Executive Transactions

The Rockets named CEDRICK EDWARDS Guest Services Manager, ANDREW SIDNEY Manager of Group & Inside Ticket Sales, SEAN MCCLOSKEY Media Relations Manager and WILL TULLOS Graphic Designer. The team also announced the following promotions: CODY HANES to Dir of Ticket Sales; ARYON CROCKETT to Event Services Coordinator; ERIC MARTIN to Event Booking Coordinator; COURTNI MARTIN to Guest Services Coordinator; REBECCA TRAYLOR to Senior Event Coordinator; MANDY WALSH to Senior Marketing Manager; BRYANT SAVAGE to Senior Dir of Security & Guest Services,;GREG POOLE to Senior Dir of Facilities; JOSH MASSEY and JOELLE HARDIN to Senior Group Account Execs; ERIC MARGLOUS to Senior Dir of Ticket Operations; LEILANI COSTA to Manager of Events; CHRISLORD TEMPLONUEVO to Senior Event Coordinator; MIKE SCHNIEDERS to Dir of Events & Marketing; and CORTEZ NICHOLS and COURTNEY ALDRICH to Suite Account Managers (Rockets).

EXECS: The Hornets named Rockets Media Relations Manager BRIAN TRAVIS Senior Manager of Basketball Communications. Travis will be taking over the day-to-day basketball PR duties of the club. The team also named Jazz Communications Assistant DANNY FRANKS Communications Coordinator. As a result of the hires, Dir of Communications JOSH ROSEN will focus less on basketball and more on organizational and corporate PR (THE DAILY)....NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises & Content Chair JOE UVA move from his position and become an "adviser on NBC Deportes' move from Florida to the NBC Sports Group facility" in Connecticut. Uva "had been Univision's CEO" until '11 (DEADLINE.com, 9/21)....The CIAA named former Shaw Univ. AD MARCUS CLARKE Senior Associate Commissioner/Championships & Events (CIAA).  

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