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Int'l Speedway Corp. named former Safeway Exec VP LARREE RENDA to its BOD. Four other BOD members -- LESA FRANCE KENNEDY, LARRY AIELLO JR., J. HYATT BROWN and SONIA GREEN -- also were re-elected. Meanwhile, ISC promoted CFO DAN HOUSER to Exec VP, CFO & Treasurer; Corporate Secretary and NASCAR Chief Legal Officer GARY CROTTY to Exec VP, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief Legal Counsel; Senior VP/Business Development and Chief Digital Officer CRAIG NEEB to Exec VP and Chief Development & Digital Officer; Senior VP & CMO DARYL WOLFE to Exec VP & CMO; VP and Daytona Int'l Speedway President JOIE CHITWOOD to Exec VP; VP/HR LAURA JACKSON to Senior VP/Corporate Services and Chief HR Officer; and Managing Dir & Corporate Controller GREG MOTTO to VP/Finance & Accounting and Controller (ISC).

FOREIGN EXCHANGE: The NFL named IMG Dir of Operations PETER GRIFFITHS NFL COO/Int'l. Griffiths will be responsible for offices in China and Mexico and oversee analysis of growth opportunities in Brazil and Germany. He will report to NFL Exec VP/Int'l MARK WALLER. Griffiths, who was at IMG for 26 years, previously ran the company's Indian Premier League cricket business out of London and Mumbai (NFL).

EXECS: Fox-owned Home Team Sports named NBA Int'l Senior Dir of Marketing Solutions MICHAEL GALANTE VP/Creative Partnerships. Galante will be based in N.Y. and report to HTS Senior VP CRAIG SLOAN. Galante also had a seven-year stint in ESPN's Creative Works department (HTS)....Performance flooring company Dollamur Sport Surfaces named former Schutt Sports CMO DAVE ROSSI Senior VP/Marketing & Retail Solutions (Dollamur).

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