Executive Transactions

The law firm Polsinelli named its Sports Industry Group shareholder  TIM BROWNE  Chair and shareholder  LEANE CAPPS  co-Chair, alongside current Vice Chair  DAN ADAMS . Browne joined the  Nashville office in July  ( Polsinelli ). The National Basketball Retired Players Association named NBPA Chief Medical Officer  JOE ROGOWSKI ...

Marshall Univ. promoted Associate Dir of Athletic Development RYAN CRISP to Associate AD/Annual Giving, Ticket Sales & Fan Engagement ( Marshall University ). These career changes are recorded every day in the  SBJ Atlas Executive Directory . With more than 64,000 contacts curated over 15 years...

3Step Sports named Juggernaut Capital Partners Operating Advisor TANIA KING CEO. This move allows founder & former CEO DAVID GEASLEN to shift to Chair of the budding youth sports conglomerate. King will be responsible for partnering with Geaslen on strategy and leading the company's day-to-day...

The Marlins promoted COO  CAROLINE O'CONNOR  to President of Business Operations. Alongside GM  KIM NG , this move makes the Marlins the first team across the U.S.'s top four sports leagues to have women operating the entirety of the team day-to-day business ( Erik Bacharach, SBJ )....

The NWSL K.C. Current named Univ. of Miami Exec Associate AD/Sales & Marketing DAN BOYD VP/Sales & Service ( SBJ ). ESPN promoted Dir MONICA BELK to Supervising Dir ( SBJ ). HILARY NEMCHIK was named Senior Dir of Communications for...

Fox Sports promoted EVP/Marketing  ROBERT GOTTLIEB to President of Marketing. Gottlieb will oversee strategic planning, marketing services, consumer marketing, in-house and out-of-house creative and all aspects of the network’s on-air, off-air and consumer marketing efforts including television, print, online, radio and outdoor creative for FOX Sports, FS1, FS2,...

TikTok has named former NBA CMO  KATE JHAVERI  as its Global Head of Marketing. Jhaveri will fill the role vacated by  NICK TRAN , who left TikTok in January 2022. Jhaveri takes over for TikTok COO  VANESSA PAPPAS , who was “handling global marketing responsibilities in the interim” (...

The Blues named 49ers VP/Corporate Communications  ROGER HACKER VP & Chief Communications Officer and promoted VP/Media & Brand Communications MIKE CARUSO  to VP & Exec Producer of the team's expanded original content creation strategy ( Blues ). The Islanders and UBS Arena promoted SVP/Ticketing & Premium...

Sports management and corporate consulting firm PRP named MGM Resorts International Head of Corporate Partnerships BRETTE SADLER VP ( SBJ ). The PGA of America BOD named 49ers co-owner GIDEON YU  an Independent Dir ( Eric Prisbell, SBJ ).  These career changes...

BASEBALL The Class A Charleston RiverDogs promoted EMILY LEMMON and EVAN COURTNEY to senior account executives and hired CHASE GARBER as operations manager ; JALIN BROWN as food truck manager ; ...