Press Conference on Super Bowl Opportunities for Local Minority & Women Owned Businesses

August 15, 2011

Tulane Public Relations
Phone: 504.865.5229

pr@tulane.edu

WHAT: The NCAA Men’s Final Four Local Organizing Committee and the New Orleans Super Bowl Committee will announce the launch of cooperative programs designed to introduce local women- and minority-owned companies to business opportunities related to major sporting events in 2012 and 2013.

WHEN:  11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 17

WHO: 

• Jacqueline Carpenter, NCAA director of Division I Men’s Basketball
• Rick Dickson, director of Athletics at Tulane University
• Tisha Ford, manager of Events Business Development with the NFL Special Events Department 
• Rod West, Entergy executive vice president and chief administrative officer and emerging business chair
  

WHERE:  New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, 2020 St. Charles Ave.  Parking behind building.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Tulane:
Roger Dunaway
504.452.2906
roger@tulane.edu

Debbie Grant
504.578.4071
dgrant@tulane.edu

NFL:
Mark Romig
504.284.8688
Mark@notmc.com