Sharks Sports & Entertainment formally named Hornets Senior VP/Sales & Database Marketing FLAVIL HAMPSTEN Exec VP and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. Hampsten was part of this year’s SBJ/SBD "Forty Under 40" class. SSE also named KORE Software VP/Best Practices NEDA TABATABAIE VP/Business Intelligence. Tabatabaie spent eight years with MLSE prior to KORE. There also were several promotions at SSE, including the following: Dir of Marketing & Digital Media DOUG BENTZ to VP/SSE Marketing & Digital; Associate Counsel MAGGY CARLYLE to Counsel; Dir of Media Relations SCOTT EMMERT to VP/Media Relations & Broadcasting; SAP Center Dir of Booking & Events STEVE KIRSNER to VP/Booking & Events; and Assistant GM JOE WILL to VP & Assistant GM. Will also retains his role as AHL San Jose Barracuda GM (SSE).
EXECS: PlayOn! Sports promoted VP/Sales CHRISTOPHER YOUNG to Senior VP/Sales for the NFHS Network and VP/Sales OWEN SHULL to Senior VP & GM for PlayOn! Sports Properties (PlayOn!)....Penn State named Bradley Univ. AD MICHAEL CROSS Assistant AD/New Business Development (BUFFALONEWS.com, 8/3)....Austin Peay Univ. named Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce AD RYAN IVEY to the same position (Texas A&M-Commerce)....MSG Co. named iHeartMedia President of Entertainment Enterprises JOHN SYKES to its BOD (MSG)....Callaway Golf named Diamond Foods Exec VP and Chief Strategy & People Officer LINDA SEGRE to its BOD (Callaway)....Horizon Sports Management Dir COLIN MORRISSEY "has formally split" from the agency. Morrissey "was officially No. 2 at Horizon, and founded the agency" with Managing Dir CONOR RIDGE. Morrissey's exit "has been on the cards since last summer" when his client, golfer GRAEME MCDOWELL, "left Horizon" (LONDON TIMES, 8/2).
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