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SBD/Issue 135/Sports Industrialists
Executive Transactions
Published April 4, 2007
ESPN announced Senior VP JAMES BROWN will assume a new role as Senior VP/New Program Development, reporting to Exec VP/Collegiate Sports CHUCK GERBER. Brown will be involved in supporting the growth and development of ESPN’s college programming and distribution efforts and will oversee cross-platform high school initiatives (ESPN)....Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic promoted Marketing Manager KIM MOSLEY to Affiliate & Marketing Manager (Comcast)....TBS promoted Account Exec JENNIFER BARENDRECHT to West Coast Ad Sales Manager for Turner Sports (TBS).
FRANCHISE: The Packers promoted Dir of Finance VICKI VANNIEUWENHOVEN to VP/Finance and Corporate Counsel JASON WIED to VP/Administration. Vannieuwenhoven becomes the first female VP in franchise history (Packers)....Rams Dir of PR DUANE LEWIS is leaving to become Dir of Communications for the Sugar Bowl (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 4/3).
EXECS: The USOC named MSG VP/Legal & Business Affairs RANA DERSHOWITZ Deputy General Counsel and Managing Dir of Legal & Government Affairs (USOC)....JUSTIN COHEN will return to Octagon to lead the agency’s Australian Athletes & Personalities business. Cohen will be based in the company’s Melbourne office (Octagon)....Soccer United Marketing (SUM) named GIL LARSEN Senior Dir of Business Development and COURTNEY CARTER Business Development Manager (SUM)....The Championship Gaming Series (CGS) named AVP COO ANDY REIF Commissioner. Reif will serve as CEO and will oversee the establishment of the league and its development (CGS)....Team Marketing Report Exec Editor BECKY WALLACE is leaving the company. JON GREENBERG will be handling her duties for the interim (THE DAILY)....The Nationwide Tour named PGA Tour Media Relations Coordinator CHRIS REIMER Media Official. Nationwide Tour Media Official JOE CHEMYCZ has moved over to the PGA Tour (Nationwide Tour)....Chicago-based Engage Marketing named STACY GROBE Account Exec. Previously, Grobe worked at Brener Zwikel & Associates (Engage Marketing).
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FRANCHISE: The Packers promoted Dir of Finance VICKI VANNIEUWENHOVEN to VP/Finance and Corporate Counsel JASON WIED to VP/Administration. Vannieuwenhoven becomes the first female VP in franchise history (Packers)....Rams Dir of PR DUANE LEWIS is leaving to become Dir of Communications for the Sugar Bowl (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 4/3).
EXECS: The USOC named MSG VP/Legal & Business Affairs RANA DERSHOWITZ Deputy General Counsel and Managing Dir of Legal & Government Affairs (USOC)....JUSTIN COHEN will return to Octagon to lead the agency’s Australian Athletes & Personalities business. Cohen will be based in the company’s Melbourne office (Octagon)....Soccer United Marketing (SUM) named GIL LARSEN Senior Dir of Business Development and COURTNEY CARTER Business Development Manager (SUM)....The Championship Gaming Series (CGS) named AVP COO ANDY REIF Commissioner. Reif will serve as CEO and will oversee the establishment of the league and its development (CGS)....Team Marketing Report Exec Editor BECKY WALLACE is leaving the company. JON GREENBERG will be handling her duties for the interim (THE DAILY)....The Nationwide Tour named PGA Tour Media Relations Coordinator CHRIS REIMER Media Official. Nationwide Tour Media Official JOE CHEMYCZ has moved over to the PGA Tour (Nationwide Tour)....Chicago-based Engage Marketing named STACY GROBE Account Exec. Previously, Grobe worked at Brener Zwikel & Associates (Engage Marketing).
Do you have an executive announcement? If so, please send to editorial@sportsbusinessdaily.com.
