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Software developer SportsEngine has "announced the departure of its three co-founders," as CEO JUSTIN KAUFENBERG, Principal Designer CARSON KIPFER and Chief Technology Officer GREG BLASKO have "left the company." Senior VP/HR ANNA KLOMBIES has also left the company. Meanwhile, SportsEngine promoted President BRIAN BELL to CEO, VP/Sales BRETT MACKINNON to Senior VP/Sales and VP/Marketing JODY VOGELAAR to Senior VP/Marketing & Content (BIZJOURNALS.com, 9/25).

EXECS: The Impact named former Royal Antwerp FC (Belgium) sporting consultant OLIVIER RENARD Dir of Sporting (PROSOCCERUSA.com, 9/28)....Orioles Special Assistant BRADY ANDERSON "won't be back with the organization" next season. Anderson spent '19 advising on the fitness and conditioning side. Under Exec VP & GM MIKE ELIAS, Anderson "didn't have the influence in baseball operations like he grew to have previously" (BALTIMORE SUN, 9/30)....The Flames promoted Dir of Hockey Analysis CHRIS SNOW to Assistant GM (CALGARY HERALD, 9/27)....The Univ. of Hartford said that AD MARY ELLEN GILLESPIE is "on leave." The development "comes days after a former volleyball player at the school filed a lawsuit claiming that her coach berated and sexually harassed her on and off the court" (HARTFORD COURANT, 9/28).

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