Jimmy Pitaro serves as Chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since February 2023. As the Chairman of ESPN, he holds complete operational oversight and financial responsibility for a vast portfolio of sports content, products, and experiences across Disney's global platforms. Pitaro previously held the role of Chairman of ESPN and Sports Content starting in October 2020. He first joined Disney as ESPN President and Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks in 2018, following eight years as a key Disney executive.

Pitaro is celebrated for his visionary leadership and clear strategic priorities: Direct to Consumer, Innovation, Storytelling and Programming, Audience Expansion, and a steadfast commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within ESPN's ranks. Under his guidance, ESPN has achieved outstanding results during challenging times. Pitaro's impressive journey includes key roles at Disney, Yahoo, and Launch.com, where he demonstrated dynamic leadership in media and sports. He has also received numerous accolades and actively serves on industry boards, further cementing his enduring impact in the worlds of sports and media.

Todd L. Boehly is the Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Eldridge, which employs more than 3,000 people and has made investments in over 70 operating businesses. Mr. Boehly is Chairman of Security Benefit, Chairman and owner of Chelsea Football Club, and an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Sparks, Cloud9, and DraftKings. He is on the boards of the Los Angeles Lakers, Flexjet, PayActiv, CAIS, Chelsea Football Club, Cain International, Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW), and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT). Prior to founding Eldridge, Mr. Boehly was President of Guggenheim Partners and founded the credit business at Guggenheim.   

Ed Berry is a Football Agent at CAA Sports, a division of leading entertainment and sports agency    Creative Artists Agency (CAA).  CAA Sports represents more than 3,000 of the world's best athletes in sports such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer, in addition to icons, on-air broadcasters, coaches, and other pre-eminent personalities. Beyond on-field athlete representation, CAA provides unique opportunities for clients off-field, in areas including entertainment, licensing, endorsements, speaking, philanthropy, video games, and digital. 

Berry is based in Atlanta and represents many of the world’s top football players, including Aaron Rodgers, Saquon Barkley, Bryce Young, Will Levis, CeeDee Lamb, Randall Cobb, Jahan Dotson, and Trey Lance, among others. 

Ishwara Glassman Chrein is the former president of Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire. Prior to that, she led partnerships / bd for Yahoo Sports / Verizon Media and led strategy and operations for IMG’s consulting and sales teams. She began her career at McKinsey and Lehman Brothers after graduating with her BA and Master’s from Columbia Univ. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, two kids, and one enormous golden retriever.  

Television sports veteran Elle Duncan joined ESPN as an anchor for SportsCenter, the network’s signature news and information program in May of 2016. In March of 2021, she moved to the 6 p.m. show with Kevin Negandhi. In June of 2020, Duncan was named co-host of ESPN’s The Undefeated of a new weekly radio program The Intersection. The two-hour program featured in-depth discussions continuing the conversation around the impact of social justice on sports and society. Duncan started her broadcasting career in 2003 as an entertainment reporter for former Atlanta sports radio station 790 the Zone, then in 2005 began a seven-year career as an on-air personality with Atlanta hip-hop station V103 where she hosted a top-rated program. She expanded her radio work as co-host of pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows for the Atlanta Falcons Radio Network in 2010-2011.

In 2021, Fran Harris appeared on ABC’s Emmy award-winning business reality show, SHARK TANK, debuting ELECTRA®, a premium electrolyte drink. She’s the co-founder of The Athletic Club sports complexes, former ESPN announcer, and filmmaker whose film, A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, a documentary about women’s professional basketball, debuts in 2023. Fran was captain and leading scorer on UT's 34-0 NCAA Championship team in 1986, as well as a member of the 1997 the Houston Comets squad, the WNBA's first championship team. She’s currently leading efforts to bring a WNBA expansion team to Austin by 2026 (WNBAAustin.com). She’s a 2018 McCombs MSTC grad.

