Executive Transactions

Easton-Bell Sports named Linens 'n Things Chief Supply Chain Officer ANTHONY D'ONOFRIO to the newly-created position of COO (Easton-Bell Sports)....AEG named AmericanAirlines Arena VP/Arena Bookings & Marketing ERIC BRESLER VP/Event Booking & Development.  The company also promoted JAY COOPER to AEG Facilities VP/Operations, NATALIE VO BOMBET to Dir of Marketing and PATRICIA SONSINI to AEG Facilities Project Manager (AEG)....The National Golf Foundation (NGF) named GREGORY NATHAN VP.  Most recently, Nathan was Dir of Client Marketing for Golf Magazine and the SI Group (NGF)....The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) elected New Balance President Emeritus & Advisory Board member JOHN LARSEN President (WFSGI)....Octagon Marketing North America named WRC Media Dir of HR BRIAN SMITH Dir of HR (Octagon)....Speed named BRUCE SHAPIRO Coordinating Technical Producer (Speed).

COLLEGE: The Outback Bowl elected BERNIE O’BRIEN to a one-year term as Chair. O’Brien has served on the BOD since ’00 and is the former Chair of the bowl’s Team Selection Committee. Additional officers include Forcon Int’l Corp. President & Founder MIKE SUGAR as Vice Chair; Deloitte Managing Partner-North Florida Practice GWEN MITCHELL as Vice Chair of Hillsborough County; St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission Dir KEVIN SMITH as Vice Chair of Pinellas County; First National Bank Exec VP DALE DIGNUM as Secretary; and United HealthCare of Florida CMO KEN HOVERMAN as Treasurer (Outback Bowl)....The Southland Conference promoted Assistant Dir of Communications JARED FLORREICH to Dir of Media Services and named JIMMY GLENN Assistant Dir of Media Services (Southland).

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