Executive Transactions

Pony Int’l named JIM STROESSER CEO. Most recently, Stroesser was Senior VP & GM of Global Footwear at Quiksilver and Roxy. Prior to that, he served as Converse VP/Sales, Oakley National Sales Dir and Nike Senior Sales Exec (Pony).

MEDIA: The Tennis Channel Exec VP/Programming & Marketing BRUCE RIDER is leaving the net, which has restructured its senior management team so that VP/Production LARRY MEYERS, VP/Programming JENE ELZIE, VP/Marketing FAYE WALKER, VP/Web & New Media LYNN FORBES and VP/Operations KEITH MANASCO assume control over their respective departments and report directly to Chair & CEO KEN SOLOMON (The Tennis Channel)....FSN South VP & GM JEFFREY GENTHNER has added oversight of Turner South, which has officially been acquired by Fox Cable Networks (FSN)....Time Inc.’s Transworld Media named SCOTT DICKEY President. Previously, Dickey was President of K2 Licensed Products (AD AGE, 5/1 issue)....NBC Sports promoted ROB SAWYER to Manager of Program Planning. Sawyer had been Exec Assistant to NBC Universal Sports & Olympics Chair DICK EBERSOL (NBC)....Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic named Redskins Radio Network Sales Manager PAUL GORGEI Sports Sponsorship Manager (Comcast).

BACK TO SCHOOL: MALCOLM MORAN was named inaugural Knight Chair of Sports Journalism & Society in the College of Communications at Penn State. Previously, Moran served as a journalist at USA Today, the N.Y. Times, Newsday and the Chicago Tribune (Penn State).

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