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Activision Blizzard Signs Another NBA Exec To Esports Sales Team

Activision Blizzard has lured another NBA exec to join its growing esports sales team, this time adding former NBA Associate VP/Int'l Business Development & Global Partnerships JACK HARARI as its first VP/Int'l Partnerships. Harari spent three of his nearly five years with the NBA working in China, where Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League is currently in market for media rights deals and hopes to add expansion teams. Harari will report to CRO BRANDON SNOW, another NBA China veteran who was hired by the video game maker’s esports division earlier this spring. 

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