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Forty Under 40

Forty Under 40: Stephanie Marciano

Stephanie Marciano makes the most of her firsts. She was the first one in her family to graduate from college (undergrad at Yale and master’s in sports management at Columbia), and her first trip out of the United States came after college, when she played...

Forty Under 40: Chara-Lynn Aguiar

Chara-Lynn Aguiar has a long history with The Walt Disney Company. She began her career with ABC as an intern in the research department the summer before she graduated from college. “When you’re 23 and you hear the word ‘strategy’ you’re like, that sounds cool....

Forty Under 40: Allison Eddy Sollazzo

It took a 10-hour Greyhound bus ride in 2007 for Allison Eddy Sollazzo to land her first opportunity in professional sports. Then a student at the University of Wisconsin, Eddy Sollazzo was enjoying spring break in St. Simons Island, Ga., when the...

Forty Under 40: Matt Duarte

When Matt Duarte left his finance job to join the sports business world full time, he described it as the most pivotal moment of his career. After graduating from Harvard Business School, the New York native’s first full-time job was in...

Forty Under 40: Andrew Nacario

Before the headline-grabbing deal, came an attention-seizing hype video. Andrew Nacario has helped innovate MLB free agency presentations at CAA Sports, with Trea Turner’s case serving as the quintessential example. Nacario, CAA’s co-head of baseball with 16 years of experience at the agency, wrote the...

Forty Under 40: Joseph Graziano III

Joseph Graziano III had planned to write a book about Engine 22, Ladder 13 — a New York Fire Department unit that went to rescue the first tower on 9/11. The story partly would be about the frailty of life, because all but one of Ladder 13’s...

Forty Under 40: Thad Hartmann

Thad Hartmann was the sports editor of the Daily Princetonian and a summer intern at Sports Illustrated for Kids, but he was even more interested in the deals that make sports happen.   After working at the Gazelle Group, a sports marketing firm that organized...