Telemundo named aviation consultant EMILIO ROMANO President, effective next month. He will oversee the entertainment, news and sports divisions, Telemundo Studios, Telemundo Int'l, Telemundo's Digital Media group and mun2. Romano replaces DON BROWNE, who left the net in June (MIAMI HERALD, 9/22)....Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic named NHL Manager of Digital Media & Analytics BRETT SULLIVAN Digital Sales Manager and MICHAEL BEAL Traffic Coordinator. The net also promoted JOANNA SHAPES to Programming Coordinator and ALLEN POPELS to Newsroom Coordinator (CSN Mid-Atlantic).
GETTING IN THE GAME: The New York/New Jersey 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee named ANDREW LEE General Counsel. He previously worked for Proskauer Rose LLP and the Jets (THE DAILY)....USA Football named JIM ELIAS Senior Dir of Finance, MATT DELUZIO Pacific Mountain Regional Manager, JENNIFER PHELPS Associate General Counsel, CHRIS BEELBY Senior Software Engineer, JORDAN KENDRICK-LOHMAN Event Services Coordinator, AKASH KULKARNI Data Warehouse Engineer, MORGAN MURRAY Digital Project Management Coordinator and CHELSEA SMITH Membership Services Coordinator (USA Football).
EXECS: JEFF LADD has opened Sports Insurance Specialists LLC, a full-service sports and special events insurance brokerage based in Ft. Wayne, Ind. (Sports Insurance Specialists)....aim Marketing Solutions promoted MIKE VANCZA to Senior Manager of Activation and ANDY WILLIAMS to Dir of Business Development. The firm also named OLLIE DEAN Account Dir (THE DAILY)....The Univ. of North Florida named Seton Hall Assistant AD for Compliance MELISSA BAXENDINE Assistant AD for Compliance and Senior Woman Administrator (UNF)....The Univ. of Northern Iowa named Washburn Univ. Associate AD KERRY DICKERSON Assistant AD for Development (UNI)....The Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville promoted TAYLOR FLATT to SID (UAH).
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