Venues Conference April 29 May 1 St Louis MO Meet Our Speakers Mario Coutinho Vice President of Stadium Operations and Security Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers Centre Toronto ON ID: 623151
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Sports and Entertainment Venues Conference
April 29 – May 1, St. Louis, MOMeet Our SpeakersSlide2
Mario Coutinho
Vice
President of
Stadium Operations
and
Security
Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers
Centre
Toronto, ON
The images provided by HD video at the Toronto landmark stadium have proven to be as clear as they were in trial demos, says Mario
Coutinho
, Vice-President of Stadium Operations and Security with the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club and Rogers Centre. Toronto’s
Rogers Centre
is putting a new HD surveillance system to work in an effort to provide better coverage of the sports and entertainment venue’s 50,000 seats using cameras that provide high definition images and lower installation and management costs — and it’s already paying dividends.
Rogers Centre is home to the Toronto Blue Jays and Argonauts, and also hosts events such as UFC 131, held this past April. This weekend it will welcome the Oscars of Bollywood — the International Indian Film awards — the first time it has been held in North America.
To better protect fans, artists and athletes at the Rogers Centre, the organization has invested in an
Avigilon
HD surveillance system, increasing coverage of the seating bowl area as well as outside surveillance.Slide3
Doug Hall
Doug Hall is the General Manager for BBVA Compass Stadium,
which opened in May 2012. He oversees all day-to-day matters of the
stadium
including operations, guest services, programming, food and beverage and turf management.
Hall previously served
as the Interim Executive Director and Vice President of Operations for the 2011 Houston Final Four Local Organizing Committee
.
As part of the 11-person staff, the Local Organizing Committee is charged with executing all local planning and logistical elements for the NCAA Men’s Basketball staff for the Houston Final Four.Prior to his work on the Final Four, Hall spent the previous seven years as the Vice President and General Manager of the Toyota Center in Houston, TX, as a member of the Rockets organization. Hired only 10-months prior to the opening of the facility in October of 2003, Hall successfully navigated the waters of opening a premier NBA facility in the country’s
fourth
largest city.
His
responsibilities included
overseeing 50 full-time employees, 300 part-time employees and four major subcontractors. Hall also previously spent 10 years working for SMG, a private facility management company.
General Manager
BBVA Compass Stadium
Houston, TXSlide4
Rick Schlesinger
Executive Vice President
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee, WI
In 2002, Rick Schlesinger joined the
Milwaukee
Brewers Baseball Club as Executive
Vice
President – Business Operations. Throughout his time with the Brewers, he was charged with overseeing the
club's business
affairs, including
sponsorships,
marketing
, ticket sales, guest services, broadcasting and communications, among other responsibilities.Schlesinger previously served as the Vice
President, Business and Legal ffairs/Assistant General Manager for the Anaheim Angels from 1998-2002, after coming to Anaheim Sports, Inc. (ASI)
from Walt
Disney Pictures and Television. He handled all contract and
legal matters
for ASI, the Angels, and the NHL's Mighty Ducks, and worked
on all
contractual and arbitration issues for the baseball club
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Jim Wynkoop
Responsible for day to day operations for the 10,000 seat arena including booking and scheduling, coordinating on campus stake holders, facilitating user agreements, and supervising staff responsible for managing the facility and its events.
Public Assembly Facility Manager with experience in operating older arena facilities as well as opening new ones. Additional experience with community recreational facilities and programming,
Specialties:Facility
operations, event management,
lgoistics
and planning, FF&E procurement, resource allocation, scheduling and supervising staff, parking operations, and labor relations.
General Manager
Chaifetz
Arena
St
. Louis University at Global
Spectrum
St. Louis, MOSlide6
Dr. Lou Marciani
Lou
Marciani is the Director of the Center for Spectator Sports Security Management at The University of Southern Mississippi. The Center was founded with initial funding from the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security as the country’s first academic research center dedicated to spectator sports security research, professional development and outreach. His work at the Center focuses on the development of sport risk management and simulation modeling for stadium evacuations. The Center has a national outreach, actively working with professional sport leagues, NCAA, National Collegiate Directors of Athletics, private sector and government agencies in enhancing sport safety and security.
Director
Center for Spectator Sports Security Management
University of Southern Mississippi
Oxford, MSSlide7
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