Episode 54: Kasia Horner Public Affairs and Communications The Coca-Cola Company
Kasia Horner is a Director in the Public Affairs and Communications function at The Coca-Cola Company. In her more than 16-year career with The Coca-Cola Company, Kasia has lead sports marketing activation for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In her role, Kasia set strategic direction, managed key college sports partnerships with the NCAA, Turner Sports, and CBS and led the execution of the NCAA March Madness sports marketing campaign. Her experience using multiple media platforms, including television, digital, social media, in-venue fan engagement and experiential marketing techniques to drive awareness and participation.
Episode 53: Cory Moss Executive VP and Managing Director, CLC
Cory Moss joined CLC in 1995 and been instrumental in growing the company’s licensing business, but more importantly, led its re-engineering over the last several years to better align with the changing retail marketplace. CLC represents more than 700 colleges and universities, conferences, bowls, the NCAA, the Heisman Trophy and the College Football Playoff. He was a previous member of the NCAA Football Marketing Committee, NCAA Youth Football Committee, and Board of Directors of Hampton University’s Center for Sport Leadership. Cory currently serves on the Board of Directors for the John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation, and Board Chair for the Atlanta-area March of Dimes.
Episode 52: Steve Koonin Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club
Steve Koonin is the Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club. Koonin, oversees all business, financial and strategic operations of the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena, he also represents the owners as the head of the organization. Koonin joined the Hawks after spending the previous 14 years with Turner Entertainment Networks. Among his many accomplishments, Koonin is a former SportsBusiness Journal Sports Executive of the Year.
Episode 51: Randy Bernard Co-Manager Garth Brooks
Randy Bernard is the currently the manager of Garth Brooks and has been for almost 5 years. He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before starting his professional journey. Randy has held positions with different companies such as The CEO of Professional Bull Riders (PBR), The CEO of Indy Car and CEO and President of RMG. Randy is also a Board Member for the National Cowboy and Heritage Museum and TeamMates for Kids.
Episode 50: Michael Smith College Sports Reporter for Sports Business Journal
The leading reporter covering the dynamic business of college sports, Michael Smith joined Sports Business Journal in 2006 after having spent 18 years with daily newspapers, most recently covering the University of Kentucky basketball program for the Louisville Courier-Journal. His résumé also includes stints covering the University of South Carolina and the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
Episode 49: Eric Jackson Sports Business Reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle
Eric Jackson is the Sports Business Reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Eric graduated from Valdosta State University with a degree in Journalism. While at Valdosta State he was the sports editor for the Spectator engineering the newspaper’s sports coverage and content. Eric has been an Game Day intern with the Atlanta Dream, a media coordinator for the Atlanta Tennis Championships, freelance writer for Appen Newsletter, a contributing writer for Peach State Sports and a sports reporter for Lake City Reporter.
Episode 48: David Adler Chairman and Founder of BizBash
David Adler is the Chairman and Founder of BizBash. BizBash is the leading trade media for the event industry. BizBash publishes magazines and e-newsletters, hosts Web sites, and produces trade shows, conferences, and award shows for corporate event and meeting professionals, event marketers, and sales, PR, fund-raising, and human resource executives.
Episode 47: Dennis Dodd Sports Reporter CBS Sports
Dennis Dodd has covered college football for CBS Sports since it was CBS SportsLine in 1998. He is one of only seven media members to attend all 16 BCS title games and has chronicled conference realignment as well as the start of the College Football Playoff. Dennis has dabbled in NFL, MLB and NHL and believes the College World Series is severely under appreciated. He is a Missouri grad and former award-winning FWAA president. Dennis previously worked for numerous outlets including The National and the Kansas City Star.
