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RSE-owned Insignia Sports & Entertainment named IMG College Senior Dir of National Sales MATT GRANDIS VP/Corporate Partnerships & Media Sales and IMG College National Program Dir KATIE GROSSMAN Dir of Partnership Marketing (ISE)….GMR Marketing has hired JULIE YENICHEK as VP/Client Management. The former Lowe's Dir of PR will work on GMR's Lowe's business. SARAH DAVIS, the former IndyCar exec who joined GMR as VP/Client Management a year ago, has left the agency. She is talking to several Charlotte-based businesses about what she plans to do next (Tripp Mickle, Staff Writer)....Lagardère Unlimited promoted VP/Golf BEN HARRISON to Senior VP/Golf (Lagardère)….The Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay named Senior Associate AD DAN MCIVER interim AD as the school “prepares to conduct a national search to replace KEN BOTHOF, who took the same position” at Northern Kentucky Univ. last month (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 7/11)….The Red Wings named Blue Jackets Dir of Amateur Scouting TYLER WRIGHT to the same position (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 7/11)….The Packers named former NFLer TONY FISHER Player/Alumni Senior Coordinator in the team’s community outreach department (Packers).

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