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Disney's BAMTech hired former Apple and Samsung exec KEVIN SWINT as Senior VP & GM for its SVOD service. Swint will "build, and ultimately run, the company's upcoming Netflix competitor." Swint "joined the company this month and will be reporting" to BAMTech CEO MICHAEL PAULL. Swint most recently served as Samsung VP/Product, Content & Service, where he built the company's Milk Music streaming service as well as Milk Video (VARIETY.com, 1/19).

FACEBOOK CHASES SPORTS RIGHTS: Facebook hired Eurosport CEO PETER HUTTON to "head up the social network’s efforts to broker worldwide deals for live-streaming sports." Sources said that Hutton will be "based in Silicon Valley" and report to Head of Global Sports Partnerships DAN REED. Hutton is set to join Facebook following the Pyeongchang Games next month (VARIETY.com, 1/21). Hutton will reportedly not be joining Facebook until "after the Premier League rights have gone out to tender, scuppering his involvement" in the process (THEDRUM.com, 1/19).

EXECS: Nationwide promoted Dir of Sports Marketing & Sponsorships JIM MCCOY to Associate VP/Sports Marketing & Sponsorships. McCoy will oversee the company's sports marketing portfolio, including deals with the NFL, PGA Tour Memorial Tournament and Hendrick Motorsports (Adam Stern, Staff Writer)....Sports Facilities Advisory promoted Marketing Dir ASHLEY WHITTAKER to VP/Business Development & Marketing. Whittaker will work out of the company's HQ in Clearwater, Fla. (THE DAILY)....ISC VP/Americrown RISHI NIGAM has left the company after six years to become COO of an Atlanta-based private equity firm (THE DAILY)....CrossFit named Podesta PR Dir BRETT EWER its first in-house lobbyist. Podesta Group was CrossFit's lone DC lobbying firm (POLITICO.com, 1/19)....John Carroll Univ. AD LAURIE MASSA will retire at the end of the academic year. Massa spent 14 years overseeing the school's 23 varsity sports (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 1/21).


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