40 Sports Business Arrivals/Departures of the Month: March 2014

April 7, 2014

Our Top Mover this month was Herbert Hainer who remained adidas CEO and joined Bayern Munich.

Other notable appointments included Tokyo 2020 appointing a board Jay Monaghan becoming PGA Tour Deputy Commissioner and the Australian GP losing their chairman Ron Walker.

Our Full List Here (in date order):

1

Andrew Strauss Joins Executive Team at Middlesex Cricket

Friday, 04 April 2014

2

Tranmere Rovers Appoints New CEO

Friday, 04 April 2014

3

Indian Supreme Court Puts Forward Sunil Gavaskar as Srinivasan’s Replacement at BCCI

Friday, 28 March 2014

4

French Ski Legend Jean-Claude Killy Resigns from IOC

Friday, 28 March 2014

5

ECB Appoints Gordon Hollins to New Role as Chief Operating Officer

Friday, 28 March 2014

6

Werder Bremen President & CEO Announces Departure

Thursday, 27 March 2014

7

Tokyo 2020 Appoints New Positions on Executive Board

Thursday, 27 March 2014

8

Erin O’Connell Becomes First Female President of USRowing

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

9

Marc Watson to Step Down as BT TV CEO

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

10

Gus Mackay Set to Step Down as London Broncos CEO

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

11

Bradford Bulls Announce New Owner

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

12

Southampton FC Name Gareth Rogers Permanent CEO

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

13

ASA Looking for New Chief Executive after David Sparkes Becomes Sole CEO of British Swimming

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

14

British Dressage Looks for New CEO as Bond Leaves for Hong Kong

Monday, 24 March 2014

15

Sergey Vorobyev Installed as New Chief of Inaugural Russian Grand Prix

Friday, 21 March 2014

16

Ron Walker to Step Down as Australian GP Chairman

Friday, 21 March 2014

17

James Mercer Leaves RFL to Join LTA as Commercial Director

Friday, 21 March 2014

18

NFLPA Appoint Eric Winston as President

Thursday, 20 March 2014

19

Markus Haggeney Appointed New Marketing Director of FAI

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

20

Phil Jackson Named New York Knicks President

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

21

PGA Tour Promotes Jay Monahan to Deputy Commissioner

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

22

Canterbury Rugby Union Appoints First Independent Director

Monday, 17 March 2014

23

Generate Hires New Director

Monday, 17 March 2014

24

Lotus F1 Promotes Federico Gastaldi to Deputy Team Principal

Friday, 14 March 2014

25

Adidas Chairman Herbert Hainer Replaces Hoeness as Bayern Munich President

Friday, 14 March 2014

26

Former Eurosport & Wasserman Executive Jones Joins Limelight Sports

Friday, 14 March 2014

27

Hoeness Accepts Prison Sentence and Steps Down as Bayern Munich President

Friday, 14 March 2014

28

Southampton FC Appoint Former Ice Hockey Coach as Chairman

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

29

NASCAR Hall of Fame Appoint Mike Laheta as Manager Corporate Partnerships

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

30

Asian Tour Hires Shahid Sen as Director of Business Development

Monday, 10 March 2014

31

USA Triathlon Elects New Members to Board of Directors

Sunday, 09 March 2014

32

Chiefs Elect Chairman & Vice Chairman

Thursday, 06 March 2014

33

FIA World Endurance Championship Appoints Andrew Craig to Push Development in North America

Thursday, 06 March 2014

34

Derbyshire Cricket Appoint Geoff Miller as President

Wednesday, 05 March 2014

35

Philipp Hasenbein to Head Up New European Soccer Platform for Lagardère

Wednesday, 05 March 2014

36

Adidas Extend CEO Herbert Hainer’s Contract Until 2017

Wednesday, 05 March 2014

37

Sunil Gulati Re-Elected for Third Term as U.S. Soccer President

Monday, 03 March 2014

38

AFL Chief Andrew Demetriou to Step Down

Monday, 03 March 2014

39

Atlanta Falcons Appoints New Chief Technology Officer

Sunday, 02 March 2014

40

Luca Colajanni Appointed Partnership Director of Marussia F1

Sunday, 02 March 2014