reed spent 15 years with the Nets, "the last three in which he was a community relations/marketing executive" (N.Y. POST, 7/11).

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