Puma North America President & GM JAY PICCOLA will retire effective mid-'17 after nearly 20 years with the company. He will remain non-Exec Dir to Puma's BOD (Puma)....TD Garden and the Bruins named Monumental Sports & Entertainment VP/Strategy & Research JOSH BRICKMAN VP/Business Strategy (THE DAILY)....Virginia Tech and AD WHIT BABCOCK have "agreed in principle to extend his contract" through June 30, 2024. Babcock "began his role as Tech's AD on March 1, 2014, with a five-year contract" (Hampton Roads DAILY PRESS, 11/2)....The Clippers named MLB Corporate Sponsorships Account Exec JORDAN SHERMAN Dir of Partnership Development (THE DAILY)....Performance Sports Group named DAN SILLS Exec VP/Hockey and MIKE THORNE Exec VP/Baseball & Softball. Thorne replaces TODD HARMAN, who left the company in October. PSG also named JENNIFER HUGHEY Senior VP/Supply Chain. She replaces AMIR ROSENTHAL (PSG)....Int'l Speedway Corp. named Centerplate Accounting Manager LUKE COLLIER Business Analyst for its motorsports catering and concessions firm Americrown (THE DAILY)....Columbia Univ. named Washington Post Financial Manager ERICA ARESCO Associate AD & CFO (Columbia)....N.Y.-based United World Sports promoted JON HINKIN to Tournament Dir for the HSBC Sevens Rugby Series Las Vegas (UWS)....Quiksilver named food company Danone BOD Chair FRANCK RIBOUD to its BOD (Quiksilver).
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