{"id":343900,"date":"2018-12-24T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=343900"},"modified":"2018-12-24T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T17:26:34","slug":"usa-swimming-announces-executive-team-appointments-and-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-announces-executive-team-appointments-and-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Swimming Announces Executive Team Appointments and Promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. \u2013 USA Swimming announced today the year-end promotion of several individuals across the organization in its continued effort to enhance internal and external membership and stakeholder services.<\/p>\n<p>Following current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) <strong>Jim Harvey<\/strong>\u2019s retirement announcement earlier this year, the organization is pleased to announce the appointment of <strong>Eric Skufca<\/strong> to the role of CFO as of December 17. Most recently with Kroenke Sports &amp; Entertainment in Denver, Skufca also spent time with industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory firm Deloitte.<\/p>\n<p>USA Swimming\u2019s in-house legal representative since 2014, and current Vice President of Business Affairs, <strong>Lucinda McRoberts<\/strong> will now step into the role of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Additionally, McRoberts will continue in her capacity as General Counsel and head of the organization\u2019s Business Affairs Unit, which includes the Legal, HR, IT, Risk Management, Safe Sport, Government Relations and Office Management teams.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in the Business Affairs Unit, <strong>Abigail Howard<\/strong> has been promoted to Associate Counsel and Director of Safe Sport. A former swim coach, Howard also worked as Deputy Prosecutor at the Marion County Prosecutor\u2019s Office and senior associate to the special victim\u2019s team sex crimes and child abuse unit.<\/p>\n<p>Following the departure of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) <strong>Matt Farrell<\/strong>, <strong>Isabelle McLemore<\/strong> has been promoted to Managing Director of Communications, and will oversee communications and content strategy across the organization. McLemore will also work with President &amp; CEO <strong>Tim Hinchey<\/strong> in leading the Commercial Business Unit on an interim basis as the organization continues its search for a new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Commercial Business Unit team member <strong>Jake Grosser<\/strong> has been promoted to Director of Business Intelligence as the organization continues to look at the best, and most effective ways, to deliver services to its membership and further develop Consumer Relationship Management (CRM) capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The promotions follow this fall\u2019s previously announced hiring of Managing Director of Sport Development <strong>Joel<\/strong> <strong>Shinofield<\/strong>, who will be responsible for overseeing the Sport Development Division within the Technical Business Unit and executing a strategic plan that enhances the development and education of athletes, coaches, clubs and Local Swimming Committees (LSC) across all levels of the sport in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Keep up with all the latest USA Swimming news by following @usaswimming on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About USA Swimming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States, USA Swimming is a 400,000- member service organization that promotes the culture of swimming by creating opportunities for swimmers and coaches of all backgrounds to participate and advance in the sport through clubs, events and education. Our membership is comprised of swimmers from the age group level to the Olympic Team, as well as coaches and volunteers. USA Swimming is responsible for selecting and training teams for international competition including the Olympic Games, and strives to serve the sport through its core objectives: Build the base, Promote the sport, Achieve competitive success. For more information, visit w<a href=\"http:\/\/ww.usaswimming.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ww.usaswimming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with USA Swimming<\/i><i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i> <b><i>Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. \u2013 USA Swimming announced today the year-end promotion of several individuals across the organization in its continued effort to enhance internal and external membership and stakeholder services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":322617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[73070,47713,2690],"class_list":["post-343900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-eric-skufca","tag-lucinda-mcroberts","tag-usa-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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