Disney promoted Disney Parks & Resorts Chair TOM STAGGS to COO. Staggs "beat out" Disney CFO JAY RASULO to become the company’s No. 2 exec, a post that "makes him the favorite" to replace Chair & CEO BOB IGER in '18. All of Disney’s divisions, including ESPN, "will now report jointly" to Staggs and Iger, "who has run Disney since 2005 without a second in command" (N.Y. TIMES, 2/6). Iger has said that he "will step down at the end of his current contract." Staggs "essentially has three years to prove to Disney’s board of directors that he is the best successor." Sources said that Staggs was the favorite because he is "more outgoing and charismatic" than Rasulo, plus "more in the mold" of Iger (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2/6).
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER: The Boston 2024 organizing committee named City of Boston Chief of Operations JOE RULL Chief Administrative Officer. Rull "joins one of the most politically connected teams ever assembled for a supposedly nonpolitical venture." Rull said that part of his job "will be to use his deep knowledge of the neighborhoods as a liaison between Boston 2024 and the community." That role was "overdue to be filled" (BOSTON GLOBE, 2/6).
EXECS: MSG Co. named
GREGG SEIBERT Vice Chair. He will work closely with MSG's exec team on advancement of sports, media and entertainment businesses. Seibert also will continue in his role as Cablevision Systems Corporation Vice Chair (
MSG)....The Packers named Rams Dir of Sales & Marketing Partnerships
CHAD WATSON Dir of Sales & Business Development (
Packers)....The Rockies promoted Senior Dir of Advertising, Marketing, Publications & Social Media
JILL CAMPBELL to VP/Communications & Marketing. The club also named
Padres Manager of Minor League Baseball Operations
WARREN MILLER Dir of Communications. The new structure brings together the club's baseball and business communications functions under the direction of one department (
Rockies)....UMass named UMass Foundation CEO & General Counsel
ROBERT GOODHUE interim AD and named its 13-member search committee to find former AD
JOHN MCCUTCHEON's successor. Associate Chancellor
SUSAN PEARSON is to serve as interim Deputy AD during the search (
MASSLIVE.com, 2/5)....Scout Sports & Entertainment named
DANA HOROWITZ Production Coordinator;
DAN CONTI Associate Dir of Events;
JASON SHAPIRO Account Coordinator;
DINO KOUTSOURIS Account Supervisor;
BRENNA FLYNN Account Coordinator; and
JOSH GROPPER Associate (
SSE)....Performance Sports Group named BMO Exec VP and Head of Strategic Management & Corporate Marketing
JOAN DEA to its BOD (
PSG)....Creative agency Roundhouse named former Nike Action Sports & Outdoor Creative Dir
JOHN MARTIN to the same position (
OREGONLIVE.com, 2/3).
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