In this week's SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, Terry Lefton reports former NHL Senior VP/Int'l KEN YAFFE is "hanging out his own shingle after 19 years with the league." Yaffe described the new Yaffe Sports Ventures as an "agency with capabilities in global marketing, and event marketing, aiming at European companies looking at the North American sports market or vice versa." Meanwhile, NRG has hired Octagon Group Dir CHRISTINE BROWN as Dir of Sports Sponsorship (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 6/11 issue).
EXECS: Oregon state Rep. and Nike footwear developer TOBIAS READ has left the company "to focus on legislative work." Read has been with Nike since February '04, and his last day with the company was May 25 (Portland OREGONIAN, 6/9)....The D'Backs named JAY GASKIN Dir of IT Systems & Infrastructure (D'Backs)....Notre Dame College named Univ. of Tennessee Assistant AD SCOTT SWAIN AD. Swain had been with UT since '06 (Notre Dame)....The V Foundation named former PricewaterhouseCoopers Managing Partner CONSTANCE SKIDMORE to its BOD (V Foundation)....Hibbett Sports named SCOTT BOWMAN Senior VP & CFO, replacing GARY SMITH, who will retire on July 8 (Hibbett)....ProFootballTalk hired DARIN GANTT, a writer who covered the NFL Panthers for the past 14 years for the Rock Hill Herald (John Ourand, THE DAILY).
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