Dallas Stars Front Office
Under his watch, industry insiders have consistently identified the Stars as a team “on the rise” for both the business and hockey operations side of the organization. During the 2014-15 season, Gaglardi purchased the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League (AHL) and acquired the operating rights to H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas. The move reinforced his commitment to sustaining and growing the sport of hockey in the state of Texas and creating a seamless organizational process to develop and train NHL-caliber players, coaches and front office staff.
 
A passionate and knowledgeable leader who is deeply involved in all aspects of the family’s business, Gaglardi began his career in the hospitality industry at age 13 as a busboy and has worked in virtually every area of his business since that time. He spent considerable time in construction, hotel and restaurant operations, real estate development and finance. At age 23, he was promoted to president of the Sandman Hotel Group, and at 26 he became president of Northland Properties Corporation, the Gaglardi family’s umbrella company.
 
Under his direction, Northland has grown to be the largest family-owned hospitality company in Canada including a large portfolio of hotels with the Sandman Hotel Group and the Sutton Place Hotels & Resorts, several restaurant chains including Denny’s Restaurants of Canada, Moxie’s Grill & Bar, Chop Steakhouse & Bar and Shark Club Bar & Grill. In 2009, Gaglardi began expanding his brand of hospitality to the United Kingdom and more recently began operating in the United States, with the first Moxie’s Grill & Bar opening in Dallas in November 2016, and the first Sandman Hotel opening in Plano in February 2019. The family also owns and operates a large real estate portfolio and the world-renowned Revelstoke Mountain Resort. In addition to his role with the Stars, Gaglardi is a co-owner of the Kamloops Blazers Hockey Club of the Western Hockey League and serves as its governor.
 
An active member of the community, Gaglardi founded the Sandman Harvest Foundation, which has raised over $1 million for disadvantaged and medically challenged children living in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. He also serves as trustee for the PA and JM Gaglardi Senior Citizens Society, a non-profit society providing housing for seniors in Kamloops, B. C. and serves on the board of St. George’s School in Vancouver. He founded the Josh Dyck Foundation to assist Josh with his recovery from an auto accident in October 2006, which left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.
 
Gaglardi and his wife Brittney have three sons, Charlie, Bennett and Wilson, all of whom play competitive hockey. In addition to his own participation on his hockey team, Gaglardi enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family at their cottage on the shores of Kamloops Lake near Savona, B.C.
Alberts, who was named team President on March 2, 2018 and took on the role of Chief Executive Officer on July 10, 2020, oversees all aspects of the Stars business operations. Previously leading all sales and marketing, he’s also in charge of all aspects of the organization's finance and administration, box office, human resources and information technology, as well as the communications department, which has won three Dick Dillman Awards as the NHL’s Western Conference top public relations staff under his leadership.
 
Alberts' career includes nearly two decades of professional sports experience selling tickets, suites, premium seating and sponsorships. From 1996-2009, Alberts worked for the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers in various sales management roles in tickets, suites and corporate sponsorships. From 2006-09, Alberts served as the Executive Vice President of the Hicks Sports Marketing Group, the in-house sponsorship sales group for the Stars, Texas Rangers and Liverpool Football Club. In 2009, Alberts took over as the Vice President of Sponsorship and Sales at Legends/CSL, overseeing events at numerous venues around the country, most notably the Circuit of The Americas, a Formula One racing track in Austin, Texas.
 
Since rejoining the team in 2011, Alberts has played an integral role in the resurgence of the Stars in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, helping lead the organization to tremendous growth in brand visibility, attendance and sponsorship sales. Alberts and his leadership team were instrumental in the sweeping rebrand of the team, retiring the numbers of Mike Modano, Jere Lehtinen and Sergei Zubov and creating tremendous sponsorship value for the team and its partners. Under his leadership and direction, the organization hosted the 2020 Winter Classic at Cotton Bowl Stadium against the Nashville Predators. The event sold out within hours of tickets going on sale and was hailed as one of the most successful NHL events of all time, becoming the second-highest attended game in league history with a capacity crowd of 85,630.
 
