Confirmed with Link: Coyotes hire John Knebel as EVP Corporate Partnerships/Premium Seating

[The Feckless Puck]

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[Spirit of Lindgren]

If the intent is to stick around here (which I hope it is) this position is the toughest job in town.
And best of luck to you.
John Pierce came here as the olympic marketer and a year later now mans a chalk board at the ASU Carey business school.

 

[VanJack]

Is this thread kinda 'tongue in cheek'?....I thought the 'Yotes were abandoning Glendale and building a rink somewhere else in the Phoenix area?...good luck filling the current rink if that's the case.

 

[Sinurgy]

Is this thread kinda 'tongue in cheek'?....I thought the 'Yotes were abandoning Glendale and building a rink somewhere else in the Phoenix area?...good luck filling the current rink if that's the case.

Well IF and that's a big IF the Coyotes were to move, Knebel would go with them, he wouldn't be stuck with the impossible task of filling a Coyotes-less Gila River Arena.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

But one also presumes he would have this job *for* the new rink, yes?

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

But one also presumes he would have this job *for* the new rink, yes?

And you'd have priority at a new arena if you had seats at the old one.

 

[Spirit of Lindgren]

And you'd have priority at a new arena if you had seats at the old one.

Maybe. I was wondering about that. Wonder if this new premium seating guy wants to sell the first rows of a lower bowl section to some big company and some big company wants it.
It includes my seat.
Im the only one in my row who has bought a seat.
Would they let one puny fan stand in the way of selling the entire row to some company?

 

[Bonsai Tree]

Oh, I don't know if its the toughest job in town. The Dbacks have such a hard time filling the ballpark that they want to reduce the capacity (that is, if they don't just leave.) Their suites go empty too.

 

[ck26]

Handling suite accounts is a Vice Presidential-level post now?

Really pretentious title for a sales rep / hospitality guy.

 

[rt]

Handling suite accounts is a Vice Presidential-level post now?

Really pretentious title for a sales rep / hospitality guy.

He probably oversees a team responsible for these duties, rather than performing them himself. That may include folks from multiple departments like marketing and data and also sales/account management. If he's been tasked with rallying these pieces and growing this area of opportunity by completely overhauling current processes than usually guys who come in to do that sort of thing get fancier titles and don't stay around as long.

 

[Tanic]

[ Coyotes hire John Knebel as EVP Corporate Partnerships

Phoenix still has any corporations left?

 

[Matias Maccete]

Here is the experienced assistant gm we've been waiting for.