London Olympic Park Legacy Co. Chair MARGARET FORD announced that she will “step down after the Games in September.” Ford is responsible for ensuring that the US$11.1B publicly funded Olympic Park is “properly used after London 2012.” Ford has been a “key figure in negotiations with West Ham United and 15 other potential bidders over the future” of the Olympic Stadium (THETIMES.co.uk, 2/8).
SOCCER MOVES: MLS promoted CAMILO DURANA to Senior Dir of Partnership Marketing, JAN GREENBERG to Senior Dir of Community Relations, COURT JESKE and MARCO LICEAGA to Senior Dirs of SUM Int'l, JOSH NEIER to Senior Financial Dir, CRAIG MCCARTHY to Dir of Partnership, Marketing & Operations, LINDSAY NEVINS to Dir of Special Events, SIMON BORG and NICK FIRCHAU to MLS Digital Senior Editors, SCOTT RIDELL to MLS Digital Senior Producer, JUDY CONCHA to MLS Digital Club Services Manager, DONNA MARTINEZ to Manager of HR & Administration, IXZCHEL SALGADO and LINA STAROPOLI to Manager of Partnership Marketing, JESSE PERL to Partnership Marketing Account Exec, OSCAR ORIONDO to Senior Accountant and DAVID SCHOLL to Staff Accountant (MLS).
EXECS: The Asian Tour has named MIKE KERR as CEO, effective March 16. Kerr has worked the last 12 years with ESPN STAR Sports, most recently as VP/Affiliate & Multimedia Sales (Asian Tour)....The Bobcats promoted SETH BENNET to Senior VP/Marketing, FLAVIL HAMPSTEN to Senior VP/Ticket Sales & Database Marketing, KAY LOWERY to Senior VP/HR, MICHAEL WANDELL to Senior VP/Partnership Marketing, B.J. EVANS to Exec VP/Communications, JOSH ROSEN to Dir of Communications and ANDRE WALTERS to Exec VP/Legal Affairs. The Bobcats also named JEROME HUBBARD Communications Coordinator (THE DAILY)….Strategic Marketing Affiliates named Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp. Consumer Products Manager NEIL VANDEGRIFT Dir of Licensing (SMA)….Univision appointed Discovery Communications President & CEO DAVID ZASLAV and Grupo Televisa President of TV & Content JOSÉ BASTÓN PATIÑO to the company’s BOD (Univision).
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