Jim Connelly Email & Phone Number

Canton, Ohio Area

Part of interim leadership team responsible for driving revenue growth (event programming, sponsorships, etc.) at mixed-use destination project surrounding Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame Village, described as a "Disneyland" of football is a first ever year round destination for football fans, families, youth sports, corporates and football themed entertainment attractions. $900MM project includes world class Tom Benson stadium, and to come new 4 star hotel, 5,000 seat indoor performance center, NFL themed indoor waterpark and NFL Experience, retail promenade, youth sports complex and more.Led alliance partnership business that generated $25M in new revenues and capital offsets through multi-year agreements with Constellation and First Data.

Ny/Atlanta

As SVP Special Projects IMG College, transformed business priorities for #1 college licensor Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) that represented 180+ power five universities. Created a new consumer facing, data driven school brand narrative and licensee supply model that achieved a record number of school renewals; drove 15%+ increases in retail sales, and delivered over $160M in annual royalty revenues to university partners. Also spearheaded new business development with Amazon that drove 190% increase in wholesale college shipments, and led the successful negotiation to secure a 6 year agency assignment with the then new college football playoffs (CFP).

As the SVP at WWE working directly for Vince McMahon, oversaw Mattel's WWE toy line introduction deemed the second most successful launch in the toy maker's history that doubled WWE retail toy sales to $250M annually. Also credited with selling the first-ever $3M WWE live event tour sponsorship. Helped rebuild the WWE online retail store with new Facebook and mobile applications; doubled WWE retail product sales to $150M at Walmart, and created and distributed new home entertainment content that drove a 1,000% increase in digital revenues.

-Executive search, career counseling, strategic consulting,marketing and sales services, business planning and development, investment/fund raising.

Part of the team that brought the NFL’s first ever regular season game to a sold-out Wembley stadium in Europe; launched the international "American Bowl" exhibition games series attended by over 1 million fans, and as Managing Director of NFL Europe League built and launched two new franchises, fueled record gains in attendance and sponsorship, and structured the first NFL Europe Advisory Board including the chairman of Lufthansa, Daimler Chrysler and Citigroup. As head of NFL Consumer Products, increased annual net royalty income by 35% to $150M and launched NFL Home, NFL Kids, and NFL Women's collections and negotiated the NFL's then first-ever league wide apparel and team-uniform agreements with Nike, Adidas and Reebok.

Oversaw marketing and sales planning with P&L accountability for the QE2.

Marketing manager on flagship brand Colgate toothpaste.

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