The Buccaneers hired BRIAN KILLINGSWORTH as CMO. Killingsworth currently is serving as Rams VP/Marketing & Brand Strategy. The Buccaneers have had a tough time keeping recent CMOs -- JASON DIAL resigned after the first game of the '13 season to join Circuit of the Americas, and his replacement, AILEY PENNINGROTH, lasted only a few months when she resigned a few games into the '14 season. The team hired search firm Korn Ferry to assist in the search for a new CMO (Daniel Kaplan, Staff Writer).
EXECS: Woodbine Entertainment Group President & CEO NICK EAVES announced Thursday he will step down March 31, "ending a 20-year run with the company." Woodbine Chair JIM LAWSON "will take over on an interim basis" (CP, 1/15)....The Int'l Tennis HOF & Museum named former U.S. Bowling Congress Exec Dir STU UPSON COO (Tennis HOF)....Paciolan named Fandango Chief Technology Officer DIMA VOLOVIK to the same position (Paciolan)....Bacardi this week removed the interim tag from CEO MIKE DOLAN, the former Chair & CEO of IMG (THESPIRITSBUSINESS.com, 1/14)....The NYRA named Calder Race Course Stakes Coordinator & Assistant Racing Secretary SEAN PERL Assistant Racing Secretary for Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course (NYRA).
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