Executive Transactions
The Camden Yards Sports & Entertainment Commission named DONALD FRY Chair, replacing PAUL TIBURZI. Fry will take over his new role immediately (BIZJOURNALS.com, 7/29)….Mission Product, an athlete-engineered Skincare line, announced BOB WRIGHT has joined the company's BOD. Wright previously served as NBC Universal Chair & CEO and GE Vice Chair (Mission Product)….Fortune Brands announced LoJack Corp. President & COO RONALD WATERS has been elected to their BOD (Fortune Brands)….ProElite named ROBERT BRIERLEY, EDWARD HANNAH and EDWARD COREY to its BOD (ProElite).
FRANCHISES: English Premier League club Everton CEO KEITH WYNESS has resigned and is “reported to have been offered a similar role" at Spanish La Liga club Real Mallorca (GUARDIAN.co.uk, 7/30)….ECHL Charlotte Checkers President JEFF LONGO has resigned after five years to become Devils VP/Marketing & Community Development (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/31)....The Triple-A PCL Sacramento River Cats named MLB Giants Dir of Marketing & Entertainment BRYAN SRABIAN VP/Marketing and promoted DARRIN GROSS to Senior VP/Business Development (BIZJOURNALS.com, 7/29).
EXECS: Jacked Inc., which develops an interactive online sports offering to complement live TV broadcasts, has hired Andy Castin as its Dir of Partner Management and Tony Schaller as its Exec VP of Product Development. Castin previously was Senior Interactive Media Producer for NBC Universal. Schaller, a longtime veteran of the technology industry, has held executive roles with several companies including Yahoo and Ticketmaster (Eric Fisher, SportsBusiness Journal)....SMI promoted DON HAWK to VP/Business Affairs, MIKE BURCH to VP/Business Development and JESSICA FICKENSCHER to Dir of Special Projects (SMI)….The Harlem Globetrotters named MICHAEL KENNEY Senior VP/Live Event Marketing. For the past five years, Kenney was Dir of Marketing for Comcast Spectacor, Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia (Globetrotters)….SportsMark named rEvolution VP/Corporate Hospitality & Business Development GEORGE POLLINGTON VP/Event Management & Hospitality. Pollington will manage SportsMark’s Visa account team. The company also named the following to its Vancouver office: DANA GRANT Account Dir of Strategic Marketing, JASON OBERHOLTZER Account Dir, VANESSA CARRINGTON Account Dir and SARAH AYTON Account Manager (SportsMark)….Former SI Publicist BOB BRODERICK has joined Fox Sports in their media relations department (THE DAILY)....MindShare Worldwide appointed JONATHAN CHADWICK to head its int’l Nike account (BRANDREPUBLIC.com, 7/30)….High school sports broadcast network Wazoo Sports named STEVE NEWMAN Exec VP/Sales (Wazoo Sports)….Trak Kayaks named ROBERT SCHMIDT VP/Sales & Marketing (Trak Kayaks).
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