Australian sports analytics company Catapult named former Stats LLC Senior VP/Sports Solutions BRIAN KOPP President of North American Operations. Kopp left Stats in August. He will operate out of Chicago, where he has been based, and open an office there. Catapult focuses on analytics through wearable tech, such as sensors embedded into jerseys, and uses that data to advance injury prevention and knowledge about player wellness. Thirteen NBA teams are among Catapult's client base. While at Stats, Kopp helped broker a deal between that company and Catapult to sell a combined analytics product to NBA teams that advanced beyond Stats' league-level partnership. Catapult also named former U.K.-based analytics company Prozone Managing Dir BARRY MCNEILL to lead its European operations (Eric Fisher, Staff Writer).
EXECS: The Thunder promoted Dir of Community Relations
CHRISTINE BERNEY to VP/Community Relations. She also retains her position as Thunder Cares Foundation Exec Dir (
Thunder)....The Vikings announced Associate Counsel
KIERON FRAZIER is leaving the club after eights seasons to join DLA Piper's Global Sports Media & Entertainment Group (
Vikings)....Auburn Univ. promoted Dir of Athletics Finance
LORI ARTHURS to Athletics CFO (
Auburn)....Oregon State Univ. promoted Dir of Sports Performance
JEFF MACY to Associate AD/Sports Performance (
OSU)....The T'Wolves named
JACOB KOCH,
CHRIS MITKO and
GARRET GARNESS Inside Sales Associates (
THE DAILY)....The Atlantic 10 Conference named NCAA D-I Dir
JACKIE CAMPBELL Senior Associate Commissioner (
A-10)....The Big South Conference named former Furman Univ. men's basketball coach
JEFF JACKSON Deputy Commissioner (
Big South)....The Single-A Midwest League Wisconsin Timber Rattlers named
KIM CHONOS Assistant Manager for Banquets & Events and
JACOB JIRSCHELE Entertainment Dir (
Timber Rattlers).
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