Women's Sports
Levine Leichtman family completes purchase of San Diego Wave FC
San Diego Wave FC will announce today that the Levine Leichtman Family Office has completed its purchase of the NWSL club from founding owner Ron Burkle. The deal was completed in two parts this year, with the average valuation coming in at $113M. It was the highest valuation of an NWSL team in a sa...
Panelists at Game Changers offered tips on how to get ahead (and the benefit of a ‘subway push’)
Collectively, they have decades in the industry; years spent in the C-suite, front offices and board rooms. The veteran executives offered the advice they had given to their younger selves, giving Game Changers attendees insight on navigating their careers.
Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan discusses team's diversity efforts at Game Changers
Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan said that she looks to guide the Raiders by being rooted in three key pillars: collaboration, communication and being champions in anything the NFL franchise looks to do.
Sights from Thursday afternoon at SBJ Game Changers
The afternoon session of SBJ Game Changers in N.Y.C. featured one-on-ones with Chiefs EVP and CMO Lara Krug and Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan as well as a panel featuring past Game Changers honorees.
Jade Cargill balancing career and busy schedule one year into WWE tenure
One year into her WWE career, superstar Jade Cargill has ascended to the main roster and become a champion while balancing a hectic work-life schedule that includes being a mother, a role model for the next generation and a business owner.
LPGA’s Mollie Marcoux Samaan takes on Solheim Cup snafu
LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan addressed the transportation snafu that left thousands of fans frustrated at the Solheim Cup.
Sights from SBJ Game Changers in NYC
Following Wednesday night's Honoree Ceremony, the first full day of SBJ Game Changers 2024 featured one-on-ones with Klutch Sports Group President of Football Nicole Lynn and LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan as well as a sit down with WWE Superstar Jade Cargill .
Nicole Lynn talks career path at Game Changers
Nicole Lynn threw several hail marys on her path to becoming President/Football Operations for Klutch Sports Group -- the biggest of which, she said on stage at SBJ's Game Changers conference in N.Y., was leaving a “cushy” Wall Street job to pursue a career as a sports agent.
The Collective + SBJ Futures Cohort meet at SBJ's Game Changers
The Collective + SBJ Futures Cohort gathered for the first time at Sports Business Journal’s Game Changers conference Thursday in N.Y.
SBJ's Game Changers event kicks off with star-studded awards ceremony
Nearly 400 attended the first stand-alone awards ceremony for SBJ’s Game Changers on Wednesday at the Marriott Marquis in New York. The class of 2024 received their awards amid a spirited celebration punctuated with walkup music selected by each of the honorees and multiple standing ovations from fa...
SBJ Game Changers honors Women in Sports
Sights from the Honoree Ceremony for SBJ Game Changers 2024 in N.Y.C celebrating Women in Sports Business.
Sara Grauf — San Francisco Giants
Sara Grauf has been working for the San Francisco Giants since 2001, spanning a half-dozen promotions to her current title as senior vice president of experience development, and she has carved a new path at each stop in her career.
Emily Spiegel — MKTG Sports + Entertainment
A leap of faith that Emily Spiegel took in her mid-20s — leaving her native North Carolina for Connecticut — became the genesis of a career in the sports industry that continues to reap rewards two decades later.
Emily Prazer — Formula 1
Elizabeth Shakespeare — Levy
Erin Crowe — Ottawa Senators
With the Ottawa Senators struggling to recover financially from the COVID-19 pandemic, longtime team owner Eugene Melnyk personally appealed to former CFO Erin Crowe to come back. Crowe, a native Ottawan who worked for the club from 1996-2015 and was then at a tech company, felt compelled to help.
Fran Weld — Canopy Team
“I think about the work that I’ve done as lying at the intersection of sports and cities,” she said. “Sometimes that’s about the venue itself, but more often that’s about urban planning, infrastructure, transportation, the community engagement component.”
Qiava Martinez — Las Vegas Raiders
In the 2000s, Qiava Martinez was a teen magazine publishing entrepreneur, using her magazine, Culture, to promote and develop young authors. But when the Great Recession hit in 2008, her business went under and she found a part-time job in inside sales for the Oakland Raiders.
Belinda Oakley — Sodexo Live
Kami Taylor — Octagon
With her father being a legendary grassroots auto racing driver, Kami Taylor grew up in the traveling circus of the motorsports world in the Northeast. But this summer, she was at the Olympic Games in Paris, where she was helping blue-chip brands activate around one of the biggest events of the year...
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