BRAVES - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager, Shipping & Receiving
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- Vice President, Accounting
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- Assistant Director of Research, R & D
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- Director, Baseball Operations
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- Senior Vice President Marketing and Content
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- Associate, Ticket Operations
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- Vice President, Event Operations
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- President, Baseball Operations and General Manager / President, Baseball Operations and General Manager
Alex Anthopoulos is in his sixth season with the Braves. He joined the club in November 2017 as the executive vice president and general manager. In February 2020, Anthopoulos was promoted to president, baseball operations and general manager, and received a contract extension.
The Braves won the 2021 World Series under his guidance and have won the National League East in each of his first five seasons leading Atlanta's baseball operations department.
He is the 12th Braves general manager since the franchise moved to Atlanta in 1966.
Anthopoulos, who reports to Chairman Terry McGuirk, oversees all aspects of the club's baseball operations. He came to the Braves after spending the 2016 and 2017 seasons as the Los Angeles Dodgers' vice president of baseball operations.
He joined the Dodgers in January 2016 following six seasons as the Toronto Blue Jays' general manager, which culminated in an American League East title in 2015 to snap Toronto's 22-year postseason drought.
Anthopoulos began his baseball career with the Montreal Expos as a media relations intern in 2000 before transitioning to international scouting and serving as Montreal's coordinator for amateur and professional scouting for the 2002 and 2003 seasons. The Expos expanded his duties in 2003, adding the title of Scouting Supervisor for Canada.
He joined Toronto following the 2003 season as a scouting coordinator and earned a promotion to vice president, baseball operations and assistant general manager on January 8, 2006. On October 3, 2009, he accepted the position of senior vice president, baseball operations and general manager.
He was named Baseball America's Executive of the Year in 2022. Furthermore, Anthopoulos was selected as Sporting News' MLB Executive of the Year at the conclusion of the 2015 campaign - the only executive in Blue Jays history to achieve the honor.
Born May 25, 1977, Anthopoulos is a native of Montreal, Quebec. He is fluent in English and French, and he also speaks some Spanish and Greek. With his Greek descent, he lent his services to the Greek National baseball team around the 2003 European Championships before helping to assemble the Greek national team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
Anthopoulos attended Lower Canada College and Marianopolis College before majoring in economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
He and his wife, Cristina, have a daughter, Julia, and a son, John.
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- Hitting Coach / Hitting Coach
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- Consultant, Business Development
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- Manager, Premium Memberships
Alex Treviño returns for his 28th season as color analyst on the Astros Spanish radio network. He and partner Francisco Romero have been a team since 2008, making them one of the longest-tenured teams in baseball. The two have called 92 postseason games since 2017, which is the most in the Majors in that span. Alex joined the Astros broadcast booth in 1996 and has called more than 3,000 Astros games, 12 postseason appearances and four World Series (2005, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022). Alex's 27 seasons in the broadcast booth are the most in franchise history by a Spanish broadcaster, besting Orlando Sanchez Diago's record of 21 years. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Alex spent 13 seasons playing in the Majors, primarily as a catcher, including the 1988-90 seasons with the Astros. He also spent time with the Mets, Reds, Braves, Giants and Dodgers. While with the Mets in 1980, he threw out 44% (47 of 106) of attempted base stealers, which was tops in the NL. Later in his career, on June 13, 1986, while with the Dodgers vs. the Padres in San Diego, he was part of history when he and pitcher Fernando Valenzuela formed the first Mexican-born battery in Major League history. Alex hit a career-high .290 while serving as Houston's backup catcher in 1989 and hit .364 (32x88) in 25 starts. He played in 939 Major League games and had a .249 lifetime average. Alex' older brother, Bobby Treviño, played in the Major Leagues as an outfielder for the Angels. In September 2014, Alex was inducted into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor for his significant and lasting contributions to the landscape of Houston baseball through his work in broadcasting.
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- Trainee, Information Technology
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- Associate
- Technical Director
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- Director, Retail Operations Warehouse & Inventory
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- Senior Manager, Retail Authentics / Marketing
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- Account Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Senior Manager, Legal Services
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- Coordinator, Diversity Marketing
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- Associate, Ticket Operations
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- Assistant General Manager
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- Audio Video Manager, North Port
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- Senior Display Systems Engineer
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- Vice President, Business Development & Member Experience
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- Maintenance Technician IV
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- Director, Braves Security
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- Business Development Assistant
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- Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications
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- Account Executive, Group & Hospitality Sales
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- Senior Vice President, Ticket Operations
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- Trainee, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
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- Community Relations & Brand Coordinator
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- Vice President, Talent Management
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- Consultant, Member Experience
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- Human Resource Business Partner
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- Senior Coordinator, Security Operations
2023 is Ingram's 13th season with the Braves Radio Network. This is his 5th season with a regular role in the radio booth calling play-by-play alongside Jim Powell and Joe Simpson.
Ingram hosted the Braves pregame show from 2012-2020, and hosted the postgame show from 2011-2019. He has also been the host of the Braves' Clubhouse Report, heard on the flagship station of the Braves, 680 The Fan.
Prior to joining the Braves Radio Network, Ingram spent six season broadcasting minor league baseball with the Jackson Senators, Eugene Emeralds and Mississippi Braves.
Ingram, a native of Madison, MS, graduated from Mississippi College and was named 2014 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by the Department of Communication.
Ben also calls college football in the offseason, including the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. He resides in Buckhead.
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- Controller
- Senior Vice President
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- Assistant General Manager - Player Development Assistant General Manager - Player Development
- Assistant General Manager, Player Development
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- Pitching Coach / Pitching Coach
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- Vice President, BDC Operations
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Senior Advisor
- Major League Baseball 's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor
Bob Starkey was appointed Major League Baseball's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. on December 4, 2014. Starkey oversees financial operations for MLB and plays a key role on industry economics and analysis.
Starkey's association with Major League Baseball began in 1991, when he was engaged to analyze the industry's economics and financial condition. In the ensuing years, he worked closely with Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and Manfred on a variety of industry economic and financial matters, including collective bargaining, the creation and administration of the revenue sharing system and debt-service rule, numerous new stadium projects and various club financial, valuation and transaction matters. Starkey has supported numerous MLB committees and special projects.
Starkey began his professional career as a CPA in the Minneapolis office of Arthur Andersen. After being admitted to the partnership in 1987, he soon became the partner-in-charge of the Andersen professional sports industry group. After resigning from Andersen in 1999, he formed his own sports consulting firm, Starkey Sports Consulting, LLC, through which he has advised MLB and several professional sports franchises on a variety of financial matters. In his hometown of Minneapolis, Starkey was involved in all aspects of the legislation, negotiation, development and financing of Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins.
