Executive Transactions

The NFL Giants named Redskins Senior VP/Sales & Marketing MIKE STEVENS Senior VP & CMO (Giants)....Skate Canada named former Olympic Silver Medalist and TV commentator DEBBI WILKES Dir of Marketing & Sponsorship. The NBG has only five sponsors, down from as many as 16 in ’90 (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 8/19)....Global Spectrum promoted Sovereign Bank Arena Senior Event Manager BEN WEISS to Assistant GM, Operations Coordinator CHRIS BIRD to Event Manager and Event Schedule & Staff Coordinator JESSICA KRUPINSKI to Event Staff & Schedule Manager (Global Spectrum)....Quinnipiac Univ. named Blues Dir of Broadcasting & Communications CHUCK MENKE to the newly-created position of Dir of Athletic Communications (Quinnipiac)....Michelin appointed JEAN-PHILIPPE WEBER Dir of Motorcycle Racing. He will replace NICOLAS GOUBERT at the end of the ’06 MotoGP season (Michelin)....The MISL California Cougars promoted R. JENNIFER ZAMMAR to Senior Dir of Business Development & Corporate Partnerships and CELINA RODRIGUEZ to Community Relations Manager. The team also named RYAN HOPPING Senior Dir of Communications & Broadcasting (Cougars)....The Packers named MIKE SPOFFORD Staff Writer in their PR department, where he will be the primary writer for packers.com (Packers).

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