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Golden Knights’ First Team President Kerry Bubolz Assumes New Role In Bill Foley’s Sports Empire As Foley Hires Vikings Exec To Run VGK Business Ops

 

VGK President Kerry Bubolz — he’s also co-president of the Foley Entertainment Group.

 

Kerry Bubolz

 


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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Times are changing for Kerry Bubolz, Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley’s right-hand business man.

Bubolz, the Golden Knights president from Oct. 2016, unofficial lobby greeter before VGK home games and public spokesman for the VGK business way (“hockey is a contact sport”), is shifting gears at the Bill Foley sports empire.

Bubolz is now filling the job called, the “Chief Civic Affairs and Government Relations Officer.”

Gary Bettman (center) with  Kerry Bubolz

 

Bubolz

Bubolz’s transition opens the door for John Penhollow, who has left his NFL Minnesota Vikings chief revenue officer post to become president of business operations of Foley’s vast business landscape that ranges from the NHL Golden Knights to his Foley Entertainment Group that includes the Henderson Silver Knights, Vegas Knight Hawks and Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson.

Penhollow has a sports business resume that includes stops in Cleveland, New York and Miami.

Before running the Vikings’ finances me in Minnesota, Penhollow spent three years with the NFL Cleveland Browns as Vice President of Corporate Sales and Service.

He also worked for the New York Yankees, where he spent three years as the team’s Director of Corporate Sales and Sponsorships.

Penhollow’s first NFL experience was with the Miami Dolphins, where he spent four seasons as their Manager of Marketing Partnerships.


 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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