Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions
On the Move: May 12, 2025
The Canadian Elite Basketball League hired TYLER MAZEREEUW as president. Mazereeuw was chief commercial officer for the Canadian Football League.
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 9, 2025
Football Australia CEO JAMES JOHNSON has “informed” the board that he will “leave the job and will stay on for a period of time to support the transition to a new CEO.” HEATHER GARRIOCK, a board member since 2021, will “serve as interim CEO during the search for a full-time replacement” (SYDNEY MORN...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 8, 2025
DAN REED, who joined Meta in 2014 after a decade at the NBA, announced on social media that he will soon leave the tech giant. After spending more than seven years as President of the NBA G League, Reed joined what was then-known as Facebook to start its global sports business. After eight years in ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 7, 2025
IOC board member MIKAELA COJUANGCO JAWORSKI “has been elevated to lead the IOC’s coordination commission for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.” Jaworski was selected as 2032 commission chair “to replace KIRSTY COVENTRY," who is set to take over as IOC president next month. Jaworski joined the IOC’s execut...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 6, 2025
The Red Bulls named KATIE NAHOUM CMO. She will oversee all marketing and communications efforts while reporting directly to Red Bulls President & GM MARC DE GRANDPRÉ. Nahoum most recently was VP/Marketing at Kos, and had previous stops at supplement brand 8Greens, healthy snack brand Whisps, bed...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 5, 2025
The PGA Tour completed a series of organizational changes last week. The tour’s Tournament Business and Championship Management arms are coming together to form PGA Tour Events. The division will be led by JOHN NORRIS, who’s taking on the title of SVP/PGA Tour Events. The communications group is bei...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 2, 2025
USA Gymnastics named Indiana Department of Administration Commissioner REBECCA HOLWERDA as its Chief Operating Officer. Holwerda will begin her tenure April 28, overseeing USA Gymnastics’ day-to-day operations and ensuring execution of organizational strategies and initiatives. Holwerda replaces LAU...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - May 1, 2025
The NHLPA has hired former NFL Players Inc. President STEVE SCEBELO to serve as its Chief Commercial Officer, a new role in which he will lead the union’s efforts to expand its licensing and sponsorship business, particularly in the U.S. He will take the reins from BILL GENTNER, who the union brough...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 30, 2025
Longtime Amazon SVP JEFF BLACKBURN is coming out of retirement to take over as Chair & CEO of Tennis Channel. Blackburn will lead growth initiatives for the network and the expansion of its digital and streaming platforms. He will relocate from Seattle to Santa Monica, Calif., and work out of th...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 29, 2025
Univ. of Nevada President BRIAN SANDOVAL has been appointed to a four-year term as a member of the NCAA Division I BOD. Sandoval’s term commenced April 2 and will continue until August 2029 (Nevada).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 28, 2025
Legends has hired BRANDON NELSON as Chief Legal Officer of the combined Legends and ASM Global business entity. Nelson will lead the combined company’s legal team and work, including partner negotiations, regulatory issues, public policy, compliance, labor law, and risk assessment and mitigation, wh...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 25, 2025
Learfield announced a reorganization atop its sports properties division and has added Arkansas State AD JEFF PURINTON and Paciolan President DEANA BARNES as EVPs. The pair will be part of a new four-person EVP team that also includes Learfield staffers ANDREW WHEELER and MEGHAN HEINCHON (Wheeler is...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 24, 2025
Nike named JENNIFER HARTLEY Chief Strategy Officer. The 14-year Nike veteran takes a place on the company’s senior leadership team and starts in the role this week. Nike’s former chief strategy and transformation officer DANIEL HEAF departed earlier this year “after management decided to eliminate h...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 23, 2025
Fanatics added EVP & CFO GLENN SCHIFFMAN to its BOD. Schiffman joined the company in 2021. Prior to Fanatics, he served as EVP & CFO at IAC/Interactive Corp. Previously, Schiffman spent 25 years as an investment banker, holding various leadership and management roles with organizations inclu...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 22, 2025
Excel Search & Advisory has hired former MLS VP/Talent Acquisition TAMMY CASTADOT to become its head of recruiting operations and has promoted KARI GOODWIN, who formerly served in Castadot’s role, to become an Excel Search & Advisory Principal. Catadot will be based out of Excel Sports Manag...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 21, 2025
Sources said that Arkansas State AD JEFF PURINTON has “accepted a job at Learfield and will be moving on from ASU.” He has served as AD since 2022. Purinton also has worked at Alabama, Florida State and the Orange Bowl (X, 4/18).
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 18, 2025
Netflix founder REED HASTINGS has “stepped down” from his executive chairman role at the streaming service. He will now “serve as chairman of the board and in a non-executive director position.” The company called the move “part of the natural evolution of our leadership structure and succession pla...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 17, 2025
PGA Tour Superstore CEO & Exec Chair DICK SULLIVAN will retire from his day-to-day duties as CEO this summer. He will remain in the exec chair position and will stay on as CEO until his successor is found. Sullivan has been running the company since it had only 10 stores when ARTHUR BLANK bought...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 16, 2025
Athletes Unlimited Softball League named KIM NG as the league’s first commissioner. Since last summer, Ng had been the league’s senior advisor helping develop the teams and structure of the AUSL, including overseeing operations for the league. From 2021-23 she served as general manager of the Marlin...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 15, 2025
The 76ers hired JACKLIN RHOADS as VP/Corporate Communications. Rhoads joins the franchise after a decade in politics, most recently working in communications for Pennsylvania Gov. JOSH SHAPIRO. While there, she led planning from a state perspective for FIFA World Cup, NFL Draft, MLB All Star Game. R...
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