{"id":2529,"date":"2019-02-08T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:00:02","slug":"chris-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/chris-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Director of Digital Business Development, Chris Foster manages the National Hockey League&#8217;s existing digital syndication portfolio, identifying new digital revenue opportunities through distribution and licensing partnerships, and direct-to-consumer, advertising-supported and sponsorship campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Foster is the project lead for the NHL\u2019s partnership with SAP, the enterprise application software and database leader, and oversees this partnership\u2019s fan-facing, digital initiatives for the League. Foster also manages the business strategy for key third-party digital partners including YouTube, Yahoo, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and Taboola.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the NHL, Foster worked for various digital and mobile startups in the sports and lifestyle verticals in capacities such as product manager, creative director and marketing lead.<\/p>\n<p>Foster holds a M.S. in Sports Management from Columbia University and a B.A. from Georgetown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Director of Digital Business Development, Chris Foster manages the National Hockey League&#8217;s existing digital syndication portfolio, identifying new digital revenue opportunities through distribution and licensing<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","category-sports-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.education.miami.edu\/miamisportconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}