Starkey is a graduate of Drake University. The Chicago native has resided in the Twin Cities for nearly 40 years.
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- Special Assistant to the General Manager
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- Senior Consultant, Business Development
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- Vice President, Partnership Services
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- Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Head Strength and Conditioning Coach / Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
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- Senior Director, Stadium Operations
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- Analyst, Performance Science
Brandon Gaudin is the new play-by-play announcer for Atlanta Braves telecasts on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.
Gaudin has worked as a play-by-play broadcaster for FOX Sports and the Big Ten Network since 2016, calling MLB, NFL and college football and basketball games.
His voice is also well known in the gaming world. He has been the play-by-play voice on the Madden NFL franchise each year since Madden NFL 17 launched in 2016.
Previously, Gaudin was the Voice of the Yellow Jackets, calling football, men's basketball, and baseball at Georgia Tech from 2013-16. He has remained an Atlanta resident ever since.
Gaudin is a graduate of Butler University, where he was named "Most Outstanding Communications Student" and one of the "Top 10 Male students" in his graduating class of 2006. After college, he began his professional career calling Minor League Baseball games for the Orem Owlz in the Los Angeles Angels organization.
Gaudin grew up a die-hard Braves fan in Evansville, Indiana. The first professional sporting event he attended was Game 5 of the 1991 World Series where the Braves defeated the Minnesota Twins 14-5. He returned to Atlanta for World Series trips in 1992 and 1995. He watched the Braves religiously on TBS and would play make-believe games every day after school in the foyer of his childhood home. He pretended to be then-Braves-voice Skip Caray as he announced the action while "playing" as the Braves. He credits the Braves with fostering his love for baseball and sports broadcasting, a profession he proclaimed he wanted to pursue from age 7 onward.
Gaudin's unique career path has been lined with jobs of destiny, in a way. In 2008 he got to return to his hometown of Evansville to be the "Voice of the Evansville Purple Aces" for 3 seasons. Following that, he was hired by his alma mater, Butler, to be their play-by-play voice from 2010-13 (and was on the call for their magical run to the Final Four in 2011). And now, 10 years later, he gets to fulfill his childhood dream of being the TV voice of the Atlanta Braves.
Gaudin's resume also includes over eight years calling NFL and NCAA Men's Basketball tournament games for Westwood One Radio (2015-present).
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- Senior Manager, Retail Operations
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- Generalist, People Capital
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- Trainee, Partnership Services
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- Facility Operations Coordinator
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- General Maintenance Technician
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- Coordinator, Partnership Services
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- Account Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Manager, Major League Operations
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- Manager, Financial Reporting & Accounting
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- Director of Equipment & Clubhouse Services Director of Equipment & Clubhouse Services
- Director, Equipment & Clubhouse Services
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- Account Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Coordinator, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
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- Senior Coordinator, Retail Buying
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- Director, Latin American Operations
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- Consultant, Member Experience
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- Senior Coordinator, Promotions & Events
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- Senior Director, Ballpark Tours, Braves Heritage & Hall of Fame
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- Analyst, Business Strategy and Analytics
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- Analyst, Major League Operations
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- Development Specialist, Atlanta Braves Foundation
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- Account Executive, Business Development
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- Senior Consultant, New Ticket Initiatives
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- Senior Financial Analyst, Baseball
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- Director, Corporate Partnerships
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- Coordinator, Entertainment
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- Assistant General Manager
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- Consultant, Group & Hospitality Sales
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- Director, AV Technical Services
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- Executive Vice President
- Senior Advisor
- Executive Vice President, Minor League Affiliates & Strategic Planning
The 2023 season marks Chip Moore's 46th with the Braves organization. Moore, executive vice president and senior advisor, assists the Braves' executive board with long-term planning and oversees the club's spring training facility and Florida operations. Moore spent nine years (2009-17) as the Braves' chief financial officer, after spending 12 seasons (1997-2008) as senior vice president and controller. He was named to his current position on February 5, 2018.
Moore was instrumental in the Braves' efforts to secure Truist Park and the club's mixed-use development, The Battery Atlanta, both of which opened in 2017. Moore played an important role in lease negotiations, relocation, design and construction of minor league ballparks in Rome, Ga., Pearl, Miss., and Gwinnett, Ga.
For over 25 years, Moore led the Braves finance and accounting function and played a key role in Braves successes both on and off the field. This included managing financial tasks associated with Braves post-season runs, MLB's 2000 All-Star Game in Atlanta and the many challenges associated with the moves from Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium to Turner Field and finally to Truist Park.
In addition, Moore was an instrumental figure in the lease negotiation, design and construction of the Braves' spring training complex in North Port, Fla., in Sarasota County.
Moore steadily moved up through the organization during his tenure. He began as an usher at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium before working nine seasons as a member of the Braves grounds crew. In 1985, he joined the Braves accounting department and rose to assistant controller in 1988 and controller in 1992 before becoming chief financial officer in 2009 and named to his current position in 2018.
Moore also worked on the establishment of the Braves charitable entity, the Atlanta Braves Foundation, and has served on its Board of Directors since inception.
Moore graduated from Oglethorpe University in 1985 with a degree in business administration, majoring in accounting.
Moore serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Braves Foundation. He served on the Minor League Baseball Board of Trustees for 14 years and on the Board of Directors of the South Atlantic League of Professional Baseball for 29 years, including 20 years as its vice president. In 2006, Moore was inducted into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Rome Braves and the SAL. Additionally, Moore has served on the Board of Directors for the International League and Southern League of Professional Baseball. Locally, he serves on the Board of Atlanta Area Council of Boy Scouts.
Chip and his wife, Anne, reside in Kennesaw, Ga., and have two children, Jordan and Will.
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- Vice President, Information Technology
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- Assistant Manager, Equipment and Clubhouse Services / Assistant Manager, Equipment and Clubhouse Services
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- Senior Director, Applications and Data
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- Senior Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Chief Operations and Strategy Officer
Chris Marinak manages Major League Baseball's operations and strategy functions, including MLB's fan-facing digital technology across MLB.com, the MLB and Ballpark Apps, MLB.TV, and Statcast. Marinak, who joined MLB in 2008, reports directly to Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr. His team includes the marketing and editorial departments responsible for telling the story of baseball and bringing the game to the next generation of fans. He also leads MLB's strategy function responsible for growing the reach of the game, working with the game's Competition Committee on strategic baseball initiatives, and creating the Major League playing schedule. A former member of MLB's Labor Relations Department, Marinak was a key part of the league's bargaining team for two consecutive collective labor agreements. The alumnus of the University of Virginia, where he pitched for the Cavaliers baseball team, attended Harvard Business School. Marinak is a member of the Sports Business Journal's Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame.
