Alex Morgan, Diplo To Headline Selection Sports activities & Leisure Occasion

Selection’s annual Sports activities & Leisure Breakfast, introduced by Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, will return on July 17 in Los Angeles. 

This 12 months’s programming will function a Fireplace Chat with two-time World Cup champion and Olympic Gold Medal winner Alex Morgan, alongside Dan Levy, EVP, the collective & Olympics, Wasserman. Diplo, the Grammy Award-winning producer, DJ, entrepreneur and founding father of Diplo’s Run Membership, might be joined by his administration crew for a dialog, together with Renee Brodeur, associate & EVP, TMWRK Administration; Sam Hunt, EVP & managing govt, Wasserman Music; and Todd Palmerton, VP expertise, occasion & IP Creation, Wasserman. 

Randie Brooks, senior vp and crew chief with Leisure & Sports activities Banking, Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution will interview Tina Thornton, EVP, artistic studio and advertising, ESPN and Mina Kimes, NFL analyst, senior author, podcast host and tv contributor, ESPN about their imaginative and prescient for the platform’s new streaming service launching this fall. 

The “Girls Sports activities within the Zeitgeist” panel will function voices who’re taking girls’s sports activities to new heights, together with Jennifer Cohen, athletic director, USC; Jessica Hammond-Graf, president, Girls’s Elite Rugby; Liz Grey, co-head, CAA Model Consulting, CAA; Susie Piotrkowski, VP, girls’s sports activities programming & head of espnW; and Ilona Aman, CMO, Athleta.

Different programming consists of the “Sports activities Programming Visionaries” panel which has prime executives in programming exploring how the style is evolving. Headlining that panel is: Colin Campbell, Head of Improvement, Omaha Productions; John Dahl, SVP content material, NASCAR; Gotham Chopra, filmmaker and co-founder, Faith of Sports activities; Meredith Batten, VP head of content material planning and programming, NFL; Stephanie Medina, director, FOX NFL Sunday, Fox Sports activities; Jon Miller, president, acquisitions & partnerships, NBC Sports activities. 

“At Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, we’re devoted to serving the monetary wants of athletes, entertainers and the organizations that help them,” mentioned JaHan Wang, govt vp and head of Leisure & Sports activities Banking at Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution. “That’s why we’re honored to proceed our partnership with Selection’s Sports activities & Leisure Breakfast, which serves as a catalyst for connection between these industries and drives significant conversations for what’s subsequent in sports activities and leisure.” 

“We’re honored to carry collectively these distinctive leaders and creators who’re actively shaping the way forward for sports activities and leisure,” mentioned Dea Lawrence, Chief Working and Advertising Officer, Selection. “Thanks to Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution for his or her continuous partnership.”