Executive Transactions
The Rams named Buccaneers Senior Assistant to the GM KEVIN DEMOFF Exec VP/Football Operations and COO, replacing Rams President of Football Operations & GM JAY ZYGMUNT, who resigned in December. Demoff, the son of NFL player agent MARVIN DEMOFF, will "handle all player contract negotiations and serve as liaison to ownership on football and business operations" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 1/31)....AEG promoted Staples Center and Nokia Theatre L.A. Live Senior VP & GM LEE ZEIDMAN to L.A. Live Senior VP & GM, overseeing all operations, oversight and management of the development (AEG)....Midway Games President & CEO MATTHEW BOOTY has been appointed Chair after the resignation of PETER BROWN. Midway Thursday in a statement said that Brown "resigned for personal reasons" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1/30)....N.Y.-based Seminara Sports LLC named ED HERRMANN Dir of West Coast Recruitment (Seminara)....Cricket Canada last week fired CEO ATUL AHUJA "without cause" (TORONTO STAR, 1/31)....NYRA has filled the five remaining spots on the 15-member Saratoga Race Course Local Advisory Board. The new appointees include THOMAS ROOHAN, CHARLES WHEELER, JOSEPH TORANI, PATRICK KEHOE and JOANNE ADAMS (SARATOGIAN, 1/31).
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