MICHAEL S. GLIEDMAN

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
National Basketball Association
In his position as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the NBA, Michael Gliedman oversees the league’s drive to become one of the preeminent technology-driven sports organizations in the world. As head of Information Technology, Gliedman directs a team that focuses on the most cost-effective ways of delivering realistically achievable technical solutions to meet the needs of his clients across the NBA, WNBA and NBA Development League offices.

Gliedman supervises all aspects of the NBA’s technical infrastructure and provides voice and data service to clients across 18 sites and seven countries. In addition, he is responsible for the development and maintenance of an application portfolio that consists of approximately 250 systems supporting all league operations. He directs all technology initiatives relating to the collection, cataloging, storage, archiving and retrieval of NBA assets. Most recently, he led the technical transition of the NBA family of Web sites to NBA Digital in Atlanta.

Gliedman’s group oversees the nightly collection and distribution of statistical data from 29 arenas across the league. This information is made available in real time to NBA.com, television, and a variety of third-party providers. His teams provide the technical infrastructure and on-the-ground support for approximately 61 major events each year, including NBA All-Star, the playoffs, The Finals, Europe Live and the China Games. During his tenure, he has helped drive successful technical marketing partnerships with IBM, Dell, Oracle, AT&T, Research In Motion, Verizon, Lenovo, HP, Akamai and Cisco.

Gliedman has been with the NBA since July 1999, when he was hired as Vice President of Information Technology. Prior to joining the NBA, he was the Senior Vice President of Application Development for infoworks, a Viacom technology service supporting MTV Networks, Showtime Networks, and Viacom’s corporate division. Prior to working for Viacom, he was a Principal with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and technology consulting firm, where he specialized in developing business and technology solutions for clients in the media and entertainment industry.

Gliedman is a native of New York. He attended Brandeis University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He also holds an M.B.A. in marketing from Columbia Business School. He currently resides in Scarsdale, N.Y., with his wife Jennifer and their sons, Daniel and Jacob.