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Executive Transactions

The Jockey Club Media Ventures Exec Producer KEN ADELSON "has been fired by the organization one year after The Jockey Club underwrote a series of televised races" on FS1. Adelson "was let go several weeks after the Sept. 14 conclusion of this year's 'Jockey Club Tour on Fox' series" (DRF.com, 10/1)....The ATP U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships named ERIN MAZUREK Tournament Dir, replacing PETER LEBEDEVS. Mazurek is the "first female tournament director of the Indoor in the event's nearly 40-year existence" (Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 9/30)....The College of Holy Cross named KEVIN HAAS Dir of Social & Digital Marketing (Holy Cross)....The Double-A Eastern League Akron RubberDucks named MARK CARLOZZI and JENNA REED Ticket Sales Execs, COLIN TULLEY Assistant Dir of Food & Beverage, SAM DANKOFF Manager of Suites & Picnics, and BROCK CLINE Community Events & Special Events Manager. The team also promoted PETE NUGENT to Box Office Manager and LESLIE WENZLAWSH to Controller (RubberDucks)....The USA Hockey Foundation named MIKE O'CONNOR Dir of Major Giving (USAH)....GPS Industries appointed former PGA of America CEO JOE STERANKA to its Advisory Board (GPS)....Bears GM PHIL EMERY was elected to the nonprofit Citizens United for Research for Epilepsy's BOD (CURE).

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