Executive Transactions

SHERRI HULTGREN has joined HOK Sport + Venue + Event, where she will focus on collegiate athletic facilities. Hultgren, who spent the past eight years at HNTB, has worked on master plans, studies, renovations and designs for collegiate clients including Purdue, USC, Michigan State, Ohio State, Minnesota, Northern Arizona, Kentucky and Oregon State (HOK).

APPAREL: Crocs Footwear named Flextronics Int’l Senior VP RON SNYDER CEO and Classic Sport President CARYN ELLISON CFO (Crocs Footwear)....Nike CIO GORDON STEELE has left the company, with no successor named (BIZJOURNALS.com, 1/13).

MEDIA: CBS SportsLine.com named Exec VP/Product Development & Operations STEPHEN SNYDER Senior VP & GM and VP & General Sales Manager TOM ARRIX Senior VP/Sales & Client Services (CBS SportsLine.com)....Golf Digest named Golf Magazine Exec Editor PETER MORRICE Senior Editor (Golf Digest).

OLYMPICS: The USOC named Controller WALTER GLOVER interim CFO (AP, 1/14)....SUSIE O’NEILL, an IOC member in Australia since ’00, has resigned from the IOC and its Athletes’ Commission (IOC).

FRANCHISE: The Twins named Dir of Communications BRAD RUITER Dir of Corporate Communications (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 1/14). The Twins also promoted REMZI KIRATLI to Dir of Team Travel & Baseball Communications (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 1/13)....The Astros promoted Dir of Professional Scouting PAUL RICCIARINI to Senior Dir of Player Personnel and Dir of Minor League Administration DAVID GOTTFRIED to Senior Dir of Baseball Operations (Astros).

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