The Atlanta Football & Basketball Host Committees named Georgia Dome GM CARL ADKINS Exec Dir for the '18 CFP national championship game and the '20 Final Four. Adkins will "begin working full time on the football game on Sept. 1." After those duties "are wrapped up in early" '18, he will shift to the Final Four (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 7/20).
EXECS: The MLS Union named Saints and Pelicans Senior VP/Corporate Partnership & Activation JEAN-PAUL DARDENNE Senior VP/Corporate Partnerships; Under Armour Senior Soccer Global Brand Manager DOUG VOSIK VP/Marketing; and Pacers Dir of Ticket Sales CHARLIE SLONAKER VP/Ticket Sales & Fan Services (BIZJOURNALS.com, 7/19)....Barstool Sports named former AOL CMO ERIKA NARDINI CEO (BOSTON HERALD, 7/20)....The NCAA D-I Men's Basketball Committee named Creighton Univ. AD BRUCE RASMUSSEN Vice Chair for the '16-17 season. Rasmussen will serve as Chair in '17-18 (NCAA)....Rochester Institute of Technology named Iona College Assistant AD BETHANY SCHLEGEL to the same position. She will begin Aug. 1 (RIT)....Hofstra Univ. named Cornell Univ. Multimedia Coordinator AMANDA GHYSEL Senior Assistant Dir of Athletic Communications (Hofstra)....The NASCAR Foundation named Daytona Beach-based Brown & Brown Insurance Florida Personal Lines Leader KATIE PALMER and Sunoco Exec VP & CMO CYNTHIA ARCHER to its BOD (NASCAR)....Memphis Int'l Raceway promoted VP & GM PAM KENDRICK to President & GM (MIR).
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