Danny White -VP & Director of Athletics - University of Central Florida
Turnkey Search Forty Under 40 Spotlight Podcast
Release Date: 04/30/2018
Matt Hill - SVP, Global Sports and Entertainment Consulting - GMR Marketing
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Matt Hill chats about his journey to becoming Senior Vice President of Global Sports and Entertainment Consulting at GMR Marketing. Stopping to think about the one career decision that changed everything for him brought Matt to the realization that his entire career has really been a series of decisions. To start, coming from college looking to be a journalist, Matt started to get into editing when he realized that the industry was not really for him. He moved into public relations at the NFL and was on the PR path from there. After five years in PR, decided to go back to business school and...
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Nina King - Deputy Director of Athletics for Administration/Legal Affairs and Chief of Staff - Duke University
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Nina King, Deputy Director of Athletics for Administration/Legal Affairs and Chief of Staff for Duke, singles out her mom as the most inspirational presence in her life. As a single mother who emigrated from Palestine at the age of 22, she taught Nina everything about being a strong, independent woman. Nina also credits Kevin and Jane White, both professionally and personally, for her growth and success. The opportunity to learn the business from Kevin White has been an exceptional opportunity. Nina’s foremost advice to anyone pursuing a career in sports is to be authentic and operate within...
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Kary Brock - Vice President - Endeavor
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Kary Brock talks about her role as Vice President of Endeavor. The move she made to IMG college and the marketing team she worked with there was pivotal to her success. Having had the chance to be part of bringing a new offering into the sports marketing landscape led to her playing an active role in marketing for IMG. Throughout her time there her team was constantly evolving, changing, growing, and offering challenges that pushed her thinking and helped her growth. The eventual merger brought even more tools to her disposal and expanded her creativity within the marketing platform. She was...
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Josh Veilleux - VP, Global Partnerships - AEG Global Partnerships
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Josh Veilluex, Vice President of Global Partnerships for AEG Global Partnerships, talks to us about the impact of making a professional change early in his career. When he had an opportunity to take a step back from business and take some professional sports development programs, he was awarded the opportunity to make the transition to LA and join AEG. Coming into a career in sports at the age of 27 and bringing sales experience with him gave him an edge over some of the younger candidates just out of school. From there he took advantage of the growth within AEG which led him his current role....
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Tory Dandy - Agent - CAA Sports
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Tory Dandy, Agent with CAA sports, traces his success back to when he was interning and met Eugene Parker who became a partner, mentor, and friend for many years. When CAA reached out, Tory knew that he had a chance to take advantage of an amazing opportunity. It has now been almost two years and he recognizes the good fortune that has led him to this day. The biggest lesson he has learned has been the importance of building relationships. From all facets of the work, nurturing and valuing relationships is the key in being successful. Doing things with character, morals, and integrity is the...
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Angela Ruggiero - CEO & Co-Founder - Sports Innovation Labs
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Angela Ruggiero, Olympic Gold Medalist and CEO and co-founder of Sports Innovation Lab, talks to us about how she approaches her business career as she did her sports career. She mentions how setting goals, learning from mistakes, determination, and surpassing roadblocks that she applied to her sports career and that she now also applies to business. She successfully takes the mindset of an athlete and approaches everything else with that same mindset. Although someone coming from an athletic career might not always have the skill set or experience they need, what they do have is a whole set...
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Sean Eggert - VP, Head of Sports Marketing - Red Bull North America
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Sean Eggert, Vice President and Head of Sports Marketing for Red Bull, credits pursuing a passion early in life as the reason for his success today. The values of pushing hard and teamwork have carried through from his college days to the present. Having finished college in just 3 ½ years, Sean parlayed hard work into a job working for the Detroit Pistons, where he learned the ropes from passionate leaders who set him up for what he is achieving today. The biggest lesson he’s learned is to not to be afraid to ask the dumb question. Sometimes that can be perceived as active listening....
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Pat LaCroix - Head of Global Media & Sponsorships - Bose
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Pat LaCroix, Head of Global Media and Sponsorship for Bose, has a sincere appreciation for how important it is to represent a good brand in an exciting category. Pat stresses the importance of having key role models who have a common set of core values and pragmatic decision-making capacities. Some people that were fundamental in challenging him and pushing him towards success include: Mike Mangioni, who hired him at Bose, Nicola Emsley, head of Bose global marketing, and Bob Maresca, their recently retired CEO. On the personal side, Pat has learned invaluable lessons from his parents and...
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Nili Doft - VP, Digital Products and Analytics - NHL
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Nili Doft, Vice President of Digital Products and Analytics for the NHL, talks about the lessons she’s picked up in her career. Her number one tip is never to shy away from opportunities. Her own career pivoted a few years back when she landed a new role in strategy and found herself facing a new and exciting challenge. Her advice to anyone looking to start a career in sports would be to cast a wide net and not to limit where they look to get a career off the ground. There are plenty of companies you might not think about that have sports opportunities. Many companies have departments and...
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Matt Grandis - EVP, Properties - CSM Properties
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Matt Grandis, EVP of Properties for CSM Properties, takes us on his career journey going all the way back to the moment when he was a camp counselor and one of the camper’s dads talked to him about a career in sports. Through that relationship he was hired as an intern a PSP sports. He stuck it out and his perseverance paid off. The process that got him to his role next role then led to opportunities to continue to build the bricks in his career. The chance to then try something totally new and build an international soccer property from the ground up was a major decision that changed the...
info_outlineDanny White, Vice President and Director of Athletics for the University of Central Florida, has leaned on the experience and guidance of his father his entire life. His dad, who worked in sports from the ground level up, highly stressed the I over E - the Intellect over Emotion.
Danny has found that in directing athletic programs, if you can focus on productivity and positivity, you can accomplish so much more. Elimination of drama allows for decision-making on a much more effective level. He advises using the same approach that coaches use when working with the athletes, telling your team to not get too high on the highs nor two low on the lows. In a world where competition and emotions can run high, he tries to keep his staff on target and focused on staying even-keeled.
When Danny was at Ole Miss, he rolled out a campaign to help Ole Miss become more competitive in the SEC - the campaign was a huge success. That experience taught Danny that a university athletics program’s fan base, it’s community base, and it’s alumni base are open to rallying around aggressive and ambitious programs that can put them in the midst of a thriving athletics program.
This edition of the Forty Under 40 Spotlight Podcast, featuring interviews with winners of Sports Business Journal's prestigious Forty Under 40 Award, is brought to you by Turnkey Search.