Dick Glover

Dick Glover is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sportico, a digital content platform providing sports industry news, data, insights, strategies, leadership and live media for professionals in the $500 billion sports industry.

Prior to joining Sportico, Dick served as President and CEO Mandalay Sports Media, which he joined after spending seven years as President and CEO of Funny or Die. Before joining Funny or Die, Dick was Vice President of Broadcasting and New Media for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and for NASCAR Digital Entertainment. At NASCAR, Dick ran the Los Angeles office overseeing all television, new media businesses, entertainment programming and promotion on behalf of the sport.

A 20-year veteran of broadcasting and media, Dick was previously an Executive at the Walt Disney Company in various Senior Management roles in their ABC and Internet Groups. Dick also spent seven years with ESPN, most recently as Executive Vice President, Programming where he was responsible for all aspects of ESPN, Inc.’s domestic programming efforts, which included ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic and ESPN.com. He was the executive in charge of the planning, development and launch of ESPN.com in 1994 and was instrumental in the site’s impressive growth to its current position as an industry leader.

Dick graduated from Duke University with a degree in economics.