The Nets have hired JOHN SPARKS as GM of Barclays Center, the NBA team's new arena under construction in Brooklyn. Sparks was most recently VP & GM at AT&T Center in San Antonio, a position he held since the Spurs' arena opened in '02. Previously, he spent two years as Dir of Operations at Philips Arena in Atlanta. Barclays Center is set to open Sept. 28, 2012 (Don Muret, SportsBusiness Journal).
EXECS: 16W Marketing co-Founder and Partner STEVE ROSNER has been named Dir of Team Operations and Associate Head Coach for the USA open men's basketball team at the 12th Pan American Maccabi Games, which will be held Dec. 26-Jan. 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil (16W Marketing)....The Outback Bowl BOD has appointed Strategic Risk Associates Banking Consultant DALE DIGNUM as Chair for a one-year term (Outback Bowl)....Buffalo Communications named TaylorMade-adidas Golf Dir of PR SCOTT LEIGHTMAN PR Manager and promoted JAMIE BROOKS to PR Specialist. Leightman will open a new office in Phoenix and oversee the hard-good category within the firm's golf and lifestyle products group (Buffalo Communications).
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