The NFL Giants named KORE Software CMO RUSSELL SCIBETTI VP/Strategy & Business Intelligence. He becomes the team's first business intelligence and analytics exec and will report to Chief Commercial Officer PETE GUELLI. Scibetti previously served as Jets Dir of Relationship & Database Marketing from '09-14 before joining KORE (SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL, 11/11 issue).
AROUND THE HORN: The MLB Giants named Cubs Assistant GM SCOTT HARRIS GM, the 10th in the club's history. Harris spent seven years in the Cubs' baseball ops department (Giants)....The Twins promoted the following: ALEX HASSAN to Dir of Player Development; JEREMY RAADT to Dir of Baseball Systems; and DANIEL ADLER and JEREMY ZOLL to Assistant GMs (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 11/9).
EXECS: Pac-12 Networks Head of Distribution ALDEN BUDILL is "leaving the networks" just three years after her arrival. Budill oversaw affiliate sales and marketing and was the networks' "point person for managing the current carriage deals and seeking new ones." Pac-12 Networks Senior Dir of Content LAURA PODOLAK WADDELL also left the networks last month after seven years to "accept a position at another company" in S.F. (San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 11/9)....A source said that Golden Knights VP/Events & Entertainment JONNY GRECO is leaving the team for a position at MSG (TWITTER.com, 11/7)....Chargers Special Advisor FRED MAAS is leaving the California Horse Racing Board "when his term ends Jan. 1" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 11/11)....Rush Media named Golden Boy Promotions Head of Production WILL WRIGHT VP/Business Development (THE DAILY).
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