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GAIL D. HUNTER
Senior Vice President, Events and Attractions
National Basketball Association Gail D. Hunter is Senior Vice President of Events and Attractions for National Basketball Association. She is responsible for managing the NBA and WNBA’s domestic and international grassroots marketing programs. Events across the United States include NBA All-Star, NBA All-Star Jam Session, NBA Jam Van, NBA Summer League, and NBA Nation. Hunter oversees the production, operations, sponsorship management, execution, public relations, marketing, and advertising for these events. During 2010-11 season, the international grassroots events portfolio grew to more than 200 events in 94 cities in 34 countries, including NBA Madness, community outreach programs, touring basketball festivals, camps and coaching clinics, and basketball tournaments. Hunter joined the NBA in 1999 as Senior Director of Events and Attractions. She was promoted in January of 2002 to Vice President. Before joining the NBA, Hunter was employed as Director of Corporate Marketing for the Seattle Mariners, where she was in charge of corporate sponsorship sales, corporate development, marketing, and ballpark planning for Safeco Field. Hunter served as Director of Promotional Events for Major League Baseball from 1991 to through 1998, where she developed and managed baseball’s premier All-Star event, All-Star FanFest. Hunter earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 in theatre arts from the Fredonia campus of the State University of New York, where she was an accomplished student athlete, earning the Alice Michaels award given to the most outstanding female senior athlete. Following college, Hunter went on to the law school at the University of North Carolina, from which she earned her juris doctor degree in 1986. She is a member of the Washington State Bar and practiced with the firm of Schweppe, Krug and Tausend, in Seattle, Wash. She is an active member of WISE and serves as a mentor in the Wise Within Program. Hunter currently resides in Rutherford, N.J. with her family. 1/2012
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