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Executive Transactions - February 7, 2024

The Orange Bowl Committee named Holland & Knight Partner BRADLEY HOUSER President & Chair. HENRI CROCKETT moves into Houser’s former role as President-Elect and will serve as President & Chair during the 2025-26 year. MICHAEL MORAN will serve as the First Vice-Chair and will become President & Chair in 2026-27 (Orange Bowl).

CAA Search, the exec search division of Creative Artists Agency, has hired LYNDON CAMPBELL to bolster the agency’s search efforts in the areas of data, analytics and artificial intelligence. Campbell joins CAA Search from market research firm MarketCast, where he spent three years as Corporate SVP and GM of sports, live events and brands, a role in which he worked on analytics products focused on sports fandom and sponsor ROI. Prior to that, Campbell was an SVP and head of leagues and rights holders for Nielsen. Campbell will work out of CAA Search’s N.Y. office (Chris Smith, SBJ).

Dentsu Sports International named TSM VP/Strategic Sales CHRIS INSOLERA SVP/Commercial Sales for N.A. Insolera will report directly to Global CCO ECHO LI (DSI).

MOVRS named former MLB Senior Dir/Data Operations SANDY ZINN EVP/Strategy, Innovation and Performance. His role also includes overseeing MOVRS’ Human Performance vertical. Zinn’s work at MLB Advanced Media earned an Emmy Award for 'StatCast' and a SportTechie Award for 'Automated Balls and Strikes' (RoboUmp) (MOVRS).

SailGP promoted SVP/Strategy and Development BEN JOHNSON to CRO (SailGP).

Excel Sports Management named SBExperiential Senior Dir/Sales & Client Services MATT JOHN Dir/Field & Experiential Marketing and ISE Baseball Senior Dir/Marketing SAM SCHLECHTER Senior Manager/Baseball Partnerships. Excel also promoted Brand Marketing Associate ETHAN TSAI to Brand Marketing Coordinator (Excel).

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