Michael Kelly Email & Phone Number

Michael Kelly is the Vice President for Athletics at the University of South Florida where he leads the department of intercollegiate athletics. He serves over 500 student-athletes and 200 staff members in a program that includes 21 different sports and has collectively won 150 conference championships in USF history. Kelly has the distinction of being the only person to be the lead local executive for three Super Bowls in three different cities. He served as the president and CEO for the Super Bowl Host Committee in Tampa in 2001; Jacksonville in 2005; and Miami in 2007. His experience also includes serving as the senior associate commissioner at the Atlantic Coast Conference for six years where he oversaw football, communications, and broadcasting. From 2012 to 2018, he was the first chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff where he ran the day-to-day operations of the organization and oversaw all aspects of sponsorship, broadcasting, and game/festival operations for the New Year’s Six Bowls, National Semifinals, and the National Championship. He was also the Executive Director of the 1999 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four Organizing Committee when the event was held in St. Petersburg—the only time in history that the state of Florida hosted the event.Michael holds an honorary doctorate in business administration and a master’s degree in sports administration from St. Thomas University (Miami, FL) and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Wake Forest University (Magna Cum Laude). He is currently a doctoral student in the DBA program at the University of South Florida.