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- Executive Assistant to Mike Plant
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- Senior Director, Operations
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- Executive Assistant to Jeremy Strife
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- Coordinator, Retail Assistant Buyer
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- General Maintenance Technician
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- Manager, Business Strategy & Analytics
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- Assistant Director, Baseball Development Analytics
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- Business Development Assistant
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- Director, Ticket Operations - Atlanta
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- Senior Consultant, Member Experience
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- Senior Strategic Account Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Trainee, CRM & Data Analytics
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- Senior Vice President, Affiliate Business Operations
Creighton Kahoalii joined the Astros in July 2012 and has served in a number of leadership roles in key revenue generating business units including Vice President of Corporate Partnerships and Vice President of Ticket Sales & Service. In his current role, Creighton leads the business operations for all Astros operated affiliate properties including The Sugar Land Space Cowboys (Triple-A affiliate), Corpus Christi Hooks (Double-A affiliate), Fayetteville Woodpeckers (Low-A affiliate), and the Astros interest in the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches Spring Training complex. Prior to joining the Astros, Creighton spent the first seven seasons of his career with The Sacramento River Cats and New Orleans Hornets in various Ticket Sales & Service leadership positions.
Baseball has always been a part of Creighton's life. He played collegiate baseball at The University of Hawaii and The University of California-Berkeley and was a late draft pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2000 Amateur Draft. A native of Fremont, CA, Creighton, his wife, Shasta, and two children currently reside in Cypress, TX.
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- Executive Assistant to Adam Zimmerman & Jim Smith
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- Vice President, BDC Security
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- Senior Director, Business Development
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- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Deputy Commissioner, Baseball Administration and Chief Legal Officer
Dan Halem was promoted to Deputy Commissioner, Baseball Administration by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. on Dec. 11, 2017. He remains MLB's Chief Legal Officer, the capacity in which he has served since Dec. 4, 2014. Halem oversees all of the Office of the Commissioner's legal affairs, labor relations, baseball operations, human resources, diversity efforts, the Department of Investigations and other areas.
Halem directs the administration of the revenue sharing system, the debt-service rule, the competitive balance tax, the salary arbitration system and the amateur draft support program, among other projects. Halem has played a key role in all collective bargaining issues with the MLB Players Association, including the renewals of the Basic Agreement in 2011 and 2016, as well as the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. He also manages the bargaining relationship with the World Umpires Association.
Halem was named MLB's Executive Vice President, Labor Relations, by Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig on Dec. 12, 2013. In that role, he reported directly to Manfred. He first joined MLB in September 2007 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Labor.
Before joining MLB, Halem worked as a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department at the New York office of Proskauer, where he represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings as well as in state and federal litigations. As a part of Proskauer's Sports Law Group, Halem counseled MLB on collective bargaining issues related to its players and umpires and he represented individual Clubs in salary arbitration. Halem also represented and counseled the National Basketball Association, the Women's National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and the New York Jets of the National Football League prior to joining MLB.
Halem graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1988 and from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1991. He grew up in New Jersey and now resides with his family in New York.
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- Coordinator, Event Logistics
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- Director, Advertising and Digital Marketing
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- Vice President, Community Affairs & Executive Director, Atlanta Braves Foundation
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- Lead Consultant, Member Experience
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- Manager, Braves Clubhouse Store
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- Director, Member Experience
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- First Base Coach / First Base Coach
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- Assistant, Baseball Development
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- Trainee, Atlanta Braves Foundation
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- Analyst, Performance Science
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- Senior Coordinator, Ticket & Financial Operations
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- Special Assistant to the General Manager
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- Executive Assistant to Jill Robinson
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- Director, Corporate Partnerships
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- President and CEO, Atlanta
In his 20th season with the Atlanta Braves, President and Chief Executive Officer Derek Schiller manages all business and ballpark functions of the team. Schiller oversees revenue-driven areas including corporate partnerships, ticket sales, broadcasting, licensing, special events, retail merchandise, and concessions, plus all service-driven departments including client services, guest services, ticket operations, alumni relations, communications, community relations, marketing, people capital, and ballpark operations. As part of his role, Schiller sets the strategic vision for the Atlanta Braves, guides the Braves brand, champions innovation across all areas of the business, and manages the wide array of talented Braves employees.
Outside of the ballpark, Schiller and the executive team have guided the philosophy behind The Battery Atlanta to ensure a seamless integration with Truist Park, in both an aesthetic and strategic capacity. This new approach to adding a massive real estate development as part of a new ballpark has been recognized around the world.
Schiller has been a key factor in guiding the front office to further increase sales and visibility, improve customer service, and become an industry leader with innovations within the business of professional sports, particularly with business analytics and processes, fan engagement, and mobile ticketing and ordering. He also oversaw the addition of the team's diversity and inclusion marketing department, the first team in Major League Baseball to have a defined department within the diversity engagement space.
Under Schiller's direction, the Braves have introduced many technical developments including digital ticketing, variable and dynamic pricing, and a Customer Relationship Management system that has enhanced customer service and data management for both corporate partners and ticket holders. During his tenure, the organization has also placed a focus on expanding fan outreach by creating engaging content on all social media platforms.
Schiller works closely and collaboratively with Braves Chairman Terry McGuirk, President of Baseball Operations Alex Anthopoulos and President of Braves Development Company Mike Plant.
Additionally, Schiller oversees all broadcasting relationships, which include Braves television partner Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast, as well as the team's radio partner, Dickey Broadcasting, and the Braves Radio Network of affiliates across the Southeast.
As part of the Braves' executive leadership team, Schiller was instrumental in securing plans for Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta and played a pivotal role throughout the design and execution phases of the project. Collaborating with Truist Park planners and architects, Schiller and the executive team tailored the ballpark to authentically represent the organization and its rich history, while creating unique gameday experiences for fans and visitors. Schiller's emphasis on innovation was the driving force behind many of these enhancements, along with technology partnerships that made Truist Park the most technologically advanced venue in all of sports.
Schiller joined the Braves in November 2003 as senior vice president of sales and marketing and was promoted to executive vice president of sales and marketing in August 2007. He came to the Braves after serving as vice president of sales and marketing for the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team since 1998. In that position, he led the development of the Thrashers as an expansion franchise in the National Hockey League, which included the management of all business operations and marketing.
