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SBD/Issue 217/Sports Industrialists
Executive Transactions
Published August 8, 2006
Russell Chair & CEO JOHN WARD has retired following the company’s merger
with Berkshire Hathaway. Ward, who had been CEO since ’98, was the only board
member who voted against the transaction (BRANDWEEK, 8/7 issue).
EXECS: Oakley named DCS Group Managing Partner DAVID SCHULTE President & CEO of subsidiary Oliver Peoples. Schulte succeeds LARRY LEIGHT, who will stay with the company as Chair and Creative Dir. Schulte becomes the subsidiary’s first president since Oakley acquired it in February (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/8)....General Sports & Entertainment named Live Nation VP/National Sales CHRIS FOY President of its new division, General Sports Alliances (GSA), which will provide sponsorship sales, naming rights and sponsorship consulting services (General Sports & Entertainment)....PA SportsTicker named NBA Dir of Application Development & Data Services CHRIS MATTIA Exec Dir of IT (PA SportsTicker)....Ilitch Holdings named Olympia Entertainment President RANDY LIPPE senior exec in charge of arena development at Olympia Development (DETROIT NEWS, 8/5)....Dolphin Stadium named Redskins Stadium & Event Manager AARON HAVILAND Dir of Operations (Dolphin Stadium).
LEAGUES: THOMAS LOMANGINO is stepping down as Dir of the Maryland Racing Commission Laboratory in College Park, Maryland, after 18 years to become Dir of the U.S. Equestrian Federation Equine Drug Testing & Research Laboratory in Ithaca, New York (Baltimore SUN, 8/5)....The Int’l Hockey Federation named ARJEN MEIJER Communications Manager. Meijer has previously worked with the Int’l Volleyball Federation, World Roller-Hockey Federation and NYC2012 (AROUND THE RINGS, 8/5 issue).
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EXECS: Oakley named DCS Group Managing Partner DAVID SCHULTE President & CEO of subsidiary Oliver Peoples. Schulte succeeds LARRY LEIGHT, who will stay with the company as Chair and Creative Dir. Schulte becomes the subsidiary’s first president since Oakley acquired it in February (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/8)....General Sports & Entertainment named Live Nation VP/National Sales CHRIS FOY President of its new division, General Sports Alliances (GSA), which will provide sponsorship sales, naming rights and sponsorship consulting services (General Sports & Entertainment)....PA SportsTicker named NBA Dir of Application Development & Data Services CHRIS MATTIA Exec Dir of IT (PA SportsTicker)....Ilitch Holdings named Olympia Entertainment President RANDY LIPPE senior exec in charge of arena development at Olympia Development (DETROIT NEWS, 8/5)....Dolphin Stadium named Redskins Stadium & Event Manager AARON HAVILAND Dir of Operations (Dolphin Stadium).
LEAGUES: THOMAS LOMANGINO is stepping down as Dir of the Maryland Racing Commission Laboratory in College Park, Maryland, after 18 years to become Dir of the U.S. Equestrian Federation Equine Drug Testing & Research Laboratory in Ithaca, New York (Baltimore SUN, 8/5)....The Int’l Hockey Federation named ARJEN MEIJER Communications Manager. Meijer has previously worked with the Int’l Volleyball Federation, World Roller-Hockey Federation and NYC2012 (AROUND THE RINGS, 8/5 issue).