Alberts received his bachelor's degree from Ripon College in 1992 where he was a four-year lettermen and co-captain of the basketball team, earning an induction into the Ripon College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. He received a master's degree in sports administration from University of Northern Colorado in 1995. Alberts is an avid golfer and fitness enthusiast. Alberts serves as a member of the American Cancer Society CEO Board, the Dallas Sports Commission Board and is actively involved in other non-profit causes in the Metroplex.
 
He resides in Dallas with his wife Kate and their daughter Grace.
DALLAS STARS EXECUTIVES
POSITION | |
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Owner, Governor and Chairman | Tom Gaglardi |
President and Chief Executive Officer | Brad Alberts |
Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer | Matt Bowman |
Chief Financial Officer | Therese Baird |
Chief Communications Officer | Dan Stuchal |
Senior Vice President, StarCenter Facilities | Damon Boettcher |
Senior Vice President, Human Resources | Lindsay Dowdy |
Special Assistant to the President | Marty Turco |
Executive Assistant to the President/CEO | Brittany McMullen |
HOCKEY OPERATIONS
POSITION | |
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General Manager | Jim Nill |
Assistant General Manager/Texas Stars General Manager | Scott White |
Assistant General Manager | Mark Janko |
Director of Player Personnel | Rich Peverley |
Player Development Coordinators |
J.J. McQueen Ben Bishop |
Player Development Coordinator/European Professional Scout | Pär Johansson |
Player Development Assistant/Amateur Scout | Jordie Benn |
Director, Team Services | Jason Rademan |
Director, Organizational Analysis | Sam Lites |
Director, Hockey Analytics | Matt Rodell |
Senior Quantitative Analyst | Brad Behan |
Coordinator, Hockey Analytics | Derek Lasker |
Executive Assistant, Hockey Operations | Lisa Clark |
COACHING STAFF | |
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Head Coach | Pete DeBoer |
Assistant Coaches |
Steve Spott Alain Nasreddine Misha Donskov |
Goaltending Coach | Jeff Reese |
Skills Coach | Stan Tugolukov |
Head Video Coach | Patrick Dolan |
Assistant Video Coach | Chris Demczuk |
Skating Coach | Luke Chilcott |
Mental Skills Consultant | Chad Bohling |
TEXAS STARS | |
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Head Coach, Texas Stars (AHL) | Neil Graham |
Assistant Coach, Texas Stars (AHL) | Travis Morin |
Assistant Coach, Texas Stars (AHL) | Max Fortunus |
Goaltender Development Coach, Texas Stars (AHL) | Ryan Daniels |
Video Coach, Texas Stars (AHL) | Josh Johnson |
SCOUTING | |
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Director, Amateur Scouting | Joe McDonnell |
Director, European Scouting | Kari Takko |
European Director of Player Personnel | Rickard Oquist |
Amateur Scouts |
Sergei Chibisov Dennis Holland Jiri Hrdina Jason Jaffray Jimmy Johnston David Kolb Shane Turner Rob Grillo Fredrik Haak Bob Emery |
Head Professional Scout | Craig Bonner |
Professional Scouts |
Paul McIntosh Matt Mangene |
Hockey Analytics Coordinator/Professional Scout |
Alex LePore |
TRAINING STAFF | |
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Director, Sports Performance | Troy Van Biezen |
Head Athletic Trainer | Dave Zeis |
Assistant Athletic Trainer | Shay McGlynn |
Head Equipment Manager | Dennis Soetaert |
Assistant Equipment Manager | Nick Lazor |
Equipment Assistants |
Andrew Stegehuis Trevor Heinzerling |
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach | Mike Donoghue |
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach | Matthew Crawley |
Physical Therapist | Roy Nelson |
Massage Therapist | D. J. Almonte |
MEDICAL STAFF
POSITION | |
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Medical Director, Orthopedic Surgery | William J. Robertson, MD |
Head Team Physician | Robert J. Dimeff, MD |
Plastic Surgery | Jeffrey M. Kenkel, MD |