Before joining the Thrashers, Schiller served as vice president of business development for the New York Yankees from 1996 to 1997. While there, he was responsible for all revenue-producing and related functions, including sponsorship sales, marketing, ticket and suite sales, publications, concessions and merchandising, fan services and licensing. He was instrumental in putting together one of the largest sponsorship deals in sports between the Yankees and Adidas.
Schiller earned a degree in engineering from Vanderbilt University. He is on the board of directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, serves as an executive board member of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, and is a board member of the Atlanta Sports Council, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, and the Jack and Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation. He also serves on the Truist Atlanta Advisory Council and a number of MLB committees.
Schiller is an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta and supports several metro Atlanta charities. Schiller and his wife, Kristin, live in Atlanta and have two children, Luke and Carson.
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- Coordinator, Partnership Services
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- Senior Director, Baseball Administration
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- Assistant Director, Major League Operations
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- Director Medical Services Emeritus
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- Director, Corporate Partnerships
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- Account Executive, Ticket Sales
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- Coordinator, Promotions & Events
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- Manager, Digital Marketing
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- Manager, Minor League Operations
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- Vice President, Field / Grounds
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- Major League Coach / Major League Coach
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- Senior Director, Human Resources
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- Senior Ticket Manager, North Port
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- Administrative Assistant, Latin American Operations
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- Executive Assistant to Alex Anthopoulos
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- Consultant, Member Experience
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- Sales Associate, Ticket Sales
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- Coordinator, Ticket Operations
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- Assistant Manager, Equipment and Clubhouse Services / Assistant Manager, Equipment and Clubhouse Services
- Manager, Clubhouse Operations
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- Senior Vice President, Facility Operations
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- Bullpen Coach / Bullpen Coach
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- Assistant Director of Turf Maintenance
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- Director, Diversity Marketing
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- Consultant, Group & Hospitality Sales
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- Senior Analyst, Research & Development
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- Executive Assistant to Greg Heller
Francisco Romero enters his 16th season of play-by-play on the Astros Spanish radio network and has called over 2,000 games in his career, including six no-hitters and a perfect game. Francisco and partner Alex Treviño are one of the longest-tenured broadcast duos in the Majors. The two have been a team since 2008, and have called 92 postseason games since 2017, which is the most in baseball in that span.
Prior to coming to Houston, he spent five seasons broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers games in Spanish on Telemundo Wisconsin. His MLB broadcasting experience also includes select Minnesota Twins games over five seasons (2003-08).His Major League broadcast debut was for the Arizona Diamondbacks on Telemundo Arizona in 1999, and he spent two years on Diamondbacks broadcasts from 1999-2000.
Other Major League broadcasting experience includes select games on Spanish Radio with the Cincinnati Reds in 2005. Francisco also spent four seasons as the play-by-play broadcaster and pre- and postgame show producer on Spanish radio broadcasts for the Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders of the Pacific Coast League.
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- Director, Baseball Player Relations
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- Manager, Visiting Clubhouse
- Manager, Visiting Clubhouse / Manager, Visiting Clubhouse
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- Senior Manager, Production Producer
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- Assistant Director, Baseball Systems
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- Senior Director, Security Operations
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- Third Base Coach / Third Base Coach
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- Assistant General Manager
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- Vice President, Communications
Geoff Blum returns for his 11th season with the Astros TV broadcast team in 2023, which will be his eighth as the everyday color analyst for Astros telecasts. Geoff, who retired after 14 Major League seasons as an infielder (1999-2012), made the transition from the playing field to the broadcast booth in 2013. Geoff has won two Lone Star Emmys for his work on Astros broadcasts.
During his playing career, Geoff had two stints with the Astros, totaling five seasons in Houston (2002-03, 2008-10). Over the course of his tenure with the Astros, Geoff hit .259 with 228 RBI, 46 homers, 77 doubles and a .711 OPS.
A switch-hitter, Geoff was known as one of the top pinch-hitters and utility players in baseball, appearing at all four infield positions in nine straight years (2000-08). He appeared in the postseason three times in his career (2005-06, 2011).
Geoff was originally drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1994 June Draft. Prior to his professional career, Geoff was a standout at the University of California, Berkeley. He also played a season in the Cape Cod League.
Geoff and his wife, Kory, have four daughters: Mia Lea and triplets Ava, Audrey, and Kayla.
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- Senior Director, Entertainment & Events
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- Director of Player Health / Head Athletic Trainer / Director of Player Health / Head Athletic Trainer
- Director, Player Health / Head Athletic Trainer
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- Senior Coordinator, Ticket Operations
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- Coordinator, Event Services
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- Business Development Assistant
Greg Heller - Chief Legal Officer, EVP
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- Chief Legal Officer
- Executive Vice President
The 2023 season marks Greg Heller's 23rd as legal counsel to the Braves. As Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Heller manages and oversees all legal affairs for the Braves. Heller also has ultimate oversight for all legal issues related to Truist Park, The Battery Atlanta and for the Braves' spring training facility, CoolToday Park, and had ultimate oversight for all legal matters related to the negotiation, planning and development of all three projects for the Braves organization.
Heller's responsibilities and duties include providing guidance and counsel on baseball operations matters, sales and marketing, broadcasting, stadium and business operations, intellectual property, corporate governance, legislative affairs, employment and litigation.
Prior to serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Braves, Heller spent nearly seven years with the TBS sports legal group which included the Braves, the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Thrashers, Philips Arena, the Goodwill Games, the Turner Sports television group (and its NBA, NASCAR, PGA, British Open and MLB properties), and the Turner Sports new media group (and its NASCAR, PGA and PGA TOUR and ACC Select properties).
Heller began his career in sports law as an undergraduate at Indiana University where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Marketing/Management. While at Indiana, Heller completed internships with the Peoria Chiefs, a minor league affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, and with the Indiana University athletic department.
Upon graduating from IU, Heller entered law school at Marquette University. While at Marquette, Heller was an active participant in the sports law program, including serving as a member and Student Articles Editor of the Marquette Sports Law Journal, serving as a member of the Sports Law Society, authoring a law review article on the NCAA enforcement process and completing internships with the National Sports Law Institute, Harley Davidson, the Milwaukee Brewers and Reece & Lang PC, the legal division of an Atlanta-based sports management firm.
Upon graduating from Marquette, Heller became an Associate Attorney with the Atlanta firm of Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy (now part of Bryan Cave) where he concentrated his practice on general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities and sports and entertainment law matters from 1996 to 1997. In the Fall of 1997, Heller joined the Chicago law firm of Horwood Marcus & Berk and continued his practice in general corporate, mergers and acquisitions and sports and entertainment law matters before joining TBS in the Fall of 2000.
