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Independent Sports & Entertainment Hires Jason Spector From Ketchum

Independent Sports & Entertainment has hired JASON SPECTOR as VP/Marketing, Baseball. Spector will be responsible for securing off-field revenue and branding opportunities for ISE’s MLB and MiLB clients, which includes Tigers Ps JUSTIN VERLANDER and JORDAN ZIMMERMANN, Tigers 1B MIGUEL CABRERA, Rays P CHRIS ARCHER and Mariners DH NELSON CRUZ. He will report to ISE Baseball CEO MARK PIEPER and ISE CMO CHRIS GRANCIO and will work out of the agency's L.A. office. Spector will start on Monday. He most recently was a talent buyer for Ketchum Sports & Entertainment, where he negotiated and managed sports talent deals for the agency's brand clients, including Hershey's, Nestle, Kimberly Clark, and General Mills. It is the second hire ISE has made in which the agency tapped a brand-side exec to work for athletes on the other side of the table. Grancio, who the company hired earlier this month, formerly worked at adidas, where he was GM of Global Basketball. 

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