Executive Transactions
Published August 7, 2012NFL Network COO KIM WILLIAMS is leaving the net at the end of the week to take a position at an L.A.-based media company, the name of which is not known. Her last day with the NFL is Friday. Williams started with the league in '03 as a Senior VP. She also was NFL CFO. She has served in her current position since '06. Williams was a member of SportsBusiness Journal's Forty-Under-40 class in '07. She also was named Woman of the Year by WISE in '12 (John Ourand, THE DAILY).
EXECS: The Ravens named NBA Statistical Consultant & Data Structure Designer SANDY WEIL Football Analytics Dir (Ravens)….The Capitals named MEGAN EICHENBERG Communications Coordinator (Capitals)….BBC London ’12 Olympics Dir ROGER MOSEY “has been appointed acting director of BBC Vision” (GUARDIAN, 8/6)….Woodbine Entertainment Group named Westerkirk Capital CEO JAMES LAWSON BOD Chair, replacing DAVID WILLMOT (WEG)….Burton Snowboards named ANNE-MARIE DACYSHYN VP/Marketing (Burton)....The AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins named ANDREW AUGUSTINE Group Sales Account Exec (THE DAILY)….KemperSports named Business Only Broadband CFO BRIAN MILLIGAN to the same position (KemperSports)….Miami Univ. (Ohio) promoted ANTHONY AZAMA to Assistant AD/Marketing, Sales & Licensing (Miami)….Claflin Univ. named JEROME FITCH AD (Claflin)….Hampton Univ. named NOVELLE DICKENSON AD, ALEXISS ROBINSON Assistant AD and Senior Woman Administrator and KRISTEN DRUMMOND Compliance Coordinator (Hampton)….Delaware State Univ. named interim Senior AD CANDY YOUNG AD (DSU)….Wheaton College named LISA YENUSH Associate AD (Wheaton).
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