Heller serves on Advisory Boards at Marquette University Law School, Indiana University, Blessed Trinity Catholic High School and the Kennesaw State Athletics Association. In 2004, Heller was named by Marquette University as its Sports Law Alumnus Of The Year. In 2017, Heller was named the W.W. Patty Distinguished Alumnus by the Indiana University School of Public Health.
Heller and his wife, Krista, live in Roswell and have four children, Madelyn, Charlie, John and Elizabeth.
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- Senior Director, Alumni Relations & Growing the Game
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- Vice President, Marketing & Innovation
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- Director, Corporate Partnerships
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- Senior Vice President, Operations
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- Manager, Promotions & Events
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- Coordinator, Social Media
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- Senior Warehouse Manager, North Port
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- Senior Manager, Legal Services
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- Senior Director of Food & Beverage, North Port
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- Administrator, Human Resources
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- Coordinator, Ticket Operations
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- Developer, Baseball Systems
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- Senior Developer, Baseball Systems
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- Consultant, New Ticket Initiatives
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- Director, Field Operations
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- Senior Director, Research & Development
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- Analyst, Major League Operations
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- Process Analyst, Technology
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- Account Manager, Corporate Partnership
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- Manager, Corporate Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Special Projects
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, North Port Security
Job Titles:
- Senior Coordinator, Event Services
Job Titles:
- Director, Baseball Communications
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Executive Operations
Job Titles:
- Deputy General Counsel
- Vice President
Job Titles:
- Assistant General Manager
- Assistant General Manager, Research & Development
Job Titles:
- Manager, Premium Memberships
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Marketing
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Business Strategy and Analytics
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Bally Sports South & Bally Sports Southeast
- Lead Analyst for Bally Sports South
- National Analyst for TBS
Jeff Francoeur enters his sixth season as lead analyst for Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast. This is his seventh season overall as analyst for the networks.
A 12-year MLB veteran, Francoeur spent six seasons (2005-09, 2016) with the Atlanta Braves. Francoeur also played for the New York Mets (2009-10), Texas Rangers (2010), Kansas City Royals (2011-13), San Francisco Giants (2013), San Diego Padres (2014), Philadelphia Phillies (2015) and the Miami Marlins (2016).
In 2018, Francoeur also served as a game analyst for FOX Sports South's coverage of the ACC Baseball Championship.
Francoeur has served as a national analyst for TBS since 2019, calling regular season and postseason games on the network.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Baseball Communications
Job Titles:
- Manager, Clubhouse Operations
- Manager, Clubhouse Operations Manager, Clubhouse Operations
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Athletic Trainer
- Assistant Athletic Trainer / Assistant Athletic Trainer
Job Titles:
- Assistant Manager, Retail Store
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Communications & PR
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Human Resources
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, Development
Job Titles:
- Manager, Dominican Republic Facilities Operations
Job Titles:
- Director, Ticket Operations - Atlanta Braves & Truist Park
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President for McKesson Provider Technology
- Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of RelayHealth Pharmacy
Jill Robinson is in her sixth season with the Braves after joining the organization in April 2018 as chief financial officer and executive vice president.
In her role, Robinson oversees the Braves' entire accounting and finance operations, leading a team of 25 finance and accounting professionals. Robinson also manages the Braves' financial interests in The Battery Atlanta, the world-class mixed used real estate development located around Truist Park.
Prior to joining the Braves, Robinson worked for McKesson Corporation for 16 years in both San Francisco, Calif., and Atlanta, Ga., serving in a variety of roles for the Fortune 50 company. At the time of her departure, Robinson was the chief financial officer and senior vice president for McKesson Technology Solutions, a $3 billion healthcare technology company.
She began her career at McKesson in 2001 as a director in the procurement finance department, managing a team that provided all accounting and finance functions for the pharmaceutical purchasing organization. Robinson moved to a director's role in Investor Relations in April 2004, before she was promoted to Vice President of Internal Audit in November 2005.
In March 2010, Robinson became the chief financial officer and vice president of RelayHealth Pharmacy, growing a three-person department to a team of 35 during her tenure.
In November 2011, Robinson became the chief financial officer and senior vice president for McKesson Provider Technology, a company worth over $2 billion. Her team of 250 supported several acquisitions and subsequent integration efforts, while also sponsoring a major legal entity streamlining process.
She was named chief financial officer and senior vice president of McKesson Technology Solutions in February of 2013, and oversaw a team of over 350 for the next four-plus years until joining the Braves.
Robinson began her professional career in 1992 in Indianapolis with Deloitte & Touche, before serving as Controller for Tambourine, Inc., an independent record label, in San Francisco from 2000 to 2001.
A native of Naperville, Ill., Robinson graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in accountancy in 1992. She became a certified public accountant in November of that year.
Jill has always had a passion for career development and supporting women in the workforce, and has served as a founder and executive sponsor of McKesson women's employee resource groups, OWNIT-Bay Area and OWNIT-Georgia, and a founder and executive sponsor of the McKesson Career Development Council - Bay Area & Atlanta. Robinson was also a steering committee member on McKesson's Finance Rotational Development Program. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Atlanta CFO Forum, and in 2021, was recognized by the CFO Forum as Atlanta's Preeminent CFO. She is also on the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of ArtsNow.
Robinson lives in Johns Creek with her husband, Rob, and their two children, daughter, Chloe, and son, Tyler.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Corporate & Premium Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Director of Client Services, North Port
Job Titles:
- Director, Team Travel / Sr. Director, Team Travel
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Business Strategy
Job Titles:
- Director, Corporate Partnership
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Guest Services
Joe Simpson is in his 32nd season as an Atlanta Braves broadcaster. He was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame on January 27, 2018.
The 2023 season marks his 17th campaign calling games on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast, and he will also reprise his role as an analyst on radio broadcast this season, along with being an analyst on radio broadcast.
Simpson played professionally for 11 seasons, beginning in 1973 when he was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the third round. He joined the Seattle Mariners in 1979 before being traded to the Kansas City Royals in 1983. An outfielder and first baseman throughout his professional career, he retired from the California Angels organization following the 1984 season. He had his best season in 1979, when he hit .283 in 120 games for the Mariners. Simpson worked as an analyst on Seattle Mariners telecasts for five years before joining Turner Sports in 1992. Simpson was named "Georgia Sports Broadcaster of the Year" in 1995.
