FUTBOL TO FOOTBALL.

AuthorCampbell, Spencer
PositionSTATEWIDE: Charlotte - New Carolina Panthers

New Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper has made it clear that winning is important. But he also told reporters at his first press conference since buying the team that the NFL is a business, and he's seeking "revenue producers" in the form of sponsorships and capital improvements around Bank of America Stadium in downtown Charlotte.

So it isn't surprising that Tepper tapped Tom Click as the team's president in August. A Boston native who graduated from Cornell University, Glick has spent the last two decades rising through the ranks of sports administration, starting in 1996 as general manager of Michigan's Lansing Lugnuts minor-league baseball team. He later led sales and marketing for the Sacramento RiverCats, another ball club.

"He has an amazing head for revenue and how best to create partnerships that are mutually beneficial for all parties," says Darrin Gross, an executive with the Sacramento Kings NBA team who worked with Glick at the RiverCats. During Glick's tenures in Lansing and Sacramento, both teams built new stadiums.

After nearly three years in the NBA, at the league office and with the then-New Jersey Nets, Glick crossed the pond into English Premier League soccer, eventually becoming chief commercial and operating officer of Manchester City Football Club, which Forbes values at nearly $2.5 billion. In Manchester, Glick handled partnership sales, marketing and other business-related tasks. The club also added a state-of-the-art training facility.

Matching that feat will be Glick's first major task in Charlotte, says Todd McFall, a sports economist at Wake Forest University.

"To me, because of the location of [Bank of America Stadium], it's a very interesting dilemma...

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