Executive Transactions
Published July 9, 2012The U.K.'s Rugby Football Union named BILL BEAUMONT Chair, replacing PAUL MURPHY, who had been in the role on an interim basis. Murphy will become RFU President (GUARDIAN, 7/8)….Florida Sports Foundation President & CEO LARRY PENDLETON is retiring after 21 years in the position. He will be succeeded by JOHN WEBB (Florida Sports Foundation)….UConn named Univ. at Buffalo Associate AD/Internal Operations DOUG GNODTKE Senior Associate AD/Internal Operations and CFO (UConn)….Gonzaga Univ. named Portland State Univ. Dir of Donor Relations & Special Events SCOTT BOYD Dir of Annual Giving (Gonzaga)….Longwood Univ. promoted JENNA PAGE to Assistant AD/Sports Medicine, ERIC STOLLER to Assistant AD/Marketing and SCOTT BACON to Assistant AD/Development (Longwood)….The Univ. of Sioux Falls named PAM GOHL Assistant AD/Compliance and Senior Woman Administrator. Gohl was previously Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato women’s basketball coach (Univ. of Sioux Falls).
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