National Executive Board Member

JERRY SOLOMON
CEO
StarGames

Jerry Solomon has been one of America's top sports marketing executives for more than 30 years.

Following his graduation from Columbia University in 1978 with a Masters Degree in International Business, Solomon was recruited by the Colgate-Palmolive Company to serve as its liaison to the men's and women's professional tennis tours. In 1980, he moved to Washington D.C. and joined ProServ, the second largest sports marketing and management company in the world, where he managed some of the top athletes in the world including Ivan Lendl, Michael Chang, Janet Evans, Shannon Miller, Karch Kiraly and Nancy Kerrigan. Mr. Solomon was named Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of ProServ in 1987 and was elected President in 1990. He left ProServ in 1994 and moved to Boston to launch StarGames, a sports and entertainment marketing, management and production agency.

As Founder and CEO at StarGames, Solomon has been responsible for a lengthy list of live and televised sports and entertainment productions including several skating shows starring Kerrigan whom he married in 1995 (Halloween on Ice; Footloose on Ice; Once Enchanted Evening) as well as such long form entertainment as The Easter Egg Adventure and Ice Angel.  Mr. Solomon is responsible for bringing back tennis to Madison Square Garden with the now annual BNP Paribas Showdown. This one night tennis event is now a headline attraction and has featured the top names in both men and women’s tennis. In late 2012, Solomon introduced World Tennis Day which developed out of the success of the Showdown and Tennis Night in America. Since its announcement, World Tennis Day has garnered tremendous support around the world with 95 nations participating in 2014.

Mr. Solomon was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2012; has been named one of the "Top 100 Most Powerful People in Sports" by The Sporting News and one of the "Top 25 Most Influential People in Figure Skating" by Figure Skating International magazine. He is responsible for helping to found the Karch Kiraly Scholarship Fund, the KidSport Foundation and the Nancy Kerrigan Foundation. He has taught sports marketing at the University of New Hampshire and UCLA's Anderson School of Business; is the author of "An Insider's Guide to Managing Sports Events," which was published in 2001 by Human Kinetics and he served on the Athlete Outreach Committee for Boston's 2024 Olympic bid.