An All-American outfielder and first baseman at the University of Oklahoma, Simpson was born in Purcell, Oklahoma.
Joe and his wife Kathy live in Marietta, Ga. They have two children, Meg and Gabe, and one grandson.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Ticket Sales & Strategy
Job Titles:
- Director, Cyber Security & Infrastructure
Job Titles:
- Manager, Premium Memberships
Named Vice Chairman Emeritus by the Braves in 2018, John Schuerholz is in his 58th year in professional baseball and his 33rd season in Atlanta. He served as club president for eight and-a-half years before being named vice chairman in March 2016.
As president and then as vice chairman, Schuerholz was instrumental in the planning and building of Truist Park and the mixed-use development, The Battery Atlanta, which opened in April 2017.
Schuerholz received the game's highest honor in December 2016, when he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was formally inducted into the illustrious club in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 30, 2017.
Following 26 years as a Major League general manager, from 1982 to 2007, Schuerholz stepped aside as GM after the 2007 season and was named president of the Braves on October 11, 2007. He spent 17 seasons as the Braves' executive vice president and general manager, from 1991 to 2007.
Schuerholz came to the Braves from the Kansas City Royals in October 1990. Under his leadership and guidance as a GM, the Braves achieved unprecedented success, compiling the best record in baseball over those 17 seasons from 1991 to 2007 (1,594-1,092; .593). The Braves established an American professional sports record by winning 14 consecutive division titles from 1991 to 2005 (the 1994 season was not played to completion).
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Business Development
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Distribution Center
Job Titles:
- Director, Latin American Scouting
Job Titles:
- Director, Team Travel
- Director, Team Travel Director, Team Travel
Job Titles:
- Deputy General Counsel
- Senior Vice President
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Business Development
Job Titles:
- Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach / Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
Job Titles:
- Director, Marketing & Advertising
Job Titles:
- General Maintenance Technician II
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Research & Development
Job Titles:
- Special Assistant, Pitcher Performance
Job Titles:
- Account Executive, Member Experience
Job Titles:
- Pitching Coach / Pitching Coach
Job Titles:
- Television Sideline Reporter
Julia Morales returns for her 11th season as the Astros TV sideline reporter. As a reporter and anchor for Space City Home Network, Julia serves as the primary in-game reporter on Houston Astros telecasts. She has three Lone Star Emmys for her work covering the Astros.
Before moving to Houston, Julia worked as a sports reporter for Time Warner Cable News, formerly YNN in Austin, covering a wide range of events, including the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series, and the College Baseball WS.
Prior to joining the Time Warner Cable sports crew, Julia was the weekend sports anchor/reporter for KYTX-TV in Tyler, TX. Julia began her television career at KTEN-TV in Denison, Texas.
A native of Crandall, TX, Julia spent two years as a "World Famous Kilgore College Rangerette" before graduating from UT Austin, where she was a member of Texas Pom for the Longhorns' 2005 National Championship season.
Julia and husband Matt had their first baby in 2020 with the birth of daughter Valerie Rose.
Julia is extremely passionate about animals and serves on the Board of Directors for Houston Pets Alive!, a no-kill animal rescue. She and Matt foster rescue dogs in the offseason.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Business Strategy and Analytics
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Business Intelligence
Job Titles:
- Maintenance Technician III
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, BDC Marketing
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Member Experience
Job Titles:
- Representative, Human Resources
Job Titles:
- Director, Project Management
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer for Major League Baseball
Karin Timpone was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer for Major League Baseball in August 2021. Timpone oversees global marketing for the organization, working across all revenue, product and operations units, including the 30 independent Clubs, to connect and engage audiences as well as spearhead new initiatives to grow the next generation of MLB fans.
Timpone has an exceptional record in digital, marketing and customer experience, working at the forefront of brand transformation that enables the next generation of growth. She was Global Marketing Officer for Marriott International, where she led the creation of Marriott Bonvoy, tripling the audience of the top loyalty program in the travel hospitality category and leading the most comprehensive brand launch in the company's history. Karin was previously Senior Vice President for The Walt Disney Company, and introduced live streaming digital media on mobile devices years ahead of current market trends. Before that, Karin was Head of Marketing, Yahoo! Media Group and Head of Consumer/Customer Innovation. Prior to Yahoo!, Karin worked in global roles for Universal Studios as Senior Vice President and previously for its parent company, The Seagram Company Ltd.
A digital pioneer recognized by Adweek's roster of Top 50 in Media and Technology, Karin was recognized by Forbes, Business Insider, Ad Age and Adweek as one of the world's most influential CMOs. More recently, she expanded her expertise in the fintech arena, and served as founding CEO for a joint venture between a major financial institution and a media platform aimed at serving women. Timpone received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, her M.A. from New York University, and certification in Blockchain from MIT. She is a dual citizen, USA and Ireland.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Retail Buying Operations
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Marketing & Events
Job Titles:
- Manager, Gameday Staffing & Administration
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Marketing & Advertising
Job Titles:
- General Maintenance Technician
Job Titles:
- Manager, Software Development, R & D
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Partnership Services
Job Titles:
- Director, Corporate Partnership
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Growing the Game - Softball
Job Titles:
- Manager, Minor League Video & Technology
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Entertainment Marketing
Job Titles:
- Director, Business Development
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Guest Services
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Research & Development
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Braves Security
Job Titles:
- Trainee, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
Job Titles:
- Vice President, BDC Marketing
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Gameday Staffing & Administration
Job Titles:
- Trainee, Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Marketing Automation Coordinator, Growth
Job Titles:
- Merchandise Manager, North Port
Job Titles:
- Account Manager, Premium Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Fan Experience
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Business Operations
Job Titles:
- Assistant Manager, Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Physical Therapist
- Assistant Physical Therapist / Assistant Physical Therapist
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Senior Display Systems Engineer
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Operations
Matt Boltz enters his ninth season with the Houston Astros and his 23rd overall in Major League Baseball. Matt is the Radio Broadcast Engineer & Producer for the Astros Radio Network. He generates, maintains, and produces all live audio for the entire Spring Training, regular season & postseason schedule. Since 2015, Matt and the Astros broadcast team have produced more postseason games (92) than any other team in baseball.
In 2020, while MLB was on hold due to the pandemic, Matt started an entertaining Astros podcast, that featured current and former players as guests, with Astros broadcasters serving as hosts. Matt also orchestrates all broadcast material, live commercial inventory, promotions and live interviews with the broadcasters, the front office, the radio flagship and the entire radio network.