Monica McNutt is a basketball analyst, host, and reporter based in New York City. McNutt can be seen regularly on the ESPN programs Sportscenter, Around the Horn, and First Take. As the voice of ESPN’s 2023 WNBA campaigns McNutt can be heard in the commercials and on the broadcast as both game and studio analyst, a role she also holds covering Women's College Basketball. The past two years she’s been the first stop for players drafted for during ESPN/ABC’s NBA draft coverage as the draft reporter. She’s covered the NBA Finals with ESPN and ESPN Radio. McNutt is also a studio and radio analyst for the New York Knicks. Her work has been seen on Fox Sports 1, CBS Sports Network, Turner/NBA TV, and the NBC’s family of networks as she made her debut covering the Olympics during the Tokyo Olympics. She is proud of the multiple roles she can play in the media landscape and has no problem shedding traditional roles to thrive in the digital space. Above all, she is proud to be an example to the young women watching her and offer her perspective in the daily sports conversations.

Sunny Mehta is on the NFL’s International Marketing team leading on emerging and growth markets. He is responsible for the NFL Heritage Program, a marketing initiative that celebrates the League’s diversity that is now featured in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Nominated for two Emmy’s, he is responsible for all marketing strategies, content and initiatives that span outside the United States. Prior to joining the NFL, he worked in public affairs and crisis communications at firms in New York and DC. He holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Double-Degree MBA/MAM from the Yale School of Management and HEC Paris. He lives on the Upper East Side in New York with his wife and daughter.

Greg Sankey became the eighth Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference on June 1, 2015, and immediately embarked on a journey to build upon the SEC’s recognized success, strong foundation and rich traditions.Sankey first joined the SEC staff in 2002 as Associate Commissioner for Governance, Enforcement and Compliance.  He was elevated to Executive Associate Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer for the league office in 2012, becoming responsible for the day-to-day operation of the SEC Office. Prior to joining the SEC staff, Sankey was Commissioner of the Southland Conference for nearly seven years.  He joined the Southland Conference staff in 1992 where he served as both assistant and associate commissioner before he was named commissioner in 1996 at the age of 31.

Ethan Burris is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as a professor of management and the Chevron Centennial Fellow. He teaches and consults on topics relating to leadership, managing power and politics, leading groups and teams, and negotiations.

Lillian F. Mills is Dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a committed strategic leader, a top policy-relevant tax scholar, and an award-winning educator. Following her BS and MS at the University of Florida, she served Deloitte and PwC from 1981 to 1989. After her PhD at the University of Michigan, Mills served The University of Arizona from 1997 to 2005. She was the 2005 Surrey Fellow in the US Office of Tax Analysis and consulted to the IRS for two decades. She chaired the Accounting Department, ranked #1 by US News for more than 15 years, and served as an Editor for both The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. She received the prestigious 2023 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, Deloitte Wildman Medal, and American Taxation Association 2014 EY Sommerfeld Outstanding Educator Award from the American Accounting Association; McCombs’ Career Research Award; and McCombs’ Undergraduate Amplify Award for Inclusive

Classrooms. Lillian and Jim enjoy visiting their children and grandchildren in MI, NJ, OH and Mexico.

Kirk Goldsberry is the NYT best-selling author of Sprawlball, an NBA analyst at ESPN and a professor at the University of Texas. He has previously served as the Vice President of Strategic Research for the San Antonio Spurs, the Senior Analyst for Team USA Basketball, and as a staff writer at Grantland.

Rebecca Feferman is Founder of The FefCo, where she offers high-level producing and strategy in content, business development, and brand management across the intersection of sports, entertainment, and culture for clients like Spurs Sports & Entertainment, Katie Nolan, and Dave & Busters among others. Rebecca is a Lecturer for UT's McCombs School of Business, currently teaching Entrepreneurship Practicum: Passion Industries, as well as serves on the Advisory Council for the UT Center for Sports Communications & Media at the Moody College, where she spent two years as a Lecturer for the Business of Sports Media course. Running with Beto, the first feature film Rebecca produced, won the Audience Award at SXSW and premiered on HBO in 2019. Prior to starting her company in 2016, Rebecca spent eight years at SXSW, where she navigated multiple roles, creating and running sports-focused track SXsports, and serving as Head of Convergence Programming. Feferman’s tenure at SXSW began in 2008 as Head of Film Media Relations, where she also worked as a Programmer until 2014. Before moving to Austin, Rebecca was a publicist at ID Public Relations in Los Angeles, representing actors John Krasinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Paul Giamatti, among others. A proud graduate of the University of Michigan, Feferman originally hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico.