Center for Sports Business and Research Advisory Board

Members of the Center for Sports Business and Research Advisory Board are listed below.

Ernest W. Accorsi Jr.
Former General Manager, New York Giants; NFL Consultant

Prateek Alsi, '01
Director, Portal and Advertising Development, Time Warner Cable

Kimberly A. Armor, ’90
CFO and Senior Vice President, Versus Network

Lisa P. Baird, ’82, ’84, M.B.A.
Former Senior Vice President of Marketing, NFL

Chris M. Bevilacqua, ’86
Principal, Sports Capital Partners Worldwide

Tim Curley, '76, '78
Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Penn State

Michael Felici, '83
General Manager, Penn State Sports Properties/Learfield Sports

John Genzale
Columnist, Street and Smith's SportsBusiness Journal

Chuck Greenberg
Managing Partner, Altoona Curve LP; Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP

Rick Janac
General Manager, State College Spikes

Dean J. Jordan
Senior Vice President, Wasserman Media Group

David Krone
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Comcast

Jim Meister, '59
Vice President, Sales, ALCOA (ret.); Penn State Athletic Department (ret.)

Malcolm Moran
Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State College of Communications; Director, The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State

Gregory J. Myford, ’86
Associate Athletic Director for Marketing and Communications, Penn State

Jesse B. Neumyer, ’03, ’05, M.B.A.
Alliance Sports Capital

Jim Plake, '80
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Pittsburgh Pirates

John Powell, '65
Former Associate Athletic Director, Penn State

Darren Rovell
Author and Sports Business Reporter, CNBC 

Jeffrey T. Schmal, ’05 M.B.A.
Senior Marketing Director, Outdoor Channel

Tom Sharbaugh, '66
President, Leapnet, Inc.; Anheuser Busch Brand Manager (ret.) 

Michael D. Stevens, ’96 
President, PGA Champions Tour

Vernal Taylor, III, ’98 M.B.A.
Senior Manager, Global Marketing Partnerships, National Basketball Association.

Edward Weber, Jr., ’92
Senior Vice President and CFO, MLB Advanced Media