Executive Transactions
Microsoft named VP/Global Marketing Communications MICHAEL DELMAN VP/Global Marketing for its Interactive Entertainment Business, focusing on the Xbox and Microsoft Game Studios divisions, effective in August. Delman will handle global marketing strategy for Xbox (BRANDWEEK.com, 6/24).
EXECS: Blue Entertainment Sports Television (BEST) named MICHAEL LAWSON VP/Business Development, Sales & Marketing. He will be responsible for the management of sales for all of BEST's platforms. Lawson previously was at Nelligan Sports Marketing, where he managed the properties at Ball State Univ., Middle Tennessee State Univ. and Marquette Univ. (Michael Smith, SportsBusiness Journal)....Churchill Downs Inc. BOD member SETH HANCOCK, who served in the role for 35 years, stepped down last week (Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, 6/25)....Comcast SportsNet Bay Area named CHRIS MCDONALD Dir of Finance (CSN)....Indiana Sports Corp. named Butler Univ. Assistant AD and Administrator JULIE ARNOLD to the newly created position of Dir of NCAA Special Projects (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/25)....790 The Zone sideline reporter RICK STROM will serve as the color analyst for Georgia Tech football radio broadcasts (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 6/25).
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