The Athletic Leadership

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Adam Hansmann and Alex Mather founded The Athletic.

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The Athletic executives

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The The Athletic executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
61% of the management team is White.
6% of The Athletic management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Adam Hansmann

Founder

Alex Mather

Founder

Balen Gore

Chief Technology Officer

Balen Gore is working as the CTO of The Athletic. Balen Gore attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Deepen Parikh

Board Member

John Kim

Board Member

Sid Tiwari

Chief Financial Officer

Sid Tiwari is a Chief Financial Officer at The Athletic and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Vice President, Corporate Advisory at Blackstone Group; Analyst at Citigroup Inc.; and Co-Founder at Jeweliq. Sid works or has worked as Associate at Blackstone Group. He attended University of California Berkeley between 2002 and 2006.

Alex Kay Jelski

Editor-In-Chief

Alex Kay Jelski is an Editor-in-chief at The Athletic and is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. He has worked as Deputy Sports Editor at DailyMail, Sub-editor at DailyMail, and Sports Editor at The Times. Alex studied at University of Edinburgh between 2003 and 2007 and University College School between 1997 and 2003.

Brooke Berns

Chief of Staff

Brooke Berns is a Chief of Staff at The Athletic.

Craig Custance

Editor-In-Chief NHL-Us, Group Managing Editor (Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Florida)

Craig Custance is The Athletic's Editor-in-Chief for the NHL-US and group managing editor for Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Florida. He's also host of The Full 60 podcast. He was a national hockey writer for ESPN and ESPN The Magazine from 2011 to 2017 and Sporting News from 2008 to 2011. He also covered the Atlanta Thrashers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. On May 26, 2017, Custance announced he was leaving ESPN. On June 19, 2017 he announced via Twitter that he would be joining The Athletic to launch their new Detroit division.

Daniel Leff

Board Member

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The Athletic founders

Name & TitleBio

Adam Hansmann

Founder

Alex Mather

Founder

The Athletic board members

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Deepen Parikh

Board Member

John Kim

Board Member

Daniel Leff

Board Member

The Athletic leadership demographics

The Athletic gender distribution in management team

The The Athletic executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
The Athletic is 37% female and 63% male company-wide.

Male

77%

Company-wide: 63%

Female

23%

Company-wide: 37%

The Athletic executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among The Athletic executive officers is White.
61% of the management team is White.
21% of The Athletic's management is Asian.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
66% of employees are White.
14% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
11% of employees are Black or African American.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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