PepsiCo promoted European unit CEO ENDERSON GUIMARAES to Exec VP/Global Categories & Operations. Guimaraes will "assume the responsibilities" of PepsiCo President ZEIN ABDALLA, who is leaving the company "at the end of December." But Guimaraes "isn't being given the title of president," which INDRA NOOYI held before becoming CEO in '06 (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/2).
EXECS: Learfield Sports promoted Central Region Senior VP BOB AGRAMONTE to Chief Business Development Officer. Univ. of North Carolina Tar Heel Sports Properties GM GARY SOBBA will join Agramonte and VP/New Business Development TOM STEVENS as VP on the team. Meanwhile, Learfield promoted Southeast VP/National Sales CHRIS SANDERS to Central Region Senior VP. Finally, the company named Univ. of Minnesota Gopher Sports Properties Associate GM SCOTT BRUBAKER to Southeast VP/National Sales (Learfield)....The ECHL promoted Exec/Marketing Assistant VALERIE PERSINGER to Manager of Business Operations (ECHL)....Brand and sponsorship agency Advantage Int'l promoted JOSH ELLOVICH to VP (Advantage)....The PGA Tour Wyndham Championship named PGA Tour Inside Sales reps DAN WOODS and MICHAEL MANESIOTIS Sales Associates (BIZJOURNALS.com, 12/1)....L.A.-based ad agency Team One promoted LAUREN VALENCIA to Account Exec and named ERIN WILSON Account Coordinator (THE DAILY)....BP America named GEORGE BAUERNFEIND Head of its Olympic and Paralympic programs, replacing STEVE WILLIAMS, who is retiring (THE DAILY)....Columbia State Univ. AD LOUIS CONNER announced that he will retire after 26 years at the end of the month. CSU softball coach JOHNNY LITTRELL will take the role on an interim basis (TENNESSEAN.com, 12/1)....The Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock named QBOT Corp. Marketing Dir SHEENA HOWELL Dir of Development (UALR).
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