Visa VP/Brand Strategy & Innovation ANDREW COHEN has assumed additional duties on the payment processor’s Rio Games and FIFA platforms. An SBJ Forty Under 40 winner in '10, Cohen was given the sports assignments after JEREMY NICHOLAS, Head of Global Product Marketing, left the company in May. Cohen’s expanded duties include global creative development, which includes the sports projects, and product marketing, but his title will not change. He continues to report to Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer CHRIS CURTIN (Ben Fischer, Staff Writer).
EXECS: The SEC named AAC Associate Commissioner/Men's Basketball DAN LEIBOVITZ to the same position (SEC)....NESN promoted VP/Digital MICHAEL HALL to Senior VP/Digital (NESN)....Raycom Sports named Jacksonville-based First Coast News/TEGNA Media VP, Station Manager & Dir of Sales BILL LANCASTER VP/Sales (Raycom)....The NHL Panthers promoted scout PETER MAHOVLICH to Special Advisor to Ownership. Mahovlich will continue to work in the Panthers scouting department (Panthers)....VENUS WILLIAMS' clothing line EleVen by Venus named RBB Communications Account Dir MARLON LEWINTER Senior Dir of Marketing & PR (THE DAILY)....The Arizona Sports & Tourism Authority named Camelback Ranch Spring Training President & GM JEFF OVERTON BOD Chair; Suns Senior VP/Communications & Public Affairs MARIA BAIER Vice Chair; and Phoenix-based Hensley Beverage VP/Communications DOUG YONKO Secretary. All three will start July 1 (ASTA).
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