Dentist | Wayne Scott, DDS |
Emergency Medicine |
Alexander Eastman, MD Marshal Isaacs, MD Brian Miller, MD |
Neuropsychology | Munro Cullum, PhD |
Assistant Team Physicians |
Jesse Even, MD Shane Miller, MD Rathna Nuti, MD |
Ophthalmology |
R. Wayne Bowman, MD Charles Shidlofsky, MD |
Chiropractor | Mary Collings, DC |
Cardiologist | Marc Krock, MD |
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
POSITION | |
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Director, Alumni Association | Bob Bassen |
COMMUNICATIONS AND BROADCASTING
POSITION | |
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Director of Communications | Joe Calvillo |
Senior Communications Manager | Lindsey Brown |
Communications Coordinator | Monique Nagel |
Communications Assistant | Sage Camosse |
Senior Staff Writer, DallasStars.com | Mike Heika |
Team Photographers |
Glenn James Tim Heitman |
TV & RADIO | |
TV/Radio Play-By-Play Announcer | Josh Bogorad |
TV/Radio Color Analyst | Daryl Reaugh |
TV Analysts |
Brien Rea Brent Severyn |
Radio Analyst | Bruce LeVine |
Director of Broadcasting | John Sponsler |
Television Producer | Jon Norton |
Television Director | Mark Vittorio |
Graphics Coordinator | Josh Clark |
CORPORATE OPERATIONS
POSITION | |
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Director, Facilities | Jack Cooper |
Director, Engineering | Andy DeShon |
Director, Building Operations | Matthew McCarthy |
Operations Manager | Jason Piche |
Operations Manager, Arena | Brian Joyce |
Special Projects Manager | Steve Sumner |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | |
Vice President, Technology | Matthew Keller |
Director, Information Technology | Jonathan Geremia |
Manager, A/V | Alex Salgado |
Assistant, A/V | Blaine Tatum |
IT Operations Engineer | Merlin Glynn |
Business Automation Specialist | Cristian Rivera |
IT Support Coordinator | Micah Warren |
IT Technicians |
Dillon Rittgers Alexa Velasquez Ochoa |
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
POSITION | |
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Vice President, Corporate Partnerships | Andrew Durbin |
Vice President, Media Sales | Kerry O'Dorisio |
Director, Activation | Matthew Singelyn |
Director, Corporate Partnerships |
Alexa Doughty |
Manager, Corporate Partnerships | Devin Lewis |
Manager, Activation | Ashley Austin |
Managers, Enterprise Partnership Development |
Chris Cesario Melvin Clark Matthew England |
Account Executive, Corporate Partnerships | Nate Hoag |
Activation Coordinators |
Caroline Coussirat Madeline Doyle Ali Ketterhagen |
Media Sales Coordinator | Madi Wade |
DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION
POSITION | |
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Chairman, Foundation Board | Marty Turco |
Vice President, Community Relations & Foundation | Chelsea Livingston |
Programs Manager, Foundation | Paul Harris |
Senior Coordinator, Foundation | Rylee Kleam |
CULTURAL GROWTH & STRATEGY
POSITION | |
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Vice President, Cultural Growth & Strategy | Alvaro Silva Montoya |
LEGAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES
POSITION | |
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Director, Human Resources | Megan Lippe |
Director, People and Culture | Jessica Nemergut |
Senior Human Resources Generalist | Brooke Wardlow |
Payroll Manager | Christian Hardin |
HR Coordinator | Ari Varona |
Payroll/HR Assistant | Melissa Mullennix |
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
POSITION | |
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Controller | Thomas Boggs |
Assistant Controller, Dallas Stars Hockey Club | Ashlyn Ray |
Assistant Controller, StarCenters | Alex Lopez |
Accounting Supervisor |
Nick Olander |
Senior Accountant | Amara Fuscardo |
Senior Staff Accountants |
Josh Eggers Peyton Hatcher Haley Meyering Erik Wilkinson |
Staff Accountant | Katie Shaw |
