Ticketing firm Patron Technologies named NASCAR Managing Dir of Tech Development BETSY GRIDER Chief Strategy Officer. Grider will continue to work out of Charlotte. She will report to CEO MARC JENKINS, who was with NASCAR from '06-14 (THE DAILY).
FARM HANDS: MiLB has made a series of hires and promotions. GERALD JONES, formerly with Feld Entertainment and before that IMG College, the Buccaneers and Pirates, has been named VP/Business Development & Media; MALLORY ROBERTS, formerly with Learfield, Turner Sports and the Astros, has been named Senior Digital Marketing & Communications Manager; MELISSA GIESLER-HASSELL, formerly with St. Thomas Univ. in Miami, has been named Coordinator of Trademarks & Intellectual Property; and JESSICA NORI has been named Events & Partnerships Coordinator. MiLB has also promoted the following: VINCENT PIERSON to Dir of Diversity & Inclusion; JESS SCHNEIDER to Manager of Umpire Operations; and MEGHAN MADSON to Marketing Coordinator (Eric Fisher, Staff Writer).
EXECS: RSE Ventures-owned marketing agency Ascendent Sports Group promoted VP/Corporate & Property Consulting PETER HONIG to Senior VP/Consulting. Ascendent also promoted STEPHANIE MARCIANO to VP/Consulting and RYAN POLUN to Dir of Business Development (THE DAILY)....London-based esports team Fnatic named former F1 team Mercedes CEO NICK FRY Head of Commercial Strategy (Fnatic)....Gizmodo Media Group named MEGAN GREENWELL Editor-In-Chief for Deadspin, where she "steps in for TIM MARCHMAN," who in December was tapped to head Gizmodo's Special Projects desk. Greenwell is Deadspin's "fifth chief editor, and the first woman to hold the post." She was most recently Esquire.com Executive Features Editor, and had a stint as ESPN The Magazine Senior Editor (HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com, 2/6)....Technology service provider ANC named former MSG Sales Rep THOMAS TRIGLIA Account Exec for Client Services (THE DAILY).
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