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John Browne

President
JMB Sports & Entertainment



John Browne is a professional sports executive with over 25 years experience building winning sales, marketing and management teams. Currently Browne runs JMB Sports and Entertainment a consulting company that partners with sports and entertainment organizations to grow their businesses by improving efficiency, productivity, identifying new business opportunities and developing strategies and tactics to maximize revenue growth and organizational performance.  
 
Prior to starting JMB Sports and Entertainment, Browne served as Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of the Columbus Blue Jackets overseeing  the organization’s season, group and single game ticket sales as well as all marketing, digital marketing, community relations, broadcasting and fan development.
Before joining the Columbus Blue Jackets, Browne served as vice president, club consulting and services for the National Hockey League. In that position, Browne worked with league and club executives on a daily basis promoting the very best business practices in the major revenue generating areas of corporate sponsorship, premium seating & suites and ticket sales.
 
Prior to joining the League office, Browne served as the executive vice president and chief sales officer for the Phoenix Coyotes, National Lacrosse League’s Arizona Sting and Jobing.com Arena and was responsible for the company’s corporate partnership, premium seating and ticket sales and services departments. He was responsible for securing the naming rights agreement for Jobing.com Arena. Prior to his stint in Phoenix, he spent eight years with Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, including serving as vice president of marketing and broadcasting from 1999-2005. He originally joined the organization as director of corporate sales in 1997.
 
Before joining the Rays, Browne spent six years with the Chicago White Sox organization, the first three years as general manager of major league spring training operations and their Class A Sarasota Club, where he was named Florida State League Executive of the Year in 1993. Browne oversaw spring training operations for the club during the years Bo Jackson made his comeback and Michael Jordan pursued a professional baseball career. Browne moved up to Chicago in 1994 and served as the team’s manager of sponsorship sales and broadcast operations. Browne began his career in 1988 when he served as the general manager of the Burlington (NC) Indians, Cleveland’s rookie league affiliate.
 
A native of Wayne, New Jersey, Browne is a summa cum laude graduate of St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York. He and his wife, Anne, are the parents of sons, John III and Patrick.