Wells Fargo named JP Morgan Chase Sports & Entertainment Marketing Group Exec Dir MATTHEW KIRKPATRICK VP/National Sponsorship Platforms, Learfield VP/East Region and '16 SBJ "Game Changer" PAM BATALIS VP/College Sports & Local Market Sponsorships and GMR Marketing Meetings & Incentives Senior Account Dir MARJORIE WAGNER Hospitality Manager. All three new hires will report to Wells Fargo Senior VP and Head of Sponsorships & Hospitality Brand Engagement NICHOLAS CAREY (THE DAILY).
EXECS: The MLB Rangers and Cordish Cos. named JIM WATRY Texas Live! COO. Prior to Texas Live!, Watry was Ballpark Village COO, a joint Cordish-MLB Cardinals venture (Rangers)....The Coyotes named MIKE BERRY VP/Corporate Sponsorships. He was previously at Fox Sports College Properties' Georgetown Sports Properties, where he was VP & GM (Coyotes)....MKTG named Knicks Digital Dir JONAH BALLOW VP/Digital (THE DAILY)....The SWAC is "officially looking for a new commissioner after the resignation of DUER SHARP in January and the interim work" of EDGAR GANTT. The conference "posted the job opening on the NCAA website's 'The Market.'" The posting said that the job "would begin at or before" July 1 (AL.com, 3/20).
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