Cutter & Buck President & CEO TOM WYATT is leaving after a little more than a year in that role to become President of GapBody, a subsidiary of Gap (BIZJOURNALS.com, 2/7)....Glendale Arena Senior VP & GM RON WOODBRIDGE has resigned “to pursue other opportunities” (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 2/8).
LEAGUE: The LPGA named LIZ AUSMAN to the newly-created position of Chief Strategic Officer. Ausman has previously served as Exec VP & Dir of Corporate Business Development for Initiative Media Worldwide and Senior VP & Dir of Corporate Strategy & Development for Campbell Ewald Advertising (LPGA)....The NHRA named BRIAN HACKER Media Relations Manager. For the last ten years, Hacker served as an elementary school teacher and prior to that, worked for Brener Zwikel & Associates for two years (NHRA).
FRANCHISE: The Reds named Twins Assistant GM WAYNE KRIVSKY GM, signing him to a two-year contract through the ’07 season with two one-year mutual options (Reds). Reds CEO BOB CASTELLINI said that JIM BEATTIE, who was hired as a special adviser last month and was the other finalist for the GM position, “would not remain with the organization” (CINCINNATI POST, 2/9)....The Bills promoted Dir of Stadium Operations JOE FRANDINA to VP/Stadium Operations, Exec Dir of Corporate Sales PETER GUELLI to VP/Business Development, Exec Dir of Marketing MARC HONAN VP/Marketing & Broadcasting and Dir of Ticket Sales & Service DAVID WHEAT to VP/Business Operations & Ticketing. VP/Operations BILL MUNSON will take on a new role as VP/Public Affairs (BUFFALO NEWS, 2/8)....The Red Sox promoted Manager of Major League Administration BRIAN O’HALLORAN to Dir of Baseball Operations and Baseball Operations Assistant ZACK SCOTT to Assistant Dir of Baseball Operations (Red Sox)....The Mets named Falcons Communications Manager SANDRA VAN MEEK Dir of Market Development (Mets).
MEDIA: Fox Sports named CHRIS CALDWELL to the newly-created position of VP/Client Marketing. For the past five years, Caldwell worked in Gatorade’s sports marketing division and was responsible for overseeing all sports marketing activities for the Midwest and Northeast regions of the U.S. (Fox)....YES Network named WWE VP/HR NICOLE ZUSSMAN VP/HR (YES Network)....ESPN Radio named MARC HORINE GM of New Media for ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes Radio. Horine will lead ESPN Radio’s strategy to exploit its content across a growing number of audio distribution platforms, including ESPNRadio.com, ESPNDeportesRadio.com and iTunes (MEDIAWEEK.com, 2/8).
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