Executive Transactions

Rogers Promotes Mohamed To CEO

Rogers Communications Group President & COO NADIR MOHAMED has been promoted to Rogers Communications CEO, "elevating the long-time telecom executive to the position left open by the passing" of late President & CEO and Blue Jays Owner TED ROGERS, according to Grant Robertson of the GLOBE & MAIL. A source said that the decision "has been finalized internally, and an announcement on the appointment is said to be imminent, possibly within the next week or two." The company reportedly is "working on an arrangement that would give Mr. Rogers' son EDWARD ROGERS a key title at the top of the company, striking a careful power balance between the two executives" (GLOBE & MAIL, 3/16).

EXECS: Battery Interactive named Davie Brown Talent East Coast Senior Client Manager ROSS PARK as Dir of Sales & Marketing (Battery Interactive)....City of Vancouver GM of Olympic & Paralympic Operations DAVE RUDBERG, who has been leading the city's preparations for the '10 Olympic and Paralympic Games since '04, will leave his post this spring (VANCOUVER SUN, 3/14)....Former MSG Entertainment Dir of Live Events & New Business Development MARK SELVA has launched MJS Live Inc., a N.Y.-based agency that will provide fully integrated live entertainment marketing, production management and consulting services from strategy to execution (MJS)....AFL Utah Blaze President JASON JONES has "left the team to pursue other business interests," which leaves the franchise without any full-time employees. Jones will lead strategic development efforts for Utah-based Nutraceutical Corp. Blaze Owner JOHN GARFF now will be the team's "point-man with the league" (DESERET NEWS, 3/14).

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