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SBD/Issue 114/Sports Industrialists
Executive Transactions
Published March 6, 2007
Nike named PepsiCo VP/Corporate Strategy & Development GREG DINGES VP/Corporate
Development, as well as CFO of the company’s Affiliate Brands Group. Dinges will
report to Nike Affiliate Brands Group President LEE BIRD and Nike CFO DON
BLAIR (Nike)....FSN promoted Fox Sports VP/Marketing DAN DIEFFENBACH
to Senior VP/Marketing. Dieffenbach will report to FSN Networks President RANDY
FREER (FSN). ... TRACY SCHOENADEL, formerly Exec Dir of ESPN
SportsPoll and VP of TNS Sport, has joined Octagon in a consulting capacity, where
she will work with VP/Research SIMON WARDLE to develop and conduct proprietary
sports and entertainment marketing research (THE DAILY).
FIGHT CLUB: In this week’s SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, John Ourand reports the Int’l Fight League (IFL) named the following to oversee its TV ventures: JAY LARKIN Exec Producer, CRAIG JANOFF Dir and DARREN EWING Documentary Dir. Larkin ran Showtime’s boxing department before leaving in November ’05 “as a casualty of budget cuts.” Janoff was Dir of “MNF” for 13 years, while Ewing “is best known for directing reality series,” such as MTV’s “The Osbournes” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 3/5 issue).
EXECS: L.A.-based Del Ray Management Partner & Managing Dir DAVID KINGSDALE has been elected to the BOD of The Giving Back Fund (The Giving Back Fund)....Lowe’s Motor Speedway (LMS) Dir of Governmental Relations & General Counsel CHRIS KOURI has been named to a three-year term on the 15-member North Carolina state advisory panel of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The panel helps the foundation better understand issues affecting North Carolina and opportunities for more effective grantmaking (LMS)....Dover Int’l Speedway (DIS) named Hockessin (DE) Police Athletic League Assistant Program Coordinator JOSH RUGGIERO Corporate Account Exec (DIS).
FRANCHISE: ANGELO SCIALFA has joined the WNBA Liberty’s Marketing Partnerships department after spending 12 years at Penn State Sports Properties (Liberty)....The Vikings named JASON COHEN to their Legal & Business Affairs department (Vikings)....The independent Atlantic League Long Island Ducks named MIKE SOLANO Media Relations Coordinator (Ducks).
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FIGHT CLUB: In this week’s SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, John Ourand reports the Int’l Fight League (IFL) named the following to oversee its TV ventures: JAY LARKIN Exec Producer, CRAIG JANOFF Dir and DARREN EWING Documentary Dir. Larkin ran Showtime’s boxing department before leaving in November ’05 “as a casualty of budget cuts.” Janoff was Dir of “MNF” for 13 years, while Ewing “is best known for directing reality series,” such as MTV’s “The Osbournes” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 3/5 issue).
EXECS: L.A.-based Del Ray Management Partner & Managing Dir DAVID KINGSDALE has been elected to the BOD of The Giving Back Fund (The Giving Back Fund)....Lowe’s Motor Speedway (LMS) Dir of Governmental Relations & General Counsel CHRIS KOURI has been named to a three-year term on the 15-member North Carolina state advisory panel of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The panel helps the foundation better understand issues affecting North Carolina and opportunities for more effective grantmaking (LMS)....Dover Int’l Speedway (DIS) named Hockessin (DE) Police Athletic League Assistant Program Coordinator JOSH RUGGIERO Corporate Account Exec (DIS).
FRANCHISE: ANGELO SCIALFA has joined the WNBA Liberty’s Marketing Partnerships department after spending 12 years at Penn State Sports Properties (Liberty)....The Vikings named JASON COHEN to their Legal & Business Affairs department (Vikings)....The independent Atlantic League Long Island Ducks named MIKE SOLANO Media Relations Coordinator (Ducks).
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