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The Sports Council is made up of hundreds of individual and corporate members and is guided by a Board of Directors under the direction of Chairman Alan I. Rothenberg and President David Simon.
The Sports Council itself was an outgrowth of the success of the 1984 Olympic Games, where Simon served as a Vice President and Founding Chairman John Argue as a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
Argue became chairman and Simon was named president when the Sports Council was incorporated in 1988 and Argue continued as chair until his untimely death in 2002.
 Current officers:
- Chair: Alan I. Rothenberg
One of the nation's most respected litigation attorneys and a former president of the State Bar of California is also one of the world's outstanding sports executives. That describes Alan I. Rothenberg, now chairman of First Century Bank, chairman of Premier Partnerships, a sports/entertainment marketing and consulting firm, a retired partner at the firm of Latham & Watkins and the current chairman of the Los Angeles Sports Council.
Rothenberg began his sports career assisting Lakers, Kings and Forum owner Jack Kent Cooke in legal matters and served as a member of the National Basketball Association Board of Governors from 1971-79 (on behalf of the Lakers) and from 1982-90 (on behalf of the Los Angeles Clippers).
But he is most noted for his work in soccer, beginning in 1977 as the owner of the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League (through 1980) and then in 1984 as commissioner for the wildly-successful soccer tournament in the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles.
That post led to his chairmanship of the historic 1994 World Cup, the first ever played in the United States, that set records for attendance and financial performance. Based on that success, Rothenberg helped found Major League Soccer, the U.S. professional league, and served as president of the U.S. Soccer Federation. He also chaired the organizing committee for the breakthrough women's event of the 1990s: the 1999 Women's World Cup, which set new highs for attendance and interest in an all-women's sporting event.
Rothenberg was elected chairman of the Sports Council in 2002, following the death of founding chairman John Argue, also a well-known attorney in Los Angeles. His civic efforts have extended to leadership of the Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau, participation on the Board of Governors of the Music Center of Los Angeles County and past presidency of the Constitutional Rights Foundation.
Rothenberg graduated from the University of Michigan in 1960 and earned his Juris Doctor with distinction from Michigan in 1963. He and his wife Georgina, a noted artist, live in Los Angeles.
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Vice-Chair: Richard W. Cook
Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios |
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Vice-Chair: Robert S. Rollo
Partner, Heidrick & Struggles |
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Secretary: Anita L. DeFrantz
President, LA84 Foundation |
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Treasurer: Sheldon I. Ausman
Director of Client Services,
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- President: David Simon
From the halls of government to the fields of America's greatest stadia, David Simon has managed the agendas of high-profile government officials, Olympic organizers and the Los Angeles Sports Council.
Simon helped to create the Sports Council in 1987 and 1988 and has served as its President ever since. Under his leadership, the Sports Council has brought events to Southern California with an economic impact of more than $1 billion, while expending just $7 million in administrative expense! In addition, the Sports Council Foundation has provided thousands of underprivileged Southern California youngsters with opportunities to attend college and professional football games since 1993, offering entertainment and a glimpse of the attractions of collegiate life.
Simon's career in sports started auspiciously, as one of the earliest hires of Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee President Peter Ueberroth in 1979. During the course of five years in the organization of the most revolutionary Games of the modern era, Simon rose to the rank of Vice President/Government Relations, coordinating the organizing effort with the needs of dozens of government entities on the local, state, federal and international level.
Following the Games, Simon joined the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce as Senior Vice President. Noting that Southern California sites were being consistently overlooked as a site for other major events, he developed a concept for a volunteer sports and business committee that would act as a single point of contact for bringing special events to the area. After winning the bid to bring the 1991 U.S. Olympic Festival to Los Angeles, the fledgling group helped to bring together three Southern California venues that were bidding against each other, as well as against other cities, to host the NFL's 1993 Super Bowl. By offering a single, unified proposal from the area, offering a choice of venues, the Sports Council helped to impress the NFL and the Rose Bowl was ultimately selected to host the 1993 game. The group prospered under the leadership of Simon as President and the late John C. Argue, the man principally responsible for bringing the 1984 Olympic Games to Los Angeles, as Founding Chairman.
His efforts did not go unnoticed, as the United States Olympic Committee appointed Simon as chair of its International Relations Committee. He served with distinction in that voluntary role from 1988 through 1999, when he resigned to head the Los Angeles effort to bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA, Simon served on the staff of then-U.S. Representative Yvonne Braithwaite Burke from 1977-1978. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Cheryl and daughter Lisa.
