Twitter Media Head of Global Operations BEN GROSSMAN will "leave his position in February." He said, "I was brought in to Twitter with the goal of building a new structure, team and group of products and having just wrapped that up, I've decided it's a great time to move on." Grossman's departure comes "about two and a half months after Twitter went public." He will remain with the company into February "to assist with the transition" (BROADCASTINGCABLE.com, 1/21).
EXECS: The WNBA Dream named NetWorks Sports Consulting President & CEO ANGELA TAYLOR Exec VP & GM. She previously served as Mystics VP & GM from '09-10 and Lynx VP/Business Operations from '06-08 (Dream)....The D-Backs promoted RYAN HOLMSTEDT to Senior Dir of Ticket Sales, CRAIG POZEN to Senior Dir of Business Systems & Applications, MIKE DELLOSA to Dir of Season-Ticket Sales & Inside Sales, ROBERT ITZKOWITZ to Senior Manager of Community Events, RAYME LOFGREN to Manager of Marketing & Advertising and TRAVIS BAKER to Manager of Inside Sales (D-Backs)....Learfield Sports named Rockets Corporate Sales Manager ADAM LEVINSON Dir of Sales for its Texas A&M Sports Properties entity (Learfield)....LA2015, the organizing committee for the '15 Special Olympics World Games in L.A., named BRIAN ERICKSON Senior VP/Sales and SUSAN POLLACK Senior VP/Development (LA2015)....Watkins Glen Int'l named LEVI PALMER Corporate Sales Exec (WGI).
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