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Executive Transactions - March 25, 2024

Populous named founder, Senior Principal and Global Chair EARL SANTEE CEO. The company also named EMEA Senior Principal NICHOLAS REYNOLDS Chief Global Strategy Officer and Senior Principal RICHARD BRESLIN APAC Co-Managing Dir (Populous).

Fire FC promoted VP/Corporate Partnerships GOYO PEREZ to SVP/Corporate Partnerships and Dir/Partnership Strategy JULIA TESORO HULL to VP/Partnership Marketing & Strategy (Fire FC).

Major League Pickleball club St. Louis Shock named NISL Magic City SC co-owner ANDREW HAINES COO (St. Louis Shock).

American Univ. is “targeting” Boston College Deputy AD JM CAPARRO as the school’s new AD, according to sources cited by ESPN's Pete Thamel (X, 3/25).

NEW -- Former Vikings VP/Football Communications BOB HAGAN, former U.S. Hockey League and Western Collegiate Hockey Association Commissioner BILL ROBERTSON, Agile Marketing Partners founder PATRICK KLINGER, and Stinson LLP Corporate Attorney and Partner SCOTT ERICKSON announced the launch of Ignitor Partners. It is a new collaboration that will provide marketing, communication, public relations, legal and sponsorship expertise to brands, sports properties, organizations and municipalities in Minnesota and throughout the country. Ignitor Partners members will continue to maintain and pursue their own independent projects and work together when the members’ collective talents can be beneficial to a company or project (Ignitor Partners).

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Phoenix Mercury/NBC’s Cindy Brunson, NBA Media Deal, Network Upfronts

On this week’s pod, SBJ’s Austin Karp chats with SBJ NBA writer Tom Friend about the pending NBA media Deal. Cindy Brunson of NBC and Phoenix Mercury is our Big Get this week. The sports broadcasting pioneer talks the upcoming WNBA season. Later in the show, SBJ media writer Mollie Cahillane gets us set for the upcoming network upfronts.

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SBJ I Factor: Molly Mazzolini

SBJ I Factor features an interview with Molly Mazzolini. Elevate's Senior Operating Advisor – Design + Strategic Alliances chats with SBJ’s Ross Nethery about the power of taking chances. Mazzolini is a member of the SBJ Game Changers Class of 2016. She shares stories of her career including co-founding sports design consultancy Infinite Scale career journey and how a chance encounter while working at a stationery store launched her career in the sports industry. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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