Tyler K. Ellington
Team President, Professional Baseball Club
Kansas City, MO · (816) 555 0131 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/tylerkellington
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twenty two years in professional baseball business operations, seven as team president
INDUSTRIES
Minor league baseball, ballpark operations, regional sports sponsorship
SPECIALTIES
Ticket and premium seating revenue, sponsorship inventory, ballpark lease negotiation, affiliation agreements
SYSTEMS
Ticketmaster Archtics, KORE, Salesforce, Tableau
CREDENTIALS
Member of the league business advisory committee, board member of the regional sports commission
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, University of Missouri Kansas City
Executive Summary
Team president with twenty two years in professional baseball, from selling season tickets to running a Triple A franchise with sixty two full time staff. Owns ticket, premium seating, sponsorship and ballpark revenue against an eighteen million dollar operating plan, and reports to an ownership group of nine partners.
Signature Achievements
- Grew total club revenue from twelve million to eighteen million dollars across six seasons without a ticket price increase in year one.
- Raised season ticket renewal from seventy one percent to eighty eight percent by rebuilding the account service team around named representatives.
- Closed a ten year ballpark naming rights agreement worth eight hundred thousand dollars a year with category exclusivity in regional banking.
- Negotiated a fifteen year lease extension with the city that moved capital repair obligations to the stadium authority.
- Lifted premium seating occupancy from sixty four percent to ninety three percent after redesigning suite and club level products.
- Held the affiliation agreement with the major league parent club through two league restructuring cycles.
Professional Experience
Team President
River Bluff Baseball Club, Kansas City, MO 2018 to present
Triple A franchise, sixty two full time staff, eighteen million dollars in annual revenue, ownership group of nine partners
- Own the full operating plan covering ticketing, premium seating, corporate partnership, merchandise, food service and ballpark events.
- Lead a senior team of six vice presidents and present quarterly results and capital requests to the ownership group.
- Set sponsorship inventory and pricing each winter, protecting category exclusivity for the eleven largest partners.
- Represent the club on league committees covering ticketing standards, facility requirements and player development terms.
- Run the community foundation, which now returns four hundred thousand dollars a year to youth baseball across the metropolitan area.
Chief Revenue Officer
Great Plains Sports Group, Omaha, NE 2012 to 2018
Ownership company holding two minor league franchises and a summer collegiate league club
- Directed ticket and sponsorship revenue across three properties, a combined twenty one million dollars a year.
- Built a shared corporate partnership team so one seller could offer inventory across all three clubs.
- Introduced return on investment reporting for partners, which lifted renewal rates from sixty six to eighty one percent.
Vice President, Ticket Sales
Tulsa Riverside Baseball Club, Tulsa, OK 2005 to 2012
Double A club with a twenty two person sales and service department
- Managed season, group and single game ticket revenue of nine million dollars a year.
- Rebuilt the group sales calendar around theme nights that added one hundred and forty thousand tickets over four seasons.
Licensure and Certification
Member, league business advisory committee
Board member, Greater Kansas City Sports Commission
Education
Master of Business Administration, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2009
Bachelor of Science in business administration, Kansas State University, 2003
Core Skills
Franchise profit and loss ownership · Ticket and premium seating strategy · Sponsorship inventory pricing · Naming rights negotiation · Stadium lease negotiation · League governance · Ownership reporting · Executive team leadership · Community foundation oversight · Revenue forecasting