Neal Pilson is founder and president of Pilson Communications, Inc., a consulting company specializing in sports television, media and marketing. PIC clients have included the Arena Football League, NASCAR, the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl, the World Series of Poker as well as the IOC. Neal served two terms as president of CBS Sports and is known for negotiating huge television broadcast contracts for all of CBS's major sports franchises including MLB, NASCAR, NCAA, NFL and PGA. Prior to joining CBS in 1976 as Director of Business Affairs, he was in private law practice in New York and was an executive at Metromedia, Inc. and the William Morris Agency, Inc. In 1994 the IOC awarded Pilson with the Olympic Order, the highest honor given by the IOC. Mr. Pilson attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY where he received his B.A. in history in 1960 and then earned his LL.B from Yale Law School in 1963. Neal is a general partner of Sports Business Ventures, LLC and has been the Senior advisor for the Sports Finance Group at UBS AG since 2004. He also is an advisor for Grand Prix Entertainment, Inc., Route 2 Digital, LLC., and a board member of Collegiate Images, LLC. [More at Wikipedia]

April 18th, 1940 in New York City (Age 84)