The Int'l Hot Rod Association named MIKE DUNN President. Dunn "has been the face of the NHRA on ESPN for the past 14 years." The move "comes as part of a reorganization" engineered by new IRG Sports & Entertainment Vice Chair & CEO CHRIS LENCHESKI (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/8 issue)....N.Y.-based consulting firm GlideSlope named GrouponLive Head Of Sports Partnerships & Business Development MICHAEL SHAW to lead the company's global revenue initiatives (THE DAILY)....The Reds named former manager LOU PINIELLA Senior Adviser to Baseball Operations (CINCINNATI.com, 2/5)....The Blue Jays named former manager ERIC WEDGE Player Development Advisor (Blue Jays)....The Aspire Group promoted EMILY EMBREE to Senior Sales Consultant Leader for its Louisiana Tech Fan Relationship Management Center. Aspire Group also hired the following at Fan Relationship Management Centers: MATT HARMAN as Sales & Service Consultant and BRANDON MOYER as Database Marketing & Analytics Coordinator (Colorado State); RICHARD KIRKLAND as Group Consultant (Kansas); KEVIN HILL as Sales Consultant (Maryland); JOHN QUIGLEY, DEREK MURRAY, RYAN AGAN, PETER STEPHENS and CHRIS O'SHEA as Service & Retention Consultants (Texas); JUSTIN MORELLI as Sales & Service Manager (Toledo); JEFFREY KOWALEK as Senior Sales Consultant (Siena); and NATE SAYLES as Data Analyst for Strategic Consulting & Research (Aspire).
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