Directors:
Sports Council directors are elected for a period of two years and are selected from the business and sports community in Southern California. Sports Council directors also serve on the Sports Council Foundation.
- John M. Argue, Senior Managing Director, Verity Point
- Dan Bane, Chairman & CEO, Trader Joe's Company
- Gary R. Birkenbeuel, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
- Robert T. Bouttier, President & COO, Automobile Club of Southern California
- Rhonda Brauer, Managing Director, Burson-Marsteller
- Karen Brodkin, Senior Vice President, Fox Cable Networks
- Brian P. Burke, Executive VP & General Manager, Anaheim Ducks
- Jeanie Buss, Executive Vice President, Los Angeles Lakers
- Fred Claire, Board of Directors, Rose Bowl Operating Company
- Richard Corgel, Executive Director, Ernst & Young LLP
- Brad Dinsmore, West Division Executive, Bank of America
- James L. Easton, Chairman & CEO, Jas D. Easton, Inc.
- Tim Fahringer, CEO, Saint Laurent Capital, Inc.
- Margaret U. Farnum, Chief Admin. Officer, L.A. Memorial Coliseum Commission
- Dennis A. Farrell, Commissioner, Big West Conference
- Alan J. Fohrer, Chairman, Southern California Edison
- Michael L. Garrett, Director of Athletics, USC
- Katherine Goodman, Owner, Los Angeles Sparks
- Daniel G. Guerrero, Director of Athletics, UCLA
- George Haines, Vice President & General Manager, Los Angeles Turf Club, Inc.
- Jeffrey A. Hirsch, LA Metro Division President, Time Warner Cable
- Daniel J. Jansen, Vice President & Director, The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
- Murray Joslin, Managing Director, Bowne of Los Angeles
- Don Jue, Vice President, IBM Corporation
- William R. Kramer, Managing Director of Sales, United Airlines
- Dennis Kuhl, President, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
- Timothy J. Leiweke, President & CEO, AEG
- Michael B. Lenard, Managing Director, Paladin Realty Partners, LLC
- Scott I. London, Partner in Charge - Audit, KPMG LLP
- Frank Marshall, Producer, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Patrick McClenahan, Senior Vice President, KCBS-TV & KCAL-TV
- Jamie McCourt, Vice-Chairman, Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
- Jerry G. McGee, President & COO, Ambassadors, LLC
- James F. McNulty, Chairman & CEO, Parsons Corporation
- Edward McSpedon, Executive Vice President, The HNTB Companies
- Charles D. Miller, Retired Chairman & CEO, Avery Dennison Corp.
- Don Orris, Executive Vice President - Western Region, Ticketmaster
- Joan A. Payden, President & CEO, Payden & Rygel
- Greg Penske, President, Penske Motor Group
- Richard B. Perelman, President, Perelman, Pioneer & Co.
- Dan Piotrowski, General Manager, Omni Los Angeles Hotel
- Thomas Pulchinski, Tournament Director, Northern Trust Open
- Andy Roeser, Executive Vice President, Los Angeles Clippers
- David B. Rogers, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
- Rick Rosas, Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Tim J. Ryan, President & CEO, Honda Center
- Frank M. Sanchez, Owner/Operator, McDonald's Restaurants
- Barry A. Sanders, Chairman, Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games
- Bill Shumard, President & CEO, Southern California Special Olympics
- Steve Simpson, Senior VP & General Manager, FSN West & FSN Prime Ticket
- William H. Tate, Senior VP, Transamerica Insurance & Investment Group
- David T. Thompson, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- William E. Thomson, Jr., AAF Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
- Gary L. Toebben, President & CEO, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
- Robert G. van Schoonenberg, Executive Vice President, Avery Dennison Corp.
- David J. Walsh, Vice President - Advertising, Los Angeles Times
- John G. Watson, Athletic Director, Pepperdine University
- Gillian Zucker, President, Auto Club Speedway
Ex-officio members of the Board include:
- John M. Dorger, CEO, Pasadena Tournament of Roses
- Richard J. Foster, President, U.S. Aquatic Sports
- Tommy Hawkins, Hawkins Communications, Inc.
- Franklin R. Johnson, Immediate Past President, U.S. Tennis Association
- James M. Lally, President, USA Shooting
- Cliff Peters, President, USA Badminton
- Claire L. Rothman
- James H. Warsaw, Founder, Warsaw Sports Marketing Center
Staff:
- David Simon, President
- Noly Lallana, Controller
- Mark Meyers, Director of Communications
- Monica Maldonado, Director of Special Events
- Mona Green, Executive Assistant
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