Robert A. Boland, J.D.
Athletics Integrity Officer, Penn State University

Bob Boland joined Penn State University as Athletics Integrity Officer in July 2017. In this role, he works to ensure the Athletics Department is meeting all University standards related to integrity, ethics, staff and student conduct and welfare, as well as NCAA and Big Ten standards.

The position, the first of its kind, was created in August 2012 in an agreement with the NCAA, Big Ten and Penn State. It was charged with oversight and reporting of internal and external investigations into athletics. Boland chairs the University's Athletics Integrity Council, a group that brings together senior administrators and faculty to review matters related to athletics and reports to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and the Board of Trustees.

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W. Charles Bennett, M.B.A., CPA, CFE
Partner Albuquerque Office, Bennett Hutt & Company, LLC

W. Charles Bennett is an experienced professional auditor with skills in fraud auditing, compliance auditing, and analysis of financial data. He has served as a financial consultant to numerous sports unions regarding the analysis of revenues and expenses of Teams and Leagues and regarding design of audit programs and strategies for the monitoring of revenue sharing agreements between the Leagues and their players.

Audits of sports teams has included reviews of commissions paid on the sale of broadcasting air time, stadium and arena signage, concessions and other inventories of the respective franchise. Fraud auditing clients have included financial institutions, professional athletes, non-profit organizations and attorneys. His experience includes over 25 years as a fraud investigator including 17 years of criminal investigations experience with the federal government, including determining compliance with laws and regulations (FBI, FEMA, and IRS).

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Michael Rowe, M.B.A.
President and CEO, Positive Impact S+E

Spanning a career over four decades, Michael Rowe is no stranger to building winning organizations and designing successful business strategies in the sports and entertainment world. He's operated America's biggest sports and entertainment complex; built and executed a televised NCAA Basketball Classic atop an active aircraft carrier; designed and planned America's most successful regional sports network; advises clients on how to buy, sell or relocate their professional sports teams; and consults clients every day on how to successfully compete in the sports and entertainment marketplace. Rowe has consistently delivered winning strategies to get the job done!

Previous positions include Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, Co-Owner, President, COO and Alternate Governor to the NBA Board of Governors and Co-Founder of YES Television Network. Rowe remains part-owner/investor in Yankee Global Enterprises, the holding company of the Yankees and YES Network.

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Larry Bailey, M.B.A., CPA
President and CEO, LDB Consulting, Inc.

Accountant Larry Bailey graduated with his B.S. degree in accounting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) in 1972. He went on to enroll at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Graduate School of Business. In 1976, he graduated with his M.B.A. degree in finance. Bailey is a certified public accountant, and holds memberships with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the District of Columbia Certified Public Accountants.

From 1972 to 1976, Bailey worked as an Internal Revenue Service agent, and was also a member of the Richmond (Virginia) District Speakers Bureau. When Bailey graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP offered him a position at the firm. As an associate, Bailey's work focused on taxes and consulting services. He offered financial advice to foreign and domestic institutions, insurance and investment agencies, energy corporations, real estate brokers, and individuals.

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Terri Carmichael Jackson, J.D.
Director of Operations, Women's National Basketball Players Association

Terri Carmichael Jackson was named Director of Operations for the Women's National Basketball Players Association in May 2016. In this role, Jackson is responsible for WNBPA board relations, executive leadership and management, financial governance, and stakeholder outreach. These responsibilities require her to be a good negotiator, creative marketing consultant, listener & problem-solver and all-around fixer.

Jackson comes to the WNBPA after four years with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in Indianapolis, Indiana. In her last position at the NCAA she reported to the Chief Legal Officer/Executive Vice President and served as the Director of Law, Policy and Governance. In this role, she operated as the EVP's chief of staff. She was the primary contact and staff support to university chancellors, presidents and athletics administrators who comprised the Association's highest governing body, the NCAA Board of Governors.

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Kenneth B. Holdsman, J.D.
President and CEO, Philadelphia Youth Basketball, Inc.

Kenny Holdsman has devoted the past two decades of his career to the empowerment of urban young people through education, leadership and character development, coaching and mentorship, family involvement, and high quality opportunities both in schools and in communities. He has held senior positions in the School District of Philadelphia; the Academy for Educational Development, a global non-profit; and two local sports-based youth development organization. In addition to his passion for young people and social justice, Kenny has a proven track record in non-profit leadership including strategic planning, building organizational culture, fund development, board development and engagement, community partnerships, program design and implementation, measurement and evaluation, budget and finance, and operations.

Currently, Kenny is the President, CEO, and a founding board member of Philadelphia Youth Basketball, Inc., designed to create opportunities for young people, especially those from under-resourced families and communities, to reach their full potential as students, athletes, and positive leaders.

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Harvey Araton
Sports Columnist, The New York Times

Harvey Araton has been a longtime sports columnist and feature writer, most recently for The New York Times, to which he continues to write. Araton has covered the New York sports scene, providing commentary on all sports and issues. After reporting for the Staten Island Advance, New York Post and Daily News, he joined the Times in 1991 and was a Sports of the Times columnist from 1994-2009. He has covered 10 Olympics, Wimbledon, the French Open and the Davis Cup in Spain and Zimbabwe. He has also covered many N.B.A. finals, World Series, Super Bowls and men's and women's Final Fours in college basketball.