His offseason duties include editing and archiving all recorded sound, managing and servicing technical elements and assisting with network affiliate relations. Matt also engineers and produces Astroline, the Astros weekly offseason hot stove radio show which has been on the air since 1988.
Prior to joining the Astros, Matt served as the Radio Producer Engineer for the Chicago Cubs Radio Network from 2001-2014. During that time, he also engineered game broadcasts for WGN Chicago and Northwestern Wildcats basketball and football programs.
Matt resides in Pearland, Texas, with his wife, Melissa, and their two children: Emma Lucille and Theodore Matthew.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Director, IT Engineering & Architecture
Job Titles:
- Senior Sales Manager, North Port
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Corporate Partnership Sales
Job Titles:
- Director of Turf Maintenance, North Port
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, BDC Operations
Job Titles:
- Trainee, Retail Distribution
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Shipping & Receiving, Warehouse
Job Titles:
- Business Analytics Specialist
Job Titles:
- Assistant Controller, Atlanta
Job Titles:
- Director, Corporate Partnership
Job Titles:
- Digital Marketing Manager, BDC
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Social Media
Job Titles:
- Store Manager, Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Lead Developer, Baseball Systems
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Retail Marketing
Job Titles:
- Engineer, Performance Science
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Senior Vice President
Job Titles:
- Manager, Premium Memberships
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Workday Financial Systems
Job Titles:
- General Maintenance Technician II
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Baseball Development
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President
- Executive Vice President of Turner Sports
Mike Plant is in his 20th season with the Atlanta Braves, and his sixth as President and Chief Executive Officer of Development. Plant joined the organization as Executive Vice President of Business Operations in November of 2003.
In his role, Plant oversees the Braves real estate and development holdings including The Battery Atlanta, its development and project management teams, design, financing, construction and leasing activities. Braves and Battery security, life safety, parking and government relations are all consolidated under Plant's leadership. He also works with key Braves executives managing all Minor League Team operations and the new Spring Training complex in North Point, Florida.
As part of the Braves executive leadership team, Plant was instrumental in the Braves' efforts to secure and plan Truist Park and the adjacent mixed-use development, The Battery Atlanta, which opened in Cobb County in April 2017. The creative and innovative approach Plant led since inception has been recognized as a leading example of how to structure a successful Public/Private partnership now generating substantial returns for multiple government entities. Oversight and direct responsibility for managing all aspects of design, project management, financing, leasing and construction led to delivering approximately 2.5MM square feet in less than 36 months. A $300MM, 800,000 square foot phase 2 of The Battery Atlanta started in July 2018. The hallmark of this phase is led by thyssenkrupp, the global leader in urban mobility, and Papa John's Pizza creating their new headquarters at The Battery Atlanta.
Plant joined the Braves after having served as Executive Vice President of Turner Sports since February 2002. In that position, he was in charge of the day-to-day operations of the division, a $500-million acquisition, promotion and production company that at the time broadcast approximately 1,200 hours of sports programming on various Turner networks.
Before becoming Executive Vice President of Turner Sports, Plant was President of Ted Turner's multi-sport event, The Goodwill Games, and Vice President of Events for Turner Sports. He was responsible for the overall direction and management of The Goodwill Games, as well as all sports properties acquired by Turner Sports.
Prior to joining Turner Sports, Plant was Owner and President of Medalist Sports, a full-service sports marketing company he founded in 1988. Medalist Sports created and operated premier professional cycling events in the United States and China. In addition, Plant was the Associate Executive Director of the United States Cycling Federation in Colorado Springs, Colo., from 1986 to 1988 and the Executive Director of the Canoe and Kayak Team from 1985 to 1986.
Plant was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic speedskating team in Lake Placid, NY, and a six-time member of the U.S. World Championship speedskating teams. Since 1980, he has chaired numerous committees and boards for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), the U.S. International Speedskating Association, International Cycling Federation, and USA Cycling. Plant served on the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Olympic Games (ACOG) Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees for the Salt Lake City Olympic Bid Committee for the 2002 Winter Games.
Plant served two eight-year terms on the USOC's Board of Directors and Executive Committee (1984-1992 and 2003-2011). He was Chairman of the USOC Athletes Council, and Chairman of the Athlete Performance Group (1992-1996). Plant was President of USA Cycling, the National Governing Body for Olympic cycling, from 1995 to 2002, and President of U.S. Speedskating from 2013-2018.
Internationally, Plant served on the International Cycling Federation's (UCI) Executive Committee for 20 years, and was President of three different commissions. In 2009, Plant was elected U.S. Olympic Chef de Mission for the Olympic team for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
He and his wife Mary have two daughters, Erika and Maddie, and a son, Drew.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Team Travel
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Member Experience
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Baseball Communications
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Engineering
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Risk Management
Job Titles:
- Business Development Assistant
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant, Member Experience
Job Titles:
- Manager, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to Derek Schiller
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Athletic Trainer
- Assistant Athletic Trainer / Assistant Athletic Trainer
Job Titles:
- Manager, Business Development
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Player Health / Head Physical Therapist
- Assistant Director, Player Health / Head Physical Therapist / Assistant Director, Player Health / Head Physical Therapist
Job Titles:
- Office Manager, North Port
Job Titles:
- General Manager
- Vice President
Job Titles:
- Bench Coach / Bench Coach
Job Titles:
- Trainee, Premium Partnerships
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to Terry McGuirk
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Marketing Automation
Job Titles:
- Chief Communications Officer
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
Job Titles:
- Performance Nutritionist / Performance Nutritionist
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Ticket Sales
Job Titles:
- Assistant Strength Coach / Assistant Strength Coach
- Major League Assistant Strength Coach
Job Titles:
- Director, Platforms / Applications
Job Titles:
- Manager, Technical Product
Job Titles:
- Analyst
- LIVE Analyst, Bally Sports South & Bally Sports Southeast
- Manager of the Melbourne Aces
Peter Moylan is in his fifth season an analyst for Atlanta Braves games on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.
Moylan is an analyst on the Braves LIVE pre- and postgame shows and has been an analyst in the broadcast booth during the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Moylan also serves as the Manager of the Melbourne Aces, a professional team in the Australia Baseball League, beginning in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Business Communications
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Family Relations
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Ticket Sales
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant, Group & Hospitality Sales
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Digital Media Content
Job Titles:
- Manager, Baseball Video Operations
- Manager, Video Operations Manager, Video Operations
Job Titles:
- Commissioner
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Commissioner of Baseball
Robert Ford was named to the Astros radio broadcast team to work alongside Steve Sparks as the play-by-play commentator on Feb. 13, 2013. He enters his 11th season as the radio voice of the Astros. In their 10 seasons, the duo of Robert and Steve have called seven postseasons, including six ALCS and four World Series. The 92 postseason games that they have called in that span are the most in the Majors. This past offseason, Robert was named the 2022 Texas Sportscaster of the Year.
