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Stan Kasten

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Stan Kasten

As President & CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a long-time baseball and sports executive, Stan brings decades of sports executive leadership to Canopy Team’s board. He has been President and CEO of the Dodgers since 2012, and was formerly President of the Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, and Atlanta Thrashers. In 1999, he was the first to hold the President title for three different teams in three different major sports simultaneously for the Braves, Hawks, and Thrashers. He was the youngest general manager in NBA history at 27 years old when in 1979 he became the Hawks GM. He was also the chairman of the then newly constructed Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena). Stan is also on the advisory board of the Professional Women’s Hockey Leage and had a leading role in the transformation of the Billie Jean King Cup women’s tennis team competition. He was the Los Angeles Sports Council’s 2013 Executive of the Year, is former Director of the Sports Lawyer Association and serves on the LA84 Foundation Board of Directors, the Rose Bowl Institute Advisory Board as well as the Board of the US Japan Foundation. A native of Lakewood, N.J., Kasten is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University Law.