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Comcast promoted D'ARCY RUDNAY to CCO, reporting to Exec VP DAVID COHEN. Rudnay will work on special projects with Chair & CEO BRIAN ROBERTS (John Ourand, THE DAILY)....F1 team Williams Chair ADAM PARR has resigned. Parr joined the team in '06 as CEO and moved up to Chair in ’10 (AP, 3/26)….The Fiesta Bowl named former Viasoft Chair & CEO STEVE WHITEMAN Chair. Whiteman joined the Fiesta Bowl Committee in ’94 and was elected to the BOD in ’03. The BOD also added the following members: Kansas State Univ. AD JOHN CURRIE, Univ. of Arizona College of Fine Arts Dean and Faculty Athletic Rep JORY HANCOCK, eEye Digital Security CFO & Secretary TYLER HANSON, Nautilus Inc. Governance Committee Chair RICHARD HORN, U.S. Airways Exec VP & CFO DEREK KERR and UniSource Energy Corp. and Wellpoint Inc. Dir RAMIRO PERU (Fiesta Bowl)….The Big Ten Network named D’Backs Communications Manager TINA MANZO to the same position. BTN also hired DEREK REINGLASS as Communications Coordinator (BTN)….Ohio State Univ. named Univ. of Tennessee Associate AD/Compliance BRAD BERTANI Assistant AD/Compliance (Ohio State)….Ketchum Sports & Entertainment announced the creation of an office in Brazil. The local team will be headed by KSE Brazil Exec Dir VANIA CIORLIA (KSE).

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