Executive Transactions

Astros VP/Marketing & Strategy KATHLEEN CLARK will leave the team to return to her longtime marketing consulting practice, Carta Marketing Strategy & Solutions. Clark's re-branding effort lasted nine months (Astros)....The Hornets named Saints Communications Assistant  MATT RYAN Dir of Basketball Communications (Hornets)....The Brewers promoted TOM FLANAGAN to Senior Dir/Baseball Operations, MIKE VASSALLO to Senior Dir/Media Relations and VICKI WISE to Accounting Dir (Brewers)....The Dodgers promoted LOGAN WHITE to VP/Scouting, DE JON WATSON to VP/Player Development, VANCE LOVELACE to VP/Player Personnel and RICK RAGAZZO to VP/Professional Scouting (MLB)....The North American Soccer League named former AEG Senior VP & Managing Dir BILL PETERSON Commissioner (NASL)....MLS Chivas USA GM JOSE DOMENE was "let go" by the team's new ownership yesterday (L.A. TIMES, 11/28)....Fox Sports named Grizzlies Senior VP/Broadcast RANDY STEPHENS Exec Producer at FS South, FS Carolinas, FS Tennessee and SportSouth (Fox Sports)....The Back9Network named ROBERT ABBOTT Exec VP/Production & Content Development (Back9Network)....Yavapai College named BRAD CLIFFORD AD effective Dec. 1 (DCCOURIER.com, 11/26)....The Univ. of Kansas named Univ. of Miami Associate AD/Compliance DAVID REED to the same position (KU).

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