Prior to joining the Astros, Robert had served as the radio pre- and postgame host for Kansas City Royals games on 610 AM KCSP, the Royals flagship station, since 2009.
Robert has seven years of experience broadcasting minor league baseball, having called more than 800 games during stints with the Binghamton Mets, Kalamazoo Kings and Yakima Bears. In that span, Robert was twice named Frontier League Broadcaster of the Year (2003 and 2004). He also has extensive play-by-play experience in college basketball, including calling games for ESPN in recent years.
Robert is a 2001 graduate of Syracuse University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Robert has twice been a finalist for the Esurance MLB Award for "Best Call, TV/Radio," including in 2017 for his call of Alex Bregman's walk-off RBI single in Game 5 of the World Series.
Robert lives in Houston and has a daughter, Elena.
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Group & Hospitality Sales
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Deputy General Counsel
- Vice President
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Partnership Services
Job Titles:
- Director, Minor League Operations
Job Titles:
- Director, Amateur Scouting
Job Titles:
- Assistant Manager, Facilities
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Finance
Job Titles:
- Maintenance Technician III
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Communications
Job Titles:
- Assistant, International Player Development
Job Titles:
- Catching Coach / Catching Coach
Job Titles:
- Manager, Ballpark Tours, Braves Heritage & Hall of Fame
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Communications
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Fan Experience
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Head of Technology Services
Job Titles:
- Assistant, Player Development Video
Job Titles:
- Director, Group & Hospitality Sales
Job Titles:
- Assistant Manager, Family Relations
Job Titles:
- Senior Coordinator, Communications
Job Titles:
- Account Executive, Group & Hospitality Sales
Job Titles:
- Associate, Ticket Operations
Job Titles:
- Trainee, Partnership Services
Job Titles:
- Manager, Community Affairs & Atlanta Braves Foundation
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, New Ticket Initiatives
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Research & Development
Steve Sparks was named to the Astros radio broadcast team to work alongside Robert Ford as the color commentator on Feb. 13, 2013. He enters his 11th season on the Astros radio broadcast. Since 2015, Steve and partner Robert have called six ALCS' and four World Series. The 92 postseason games that they have called in that span are the most in the Majors.
A knuckleballer in his playing days, Steve pitched in the Major Leagues in parts of nine seasons (1995-2004) for the Brewers, Angels, Tigers, A's and Diamondbacks. His best season was in 2001 while with Detroit when he went 14-9 in 35 appearances (33 starts) with a 3.65 ERA while leading the Majors in complete games with eight. He also tallied a career high in innings pitched (232.0) that season.
Steve attended Sam Houston State University, where he helped lead the Bearkats to back-to-back Gulf Star Conference baseball titles and an NCAA Division II Regional playoff appearance in 1986 and again in the school's first year at the Division I level in 1987. On Nov. 3, 2017, Steve was inducted into the Sam Houston Letterman's Association Hall of Honor.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Stadium Operations
Job Titles:
- Manager, Retail Buyer & Merchandising
Job Titles:
- Senior Account Manager, Premium Memberships
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Event Logistics
Job Titles:
- Manager, Ticket Operations & Accessible Seating
Job Titles:
- Senior Coordinator, Entertainment & Events
Job Titles:
- Analyst, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman & CEO of Braves Holdings
Terry McGuirk is Chairman & CEO of Braves Holdings, LLC, the parent company of the Atlanta Braves and Braves Development Company. In his role as Chairman and Control Person of the Atlanta Braves, McGuirk maintains executive oversight of all aspects of the Braves franchise including all team and player personnel operations, business operations, Truist Park and representation of the Braves at Major League Baseball ownership meetings. McGuirk is also the Chairman of Braves Development Company, the Braves real estate development entity that owns and operates The Battery Atlanta mixed use development adjacent to Truist Park.
As executive vice president, McGuirk served as the company's second in command from 1991 to 1996. When TBS, Inc. merged with Time Warner Inc. in 1996, he succeeded R.E. (Ted) Turner as chairman, president and CEO.
McGuirk has served on the board of many cable industry-related groups and the International Olympic Committee's Radio and Television Commission. He was the 1989 recipient of the NCTA Vanguard Award for Young Leadership and was inducted into the fellowship of Cable Television Pioneers at the 1996 NCTA Convention.
A native of Bayshore, N.Y., McGuirk is a graduate of Portsmouth Abbey School and holds a bachelor of arts degree in American history from Middlebury College.
He is a Trustee Emeritus of both Piedmont Healthcare and The Westminster Schools. McGuirk was the 2000 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Stewart Lewengrub Torch of Liberty Award. In 2006, he received the Governors Award from the southeastern chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and, in 2010, he entered the Cable Television Hall of Fame.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Operations
Job Titles:
- Lead Maintenance Engineer
Job Titles:
- Game Analyst, Bally Sports South & Bally Sports Southeast
Glavine was selected as a pitcher by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 1984 MLB Amateur Draft and made his big league debut in 1987. He played 22 MLB seasons, including 17 with the Braves (1987-2002, 2008) and five with the New York Mets (2003-2007).
Glavine owns a 305-203 career record and compiled 244 of his victories with the Atlanta Braves. He is a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner (1991 & 1998) and a ten-time National League All-Star.
Glavine was named Most Valuable Player of the 1995 World Series when the Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians.
A five-time 20-game winner, Glavine joined the 300-win club with an 8-3 victory over the Cubs in 2007.
Glavine was inducted into Braves Hall of Fame in 2010 and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.
Job Titles:
- First Base Coach / First Base Coach
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Merchandising & Retail Operations
Job Titles:
- Manager, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Major League Game Planning Coach / Major League Game Planning Coach
Job Titles:
- Assistant Manager, Clubhouse Operations
Job Titles:
- Member of the MLB Executives Team
- Chief Baseball Development Officer
Job Titles:
- Hitting Coach / Hitting Coach
Job Titles:
- Assistant, Player Development Technology
Job Titles:
- Special Assistant, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Partnership Services
Job Titles:
- POS Systems Administrator
Job Titles:
- Digital Media Content Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Bench Coach / Infield Coach / Bench Coach / Infield Coach
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Business Development
Job Titles:
- Associate, Ticket Operations
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Major League Operations
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Event Logistics
Job Titles:
- Manager, Technical Accounting