Dean Howes was the first commissioner of Major League Rugby which began its inaugural season in 2018.
13 Facts About Dean Howes
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Dean Howes was, with SCP Worldwide, a managing partner of National Hockey League franchise St Louis Blues.
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Dean Howes began with pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb in a 19-year business career spanning New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, rising to the position of Senior Director of Business Development.
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Dean Howes left BMS in 1997 to become CEO and founding executive of Professional Teams Physicians.
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Dean Howes grew to represent over a thousand sports medicine practitioners around the country, across professional teams in the NBA, MLB, NFL, MLS and NHL.
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Dean Howes became a partner in SCP Worldwide, a New York City-based sports, entertainment and media company founded in 2002.
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Dean Howes was appointed chief executive of the Real Salt Lake soccer franchise, a Major League Soccer team owned by SCP playing in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Dean Howes later served as the vice-chairman and oversaw the construction of Rio Tinto Stadium, the 20,000-seat home of Real Salt Lake in Sandy, Utah.
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Dean Howes played a role in making Real Salt Lake the first US professional sports team to sell the naming rights to the front of their jerseys.
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In 2014, Dean Howes partnered with Findlay Entertainment in their bid to bring another major sports franchise to the Las Vegas market.
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Dean Howes joined the executive management team of Rugby Utah in 2016, before being appointed as the commissioner of Major League Rugby ahead of the competition's inaugural 2018 season.
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Dean Howes has served on the board of directors for the Salt Lake chapter of community organisation United Way.
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Dean Howes was a mission president and ecclesiastical leader of about 200 of the LDS Church missionaries in central Arizona between 2010 and 2013.