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IMG signs execs

IMG has appointed two veteran sports marketing executives as it expands its sales and marketing staff.

Greg Simon joins from Octagon where he was senior vice president of business development, responsible for the company’s consulting and promotional divisions. He was previously vice president, division director of corporate partnerships and sales for Quokka Sports, Inc., and had been a senior vice president with Millsport before that.
Tom Worcester is a long time sales and business development executive whose most recent experience includes serving as executive vice president, sales and marketing of Sportvision, where he had overall sales and marketing responsibilities for a number of product lines related to the NFL, NASCAR, PGA
Tour, MLB and TV networks and properties.
Previous positions include senior vice president and head of sales for the Gravity Games; consulting on Olympic sales tie-ins for MSNBC, and vice president of sales and corporate partnerships for Quokka
Sports. From 1993-1999, he was vice president sponsorship sales and marketing for Major League Baseball Properties.
Simon and Worcester will work out of IMG’s New York City sales and business development office.