A bunch of high U.S. sports activities execs are featured on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 in New York at “Sports Business @ 50”.
The forthcoming expanded & revised 2nd version of “The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry” is due out Oct. 2022.
A preferred speaker, author & commentator on the business, regulation, and politics of sports activities, Rick Horrow, “The Sports Professor,” is the Executive Editor of “The Sports Business Handbook,” coming from Human Kinetics (Oct. 2022).
Book Launch Event for “The Sports Business Handbook” at Foley & Lardner Midtown Manhattan Offices
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — This Thursday, September 22, 2022, 4 of the nation’s high sports activities trade executives will collect in New York for the primary of a collection of discussions about sports activities trade developments, greatest practices and the way forward for sports activities business, “Sports Business @ 50 Lessons & Leadership from Legends of the Game,” on the Manhattan workplaces of Foley & Lardner LLP from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday’s panel dialogue is in assist of the publication of The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry by sports activities business pioneer Rick Horrow, who’s co-hosting the panel dialogue. The occasion, which options contributors to the e-book, is co-hosted by former Major League Baseball President and present Foley companion Bob DuPuy.
Joining the 2 sports activities business leaders in the panel dialogue are National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals and Monumental Sports govt Zack Leonsis, and Staks founder Scott Pranger.
The sports activities trade veterans can be a part of the panel dialogue on developments, together with Foley lawyer Andy Lee and particular advisor Bobby Sharma (additionally a e-book contributor), whereas e-book contributor Mike Cardano, VP of Operations with SportsGrid, will present the technical experience to provide and develop sustaining content material from the occasion.
Originally launched at a joint Harvard Law/Harvard Business assembly in late 2019 and heralded as probably the most distinctive assortment of commentary and recommendation from trade leaders in the $1.3 trillion business of sports activities, The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry
has been expanded and revised for the brand new second version by Horrow, the e-book’s writer and editor.
Horrow and his crew solicited contributions, recommendation, and steering from 20 extra business leaders who supplied distinctive post-pandemic perception to enrich and reinforce the 28 chapters (and 109 contributions) from the unique e-book. The revised version now features a “Breakthrough Moments” record of 50 of probably the most important sports-related moments that modified the trade.
Thursday, Pranger will announce the small print of a “Breakthrough Moments” NFT collection.
The panel dialogue and launch occasion for Horrow’s new e-book (printed by Human Kinetics) is hosted by Foley at their workplaces at 90 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. A networking cocktail reception follows. Additional details about the Sept. 22 e-book launch occasion is offered at https://bit.ly/3AWHa4b.
Featured audio system embrace:
• Rick Horrow is Executive Editor of The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry. Horrow’s nickname, “The Sports Professor,” has its origin in his function as Visiting Expert on Sports Business at The Harvard Law School. As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, Horrow has been the architect of greater than 100 offers value greater than $20 billion in sports activities, performing arts, and different city infrastructure tasks. Horrow pioneered the general public/personal partnership and infrastructure branding ideas that, so far, has enticed greater than $4 billion in company funding to cities and growth tasks. Besides growing stadia and arenas, Horrow’s potential to place collectively a number of city initiatives into one bundle for voter approval has resulted in the constructing of latest performing arts and conference facilities, faculties, libraries, transit tasks, and vacationer locations.
• Bob DuPuy is a companion and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He brings greater than three many years of broad authorized expertise to his shoppers, together with his tenure as chief authorized counsel and, most just lately, president and chief working officer of Major League Baseball. DuPuy is a member of the agency’s Sports Industry Team. He focuses his follow on the illustration of consumers and sellers in sports activities franchise gross sales transactions and restructurings, together with associated financing and navigation of league necessities in reference to these transactions; stadium development, rehabilitation, and financing; media and new media contracts and licensing, syndication and participation agreements; in addition to different associated business and authorized points. While at MLB, DuPuy was accountable for all phases of business points dealing with the group, from labor relations to broadcasting rights inside conventional and rising media, and worldwide enlargement points to stadium finance offers, advertising and marketing and authorized affairs.
• Gary Bettman has served the National Hockey League as Commissioner since February 1993. He has guided the world’s high skilled hockey league by means of greater than twenty years of development and development on and off the ice. Record revenues, file attendance and all kinds of fan-friendly initiatives are only a few logos of Commissioner Bettman’s tenure, which has introduced the NHL to a broader viewers, by means of extra media platforms, than any time in League historical past.
• Zack Leonsis is senior vice chairman of strategic initiatives for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, a multi-platform sports activities, media, leisure, and expertise firm situated in the center of Washington, DC. MSE is greatest recognized for its fan-facing manufacturers which embrace the Washington Capitals, the Washington Wizards, and Capital One Arena, in addition to seven extra crew manufacturers, three extra venues, and fairness in two media networks: NBC Sports Washington and Monumental Sports Network. Leonsis manages all of Monumental’s media rights relationships and all media revenues report back to him. Leonsis additionally oversees all M&A, enterprise capital and personal fairness funding alternatives. Additionally, Leonsis additionally launched and oversees Monumental’s rising esports division.
Thursday’s occasion is the primary of a collection created by Horrow that features future stops in Nashville on November 3, in addition to occasions across the NHL All-Star Game in South Florida in February, Super Bowl LVII in Arizona in mid-February; and the NCAA Final Four in late March/early April in Houston.
Additional details about Horrow is offered at http://horrowsports.ventures. Additional details about The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry is offered at https://bit.ly/3dp128s.
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