Treasury Associate | Denise Richardson |
Accounts Payable Clerks |
Nikki Bradford-McKinney Felicia Parker |
MARKETING AND BRAND DEVELOPMENT
POSITION | |
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Vice President, Marketing | Joanne Lovato |
Director, Marketing | Kendall Cogen |
Marketing Manager | Jordan Jones |
Digital Manager | Elena Sánchez-Freeman |
Social Media Manager | Courtney Kramer |
Digital Marketing Specialist | Cole Schoepke |
Marketing Coordinator, Comerica Center | Trevor Lyons |
PRODUCTION | |
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Director, Creative | Jeff Neal |
Manager, Production | Jordan Foreman |
Associate Producer | Brendan Bauer |
Video Producers |
Aaron Gonzales Georgi McCauley |
Multimedia Editor/Designer | Jen Metzger |
Graphic Designers |
Brian Delumpa Lorelei Ritzert |
GAME PRESENTATION | |
Senior Director, Entertainment and Events | Kevin Harp |
Manager, Game Presentation | Jonathan Maniet |
In-Arena Director | Terri McCormack |
Public Address Announcer | Jeff Kovarsky |
Anthem Singer/In-Game Host | Celena Rae |
Music Director | Jonathon Shipman |
In-Game Host | Jersey Goldman |
EVENT OPERATIONS | |
Director, Ice Girls | Robbyn Dougherty |
Senior Manager, Event Operations | Mark Johnston |
Manager, Promotions | Eric Wilder |
Coordinator, Promotions | Austin Dowdy |
Coordinator, Mascot | Nathan Sidey |
MERCHANDISE | |
Director, Merchandise | Kristopher Smith |
Coordinator, Merchandise | Alicia Sidey |
SALES, BUSINESS STRATEGY & TICKET OPERATIONS
POSITION | |
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Vice President, Ticket Sales & Service | Daniel Venegas |
Senior Director, Ticket Sales & Service | Macgregor Perkins |
Senior Manager, Ticket Sales | Lance Kay |
Manager, Client Relations | Mika Grant |
Manager, Group Sales | Lydia Ritter |
Suite Coordinator |
Robbyn Dougherty |
Coordinator, Ticket Sales & Service |
Paige Edmier |
Account Executives, New Business Development |
Kinley Coalson Curtis Grice Isaac Rosenthal |
Account Executives, Client Relations |
Justice Buford Sydney Carnefix Joann Chung Chelsea Ewing D'Khari Hicks Alli Lozano Hunter Prabhu Miles Vincent |
Service Associates, Client Relations |
Marisa Christensen Michael Walsh |
Inside Sales Representatives |
Tommy Rule Sydney Tyler |
Account Executive, Group Sales |
Jeff Ackels |
Sales Associates, Ticket Sales |
Katelyn Lawson Lauren Belloni |
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND ANALYTICS | |
Director, Business Strategy and Analytics | Benjamin Yoder |
Manager, Business Strategy and Analytics | Jed Buchholz |
Partnerships and Marketing Insights Analyst | Erica Gesner |
CRM Administrator | Ryan Howard |
TICKET OPERATIONS | |
Director, Ticket Operations | Ricky Hernandez |
Manager, Ticket Operations | Dana McCoy |
Coordinators, Ticket Operations |
Joey Montoya Barrett Harms |
CHILDREN'S HEALTH STARCENTERS
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT | |
Vice President, Amateur Sports & Partnership Development | Lucas Reid |
Director of Hockey Development | Dwight Mullins |
Director, StarCenter Business Operations | John Naylor |
Assistant Director of Youth Hockey Development | Allysen Weidner |
Director, Tournament Series | Brad Buckland |
Manager, Business Operations | Michael Houser |
Marketing Coordinator, StarCenters | Mikenzie Delgado |
Coordinator, Tournament Series | Mia Shroyer |
RINK MANAGEMENT | |
VP, Community Ice Rinks, McKinney | Dan Morris |
General Manager, Euless | Jerid Nemergut |
General Manager, Farmers Branch | Andy Gibson |
General Manager, Frisco | Keith Andresen |
General Manager, Mansfield | Milt Highfill |
Interim General Manager, Plano | Bryce Goulah |
General Manager, Richardson | Allison Carlson |
COMERICA CENTER
POSITION | |
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General Manager, Comerica Center | Michael Landin |
Manager, Box Office | Bret Guice |
Manager, Event Services | Bucky Deichert |
Event Services Coordinator | Sully Conway |