BARRY BAUM

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNICATIONS, BROOKLYN NETS

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS, BARCLAYS CENTER

In his seventh full season with Brooklyn Nets, Barry Baum was promoted to Senior Vice President of Business & Entertainment Communications in December, 2010.

Baum serves as the spokesperson for the team's business side and is responsible for all aspects of corporate, entertainment, and community communications for the team. Baum, 42, has secured significant business and entertainment coverage for the Nets in publications such as USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and on CNN, Bloomberg News, and CNBC.

Baum also leads the public relations effort for Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the home of the Nets beginning for the 2012-13 NBA season.

Prior to joining the Nets, Baum was a publicist for more than three years with Dan Klores Communications, a public relations firm in New York.

Baum was a sportswriter from 1994-2001 at the New York Post, during which time he broke a host of major stories covering professional, college, and high school teams. Baum was featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story in 1996 regarding his reporting, and has been an expert commentator on several national and local television and radio shows.

Raised in Brooklyn, Baum was a ballboy for the New York Knicks from 1984-87, and hosted a talk show about basketball on Manhattan Cable from 1985-87. He received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Emily, and their two sons, Noah and Hayden.