NESN named VSiN Exec Producer RICK JAFFE VP/Programming & Production. Jaffe, who also spent 16 years at Fox Sports, will begin in December and will oversee the RSN's Red Sox and Bruins game production, studio programming and sports news shows. He will also be responsible for Original NESN Entertainment (NESN)....MLS named DR. MARGOT PUTUKIAN Chief Medical Officer. Additionally, the league named DR. BERT MANDELBAUM Associate CMO and JOHN GALLUCCI Assistant to the CMO. DR. LAWRENCE LEMAK, who has served as MLS CMO since '96, will become CMO Emeritus (MLS)....Phillips Nizer LLP has added EDWARD SCHAUDER, a prominent corporate transactional attorney well known for his sports and entertainment practice, as a partner in its N.Y. office. Schauder previously served as sports memorabilia company Steiner Sports General Counsel & Exec VP/Licensing (Phillips Nizer)....The Coyotes named former U.S. women's hockey player LYNDSEY FRY Special Advisor to team President & CEO AHRON COHEN. Fry will also be an ambassador for the club (Coyotes)....The Single-A Carolina League Myrtle Beach Pelicans named RYAN WATERS Dir of Business Development (Pelicans)....The MLB Rangers promoted Single-A Carolina League Down East Wood Ducks GM WADE HOWELL to VP. Additionally, Wood Ducks Dir of Operations JANELL BULLOCK and Dir of Sales JON CLEMMONS were promoted to Assistant GMs (Rangers)....CAA promoted the following: PAIGE FELDMAN and JACK KINGSLEY to Brand Consulting Execs; PAIGE HOLTZMAN to Motion Picture Literary agent; and BRETT LIEBERMAN to Sports Exec (CAA).
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