{"id":84003,"date":"2020-09-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-leaders-across-professional-sports-teams-leagues-and-unions-come-together-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-pro-sports-assembly\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:33:02","slug":"lideres-de-equipos-deportivos-profesionales-ligas-y-sindicatos-se-unen-para-lanzar-la-primera-asamblea-de-deportes-profesionales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/lideres-de-equipos-deportivos-profesionales-ligas-y-sindicatos-se-unen-para-lanzar-la-primera-asamblea-de-deportes-profesionales\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Across Professional Sports Teams, Leagues And Unions Come Together To Launch First-Of-Its-Kind &#8216;Pro Sports Assembly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 10, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Today a group of esteemed sports business executives have united to launch a first-of-its-kind, industry-wide, and mission-driven community called Pro Sports Assembly (&#8220;The Assembly&#8221;) &#8211; a 501(c)(3) organization for people who work in professional sports which aims by 2030 to achieve parity in opportunity, pay and leadership amongst its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to keep leagues, teams and unions both knowledgeable and accountable for delivering an equitable and profitable future in professional sports organizations \u2013 The Assembly is a member-led community that challenges its industry to advance diverse and inclusive leadership. It believes that by developing cultural and gender intelligence, as well as setting best practices of stewardship, mentorship and allyship, professional sports properties can drive innovation, bolster financial performance, capture new markets and increase brand loyalty. The Assembly is aggressive in its vision and stance to create the future of its industry through the #PowerofProSports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are united in game plan, and diverse in council,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Shareef Abdur-Rahim<\/span>, President of NBA G League and Founding Advisory Board Member of The Assembly. &#8220;We organized our Founding Boards to represent the diversity that our industry-at-large needs to see. In order to truly advance collectively &#8211; we must use an equity lens in leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important for us to identify and develop the next generation of our industry&#8217;s top talent,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Alex Chang<\/span>, Chief Marketing Officer of <span class=\"xn-org\">San Francisco<\/span> 49ers and Founding Governing Board Member of The Assembly. &#8220;This requires breaking down traditions, norms and biases that currently exist &#8211; and replacing them with new and refined processes that will help guide decisions impacting the future of professional sports and the career paths of its employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For every five athletes you see on the field of play, there are 95 people behind the scenes bringing that game to life,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Laura Dixon<\/span>, Head of External Relations for Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment, and Founding Governing Board Member of The Assembly. &#8220;The people who work for professional sports teams, leagues and unions now have a place to connect and collaborate on the critical issues facing our industry. The larger our membership, the more impactful we can be in our purpose of advancing diverse, productive and inclusive leadership. The power of pro sports is truly in its people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See below a complete list of The Assembly&#8217;s Founding Board Members (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<p><b><u>ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS<br \/><\/u><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Loughnane<\/span> &#8211; President, <span class=\"xn-person\">Austin FC<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Cynt Marshall<\/span> &#8211; CEO, <span class=\"xn-person\">Dallas Mavericks<\/span><br \/>Ese Ighedosa &#8211; President, House of Athlete<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Hugh Weber<\/span> &#8211; President, <span class=\"xn-person\">Harris Blitzer Sports<\/span> &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Jessica Berman<\/span> &#8211; Deputy Commissioner, National Lacrosse League<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Kenneth Shropshire<\/span> &#8211; CEO, Global Sport Institute, <span class=\"xn-org\">Arizona State University<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Kyle Bunch<\/span> \u2013 Vice President\/Managing Director, Global Sports Venture Studios<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Len Perna<\/span> &#8211; CEO, Turnkey Search<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Michele Roberts<\/span> &#8211; Executive Director, National Basketball Players Association<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Shareef Abdur-Rahim<\/span> &#8211; President, NBA G-League<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Shelley Zalis<\/span> &#8211; CEO, The Female Quotient<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Theresa Tran<\/span> &#8211; Founder, The Offense<br \/>Tom Glick &#8211; President, <span class=\"xn-person\">Tepper Sports<\/span> &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Xavier Gutierrez<\/span> &#8211; CEO, Arizona Coyotes\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b><u>GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS<br \/><\/u><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Alex Chang<\/span> &#8211; Chief Marketing Officer, <span class=\"xn-org\">San Francisco<\/span> 49ers<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Alison Roscoe<\/span> &#8211; Vice President, Partnerships, Austin FC<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Ann Seeney<\/span> &#8211; Vice President, Human Resources, St. Louis Cardinals<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Antony Bonavita<\/span> &#8211; Executive Vice President, Venue Operations, <span class=\"xn-person\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon James<\/span> \u2013 Vice President of Basketball Administration\/Deputy General Counsel, Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Brittanie Boyd<\/span> &#8211; Vice President, Corporate Partnerships, <span class=\"xn-person\">Harris Blitzer Sports<\/span> &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Cassandra Carr<\/span> &#8211; Investor, Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Dan Gladstone<\/span> &#8211; Senior Vice President, THINK450\/National Basketball Players Association<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Dionna Widder<\/span> &#8211; Chief Revenue Officer, Houston Dynamo\/<span class=\"xn-person\">Houston Dash<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Keisha Wyatt<\/span> &#8211; Director of Marketing, <span class=\"xn-person\">Dallas Mavericks<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Laura Dixon<\/span> &#8211; Head of External Relations, Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Molly Wurdack-Folt<\/span> &#8211; Vice President, Partnerships, Detroit Tigers\/Detroit Red Wings<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Oracio Galindo<\/span> &#8211; Head of Employee Experience, Los Angeles Rams<br \/>Raquel &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Egusquiza &#8211; Executive Director, Miami Marlins Foundation<\/p>\n<p>In its first year, The Assembly will formalize its member network and provide professional development, as well as hold virtual forums, workshops and discussions. In addition, it will commission research, share tools and develop analytics around key indicators in professional sports &#8211; to be distributed amongst the membership as a benchmark and playbook towards ensuring a more fairly functioning workplace.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit: <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2913657-1&amp;h=2018537095&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prosportsassembly.org%2F&amp;a=www.prosportsassembly.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.prosportsassembly.org<\/a><\/u> (Website), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2913657-1&amp;h=1428311011&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fprosportsassembly%2F&amp;a=%40prosportsassembly\" rel=\"nofollow\">@prosportsassembly<\/a> (Instagram), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2913657-1&amp;h=4006680363&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftheproassembly&amp;a=%40theproassembly\" rel=\"nofollow\">@theproassembly<\/a> (Twitter), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2913657-1&amp;h=927703639&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fprosportsassembly&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fprosportsassembly\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/prosportsassembly<\/a> (LinkedIn).<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Pro Sports Assembly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 10, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Today a group of esteemed sports business executives have united to launch a first-of-its-kind, industry-wide, and mission-driven community called Pro Sports Assembly (&#8220;The Assembly&#8221;) &#8211; a 501(c)(3) organization for people who work in professional sports which aims by 2030 to achieve parity in opportunity, pay and leadership amongst its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to keep leagues, teams and unions both knowledgeable and accountable for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deportes-y-recreacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}