Jane Zinger is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations at IMG, the world's premier sports and entertainment company. She oversees all communications with external organizations and relationship building. Previously, she held communications roles at Burke Marketing Research and The Thomson Corporation. Arn Tellem is a sports agent and Vice Chairman of Wasserman Media Group. He has represented many notable NBA and MLB players, signing over $300 million in NBA contracts alone. Tellem got his start in sports law after graduating from law school and launched his own agency, Tellem and Associates, in 1989 before it was acquired by SFX Sports in 1999.

1. JANE ZINGER
AND
ARN TELLEM
-Anajae Lamb

2.  Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and
Publ ic Relations
WHO
IS JANE ZINGER?

3. IMG
• IMG is the worlds premier sports, entertainment, and media company.

4.  Hired to manage al l communications with other
organizations, whi le bui lding trying to bui ld external
relationships
 Average Yearly Salary: $80,000 - $300,000
 There are many job requirements and ski l ls to acquire this
position
VICE PRESIDENT
OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

5. WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

6. DURING COLLEGE
 She was a student intern at Burke Marketing Research

7. BEFORE IMG
 Before being hired to IMG she was the Vice President of
Corporate Communications for The Thomson Corporation

9. ARN TELLEM
• Sports Agent and Vice
Chairman of Wasserman
Media Group
• Born February 21, 1954
• Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania

10. WHY A SPORTS AGENT?
 He was always a huge sports fan and loved baseball
the most
 He was also inspired by spor ts attorneys Alan
Rothenberg and Steve Greenberg

11. COLLEGE YEARS
 Graduated from Haver ford Col lege in 1976 and from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1979

12. AFTER COLLEGE
• He began his career as an attorney at Manatt,
Phelps, Rothenberg, and Tunney
• He specialized in sports law and commercial
litigation

13. HIS TIME AS AN ATTORNEY
 In 1981 he signed his first athlete, pitcher Mark Langston
 He also served as general counci l for six years with the San
Diego Cl ippers
Mark Langston

14. DOING HIS OWN THING
 In 1989 he launched his own agency cal led Tellem and
Associates
 SFX Spor ts later bought his agency in 1999
 In 2006 Arn joined Wasserman Media Group with a cl ient
base of about 50 MLB players and 50 NBA players

15. HIS BIGGEST CHALLENGES
 1. Having his cl ients die at young ages and having to attend
their funeral
 2 . De a l in g wi t h c l i e n t s wh o ’ s c o u r t c a s e s i nvo l ve t h e u s e o f
per formance enhancing drugs

16. LIFE AS A SPORTS AGENT
 An average day entai ls putting together a travel schedule,
researching players, and constantly cal l ing GMs and teams
 Being a spor ts agent is a 24/7 job
 Most agents do a lot of traveling to and from di f ferent states
to meet with cl ients, future cl ients, and many dif ferent teams

17. WORDS OF ADVICE

18. NOTABLE NBA CLIENTS
 Derrick Rose
 Kobe Bryant (eventually spl it)
 Joe Johnson
 DeAndre Jordan
 Jabari Parker (2014 Draf t Pick)
 Kendrick Perkins
 Marc Gasol
 He has signed over $300,000,000 in NBA contracts alone

19. NOTABLE MLB CLIENTS
 Jason Giambi
 Hideki Matsui
 Normar Garciaparra
 Mike Mussina

20. ADVICE FOR FUTURE SPORTS AGENTS
 Leigh Steinberg -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlb5GgjDhFA