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Facebook named former "League of Legends" player STEPHEN ELLIS E-Sports Strategic Partnerships Manager "in an effort to take on Twitch," the game streaming platform purchased by Amazon last year. Ellis will report to Facebook Head of Games Partnerships for North America GUY CROSS (SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL, 6/17 issue)....Stats LLC named former SAP Global Head of Product, Sports & Entertainment RISHI DIWAN VP/Product Management (Stats)....Conference USA named NFL VP/Football Operations & Compliance MERTON HANKS Senior Associate Commissioner, with responsibility for "managing all of the league's operations for football and baseball" (HATTIESBURGAMERICAN.com, 6/23)....Cal State-Long Beach named Gold Medal-winner MISTY MAY-TREANOR Dir of Volleyball Operations. She will "start in the first week of July" and "will be the head coach for the women's volleyball team as well as a newly created beach volleyball team" (Long Beach PRESS-TELEGRAM, 6/23).

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