Leonard F. DeLuca
Senior Vice President, Programming & Acquisitions, ESPN
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DeLuca was named ESPN senior vice president, programming and
acquisitions in October 2005, becoming the senior executive responsible
for managing the activities of sports programming on ABC, in addition
to continuing his duties for ESPN. DeLuca’s ESPN duties include
overseeing the company’s Major League Baseball, Little League World
Series, tennis, and horse racing relationships. DeLuca joined ESPN in
1996 as senior vice president, programming development after 16 years
at CBS Sports.
DeLuca had been named senior vice president,
programming strategy at ESPN in February 2001. In that position, he was
part of the negotiation team for the eight-year extension through 2013
of Major League Baseball’s lead cable package for ESPN, acquisition of
the Belmont Stakes for ABC and ESPN through 2010, the Breeders Cup
World Thoroughbred Championships through 2013, the World Figure Skating
Championship through 2008, two Tennis Grand Slam agreements, including
Wimbledon through 2007 and Australian Open through 2011.
In
October, 2004 DeLuca added the responsibility of overseeing the
commercial operations unit, 16 months after taking responsibility for
the newly-formed programming integration unit that formats, coordinates
and integrates all domestic and international networks. In 2001 he was
part of the team which extended ESPN’s relationship with the entire
NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament, NCAA Men’s and Women’s College
World Series, and 18 other NCAA championships through 2013.
DeLuca
has also served as a consultant to the ESPN college unit, ESPNU, and to
the ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE) unit, which created ESPN movies A
Season on the Brink, The Junction Boys, and “3” as well as the dramatic
series PLAYMAKERS and TILT. He was one of the original EOE members in
January 2000 when it focused on developing original, proprietary
content, including early programs ESPN’s 2 Minute Drill, ESPN The
Magazine’s The Life series, and two highly acclaimed specials, The
Season and Remembering Marshall: 30 Years Later. He was part of the
college team negotiation unit that extended the ESPN relationship with
the NFL, Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences in the late 90’s.
DeLuca
served as CBS Sports’ vice president, programming from November
1994-May 1996, responsible for managing acquisitions, scheduling and
strategic planning for college football and basketball -- including the
Bowl Alliance and CBS’ extension of its exclusive coverage of the
entire men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament in 1989 and 1994, auto racing,
figure skating and other specials. He joined CBS Sports in 1979 as
manager, editorial services, and held several director-level positions
until being promoted to vice president, program planning in 1989,
responsible for all collegiate and professional basketball and football
properties and CBS’ NCAA relationships.
DeLuca has been honored
by the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in Kingston, Rhode Island,
which named him the winner of the 2004 “Pathfinder Award,” and by the
All American Football Foundation which named him “Outstanding
Television Executive” in 2004. He was named College Sports Magazine’s
“Most Influential Person” in College Sports for the 1994-95 academic
year. He was also named to his hometown Cranston, Rhode Island Hall of
Fame in 1990.
Prior to joining CBS Sports, DeLuca, a member of
the Massachusetts Bar, was an associate with a Boston litigation law
firm, White, Inker, Aronson, P.C. (1977-79). He was also a news and
sportswriter for WEEI-CBS Newsradio in Boston (1974-76) and co-creator
of the Boston College Sports radio network where he was basketball
play-by-play commentator (1972-79).
DeLuca was graduated from
Boston College magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts double major in
political science and economics in 1974, and from Boston College Law
School with a juris doctor in 1977.
David A. T. Donohue
Founder and President, IHRDC, and Arlington Storage Corporation
Dr.
David A. T. Donohue is the Founder and President of both IHRDC and
Arlington Storage Corporation. Dr. Donohue is a technical specialist,
businessman, attorney and lecturer who is highly regarded for the
teaching of management programs devoted to the “business of oil and
gas.” He has successfully designed and taught these “business game”
programs to more than 10,000 members of the international oil and gas
industry on both in-house and public bases. He was the developer of an
innovative video-based learning system for the upstream petroleum
industry, which has now been converted to IPIMS, a widely licensed
e-Learning system.
Dr. Donohue is also the developer and owner
of independent underground gas storage facilities in New York State. In
his early career he held various positions in engineering and research
for Exxon and, for four years, served on the faculty of Pennsylvania
State University.
Dr. Donohue holds the Ph.D. in Petroleum
& Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a
J.D. degree from Boston College Law School. He is active in public
affairs in his hometown, a Distinguished Member of the SPE and Alumni
Fellow of Pennsylvania State University. Member, Board of Bar
Overseers, Boston College Law School.