Jeffrey Pollack

Background

About Jeffrey Pollack

Jeffrey Pollack is an Emmy Award winner and sports and entertainment investor, advisor, and executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience driving catalytic change, growth, and innovation for family-owned, private-equity-backed, and corporate-based ventures. He is President of Sports Business Associates, Professor of Practice at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, and Non-Executive Director at Centtrip Limited. Jeffrey served as President and CEO of the XFL, and has held senior leadership roles with the Los Angeles Chargers, PBR, World Series of Poker, NASCAR, and National Basketball Association. He was the Founder and first President and Publisher of The Sports Business Daily – the original and leading daily trade publication for the sports industry. Jeffrey has been lauded for helping businesses and brands rethink, recalibrate, and evolve. Jeffrey began his career as a legislative assistant and human rights advocate in Washington, DC, and then served as a political campaign manager and crisis communications consultant for Winner + Associates and the affiliated firm of Winner + Mandabach Campaigns. He has a bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, a master's degree from The Graduate School of Political Management, and a master's degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jeffrey is Chair of the Community Advisory Board of 90.7 WFUV Radio in New York, member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Accredited Member of the Public Relations Society of America, and serves on the Board of Advisors the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission.