Subway named former Coca-Cola Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer JOE TRIPODI Global CMO, taking over the post "that had been vacant at the sandwich chain since July" when TONY PACE left the company. Subway's sales at its U.S. restaurants "dropped last year for the first time in more than a decade." Tripodi, who had retired from Coca-Cola in February, said that the Subway brand "will take some time to bounce back from the crisis" around former spokesperson JARED FOGLE, who was sentenced last week to more than 15 years in federal prison. Subway ad campaigns "will continue to be led" by Chief Advertising Officer CHRIS CARROLL (WSJ.com, 12/3).
EXECS: SCCA Pro Racing named former IndyCar President of Operations & Competition DERRICK WALKER President, effective Jan. 1. Walker replaces ROBERT CLARKE, who will serve as SCCA Pro Racing BOD Chair (SCCA)....Quicken Loans Arena and the Cavaliers promoted VP/Facility Operations ANTONY BONAVITA to Senior VP/Facility Operations and Senior Dir of Facilities MATTHEW MILLER to VP/Operations (Cavaliers)....Mizuno USA promoted Mizuno Golf VP/Product Management CHUCK COUCH to Corporate VP/Sales (Mizuno)....Van Wagner Sports & Entertainment hired two execs for its recently acquired St. Joseph's Univ. property -- TIM CURRAN as VP and DREW NELSON as Dir of Sales (THE DAILY)....The AFL Philadelphia Soul promoted offensive line coach PHIL BOGLE to GM & Head of Football Operations, succeeding TOM GOODHINES, who is "leaving the organization to take a senior executive position" at the AFL league office in Las Vegas (BIZJOURNALS.com, 12/2)....Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Chair BOB BECK at the organization's Tuesday meeting "announced his resignation," effective Dec. 8 (COURIER-JOURNAL.com, 12/1)....The Aspire Group hired the following for its its Fan Relationship Management Centers: HOWARD TICKER as Manager for Sales & Service and MARK DEBOY as Team Leader/Service (Maryland); JEFFREY TEPLITSKY as Sales Consultant (Canisius); NATHANIEL NIEFFER as Sales Consultant (Siena); SLOAN BUNTING as Coordinator for Sales & Service (Texas); and NIKOLAS KESSLER as Sales Consultant (UC-Irvine) (THE DAILY).
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