IMG Hires Former Turner Exec D'Alba To Sell Event Sponsorships

IMG has tapped a former Turner sales exec to become the company's first head of global sales. Greg D’Alba, the former president of CNN and Turner digital ad sales, has been hired as IMG President of Global Sales & Marketing, a new role in which he will be tasked with selling sponsorships across the company’s events, ranging from golf tournaments to fashion shows to concert tours. IMG announced the news internally yesterday. D’Alba is the first major hire IMG has made since it was acquired by WME in a $2.4B last year.

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