Araton is the author or co-author of seven books, including "Driving Mr. Yogi," a New York Times best-seller published in 2012 and "When The Garden Was Eden," published in 2011 and the basis for a 2014 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, co-produced by Araton. His first novel, "Cold Type," was published in 2014.

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Elizabeth Newman, M.A.
Editor-At-Large, The Athletic and Former Editor, Sports Illustrated

Elizabeth Newman is a veteran sports journalist and former Sports Illustrated editor who will teach sports reporting and ethics. In her 18-year career at SI she worked in a variety of roles, including intern, reporter, writer and associate editor, and reported on a multitude of events, including the BCS Championship, the NCAA tournament, the NBA Finals, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

As a reporter and writer, she covered the NBA, NASCAR and college football, and was the author of the Queen's Court column on SI.com. As an editor, she edited the tennis beat, Letters to the Editor, Scorecard, SI Commemorative issues and SI's iPad application.

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Sean Gregory, M.S.
Senior Writer, TIME magazine

Since joining TIME in 2002, Gregory has written profiles of a wide range of athletes, including Usain Bolt, LeBron James, Tim Tebow, Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova. Gregory wrote TIME's 2010 cover story on the concussion crisis in football and has written enterprise features on the Penn State football child-sex scandal, baseball in the Dominican Republic, the recruiting of preteen athletes by major college sports programs and the competitiveness of amputee golfers. Gregory has covered four Olympic Games for TIME, as well as multiple Super Bowls, World Series and NBA Finals. In 2011, Gregory began writing Keeping Score, a weekly sports column on TIME.com. Outside sports, Gregory has written in-depth pieces on Newark Mayor Cory Booker and the Supreme Court case against the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.

Prior to joining TIME, Gregory worked at the Associated Press; WFAN, New York City's top all-sports radio station; and Sports Illustrated. He also spent three years working for a major financial-services company in New York.

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Moderators

Paula Becker Alexander, Ph.D., J.D.
Associate Management Professor, Department of Management, Seton Hall University

Dr. Becker Alexander teaches in the M.B.A. program, as well as the undergraduate business program, where she serves as Curriculum Coordinator, Corporate Social Responsibility. Dr. Becker Alexander is an expert in affirmative action. She worked with counsel in New Jersey's major reverse discrimination case, publishing "Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination: Does Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway Township Define the Outer Limits of Lawful Race-Conscious Voluntary Affirmative Action?" in The Seton Hall Journal of Constitutional Law.

Dr. Becker Alexander serves as the Secretary of the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, the only employment law Inn of Court in the United States. Most recently, she published "The Ethical Challenges for Enterprise and Risks to Consumers of Large Market Share through Low Cost Supplier Strategy" in the International Journal of Business Ethics, and she is counseling M.B.A. service projects oriented to micro-lending. Dr. Becker Alexander's current research, which is predominantly discipline based, relates to executive compensation, firm financial performance and socially responsible management practices.

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Robert A. Boland, J.D.
Athletics Integrity Officer, Penn State University

Bob Boland joined Penn State University as Athletics Integrity Officer in July 2017. In this role, he works to ensure the Athletics Department is meeting all University standards related to integrity, ethics, staff and student conduct and welfare, as well as NCAA and Big Ten standards.

The position, the first of its kind, was created in August 2012 in an agreement with the NCAA, Big Ten and Penn State. It was charged with oversight and reporting of internal and external investigations into athletics. Boland chairs the University's Athletics Integrity Council, a group that brings together senior administrators and faculty to review matters related to athletics and reports to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and the Board of Trustees.

For more about Bob Boland click here.

Len DeLuca, J.D.
Len DeLuca & Associates, Senior Consultant, IMG

Len DeLuca's current stop in his 38-year sports media career is as Senior Consultant at IMG, which he joined in 2015 as Senior VP, Original Content, working for IMG co-president's Mark Sharpiro's team on a wide spectrum of projects including IMG Film's Oscar-shortlisted documentary "Gleason;" "West Side Tennis' Club 15-year deal for Forest Hills Stadium with AEG-owned Tiebreaker Productions; Frontier Communications' carrier deals with NESN, MSG, and Univision; PBR OTT and international options; tennis matters including IMG Media’s extension with ATP, Serena Williams "Unmatched" branding; the upcoming HBO documentary series on Serena's eventful last year, and bringing IMG events to Atlantic City Casino Redevelopment Commission. DeLuca was a consultant to IMG College in 2011 where he advised on the creation of "Campus Insiders" that debuted a year later.

DeLuca founded Len DeLuca & Associates, LLC in 2010, a media strategy firm that represented The Basketball Tournament winner-take-all $2 Million open summer tournament on ESPN; New York Racing Association for the Belmont Stakes and creation of the Summer at Saratoga series with NBC.

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