Wasserman Media Brings On Former IMG Olympic Marketing Exec
Wasserman Media Group (WMG) named former IMG President of Olympic Sales & Marketing
ROBERT PRAZMARK Exec VP/Marketing, “where he hopes to represent international
sports properties in sponsorship and marketing sales, among other things,” according
to Liz Mullen of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. Prazmark, who will report to WMG Marketing
President JEFF KNAPPLE, represented the USOC from ’99-’05 at IMG. Knapple:
“It would be logical to assume we would build out an Olympic business and Rob
would be a big part of it” (SBJ,
7/17 issue).
EVOLUTION OF SFX: In SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, Andrew Marchand reports four
former execs from SFX Sports Group and SFX Media Group “are expected to announce
this week the formation of Evolution LLC,” a two-division company based in Manhattan.
RICK DIAMOND and SETH MAYERI will lead Evolution Media Talent and
JOSH SCHWARTZ and BRIAN SAMUELS will lead Evolution Management &
Marketing. Diamond and Mayeri, who represent news and entertainment talent, were
able to bring over most of their 80-100 clients from SFX, including SI’s SETH
DAVIS, ESPN/ABC soccer analyst ERIC WYNALDA and BUD COLLINS
(SBJ,
7/17 issue). Meanwhile, in a separate piece, Mullen cites sources as saying
that player agent GREG LANDRY has left SFX Sports and joined CAA (SBJ,
7/17 issue).
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