He is a member of the faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Sports Management and is in his second year teaching the course on Leadership and Management in the Sports Industry.

In recent years, PCI has provided services for numerous clients including Churchill Downs Incorporated (Pilson has been retained to consult on the license of television rights to the Kentucky Derby), NASCAR (Pilson worked with NASCAR negotiating its historic $2.4 B network television agreements with Fox, NBC and Turner and also consulted on the recent $4.5 B extension and renegotiation of those agreements with Fox, Turner, ESPN and ABC), the International Olympic Committee (Pilson was the IOC Consultant in connection with the license to NBC of U.S. television rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games for $2 B), International Association of Athletics Federations (Pilson was engaged to provide consulting and negotiating services for the license of USA broadcast rights to the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Track and Field Championships to NBC and Versus), Rose Bowl Management Committee (Pilson consulted on the negotiation of the Rose Bowl’s eight year, $300 M television agreement with ABC Sports and now serves as the television advisor to the Committee), World Series of Poker (Pilson consulted for Harrah’s on the negotiation of its initial long term program agreement with ESPN).

Also, LiveTV (provides in-flight television programming for jetBlue, Continental and other airlines), Major League Gaming (Pilson negotiated their program license agreement with USA Network in 2007 and serves on the MLG Advisory Board), Official Sports Reports (Pilson is a consultant, shareholder and Board Member of this emerging company which provides daily email sports reports to college ticket holders, boosters and alumni), RallyPoint (Pilson consults for and is a Board Member for this new venture that provides technology to display Internet functions in an interactive widget format direct to consumers’ television sets), Demand Sport Limited, based in Melbourne, Australia, which has recently licensed technology to ESPN which places relevant contextual advertising linked to game events into VOD sports clips and highlights, PlayItOver, which offers unique technology that provides digital content management and real time sports video highlights to mobile phone customers and Arena Football 1 (the new indoor league that will begin plan in April 2010). Pilson is also a member of the Executive Forum at the Coleman Research Group.

Also, PCI and L.E.K. Consulting, Inc., the worldwide consulting firm based in Los Angeles, have a working relationship to pursue sports-related projects that will maximize the assets and resources of both companies.

Clients who have engaged PCI for consulting work since the company was launched include the NCAA, Major League Baseball, Collegiate Images, the Arena Football League, US Bowling Congress, AltaView, NeuLion, Sorpresa, Teletrax, Wasserman Media Group, College Sports TV, UBS Bank, FIBA, The University of Michigan, EchoStar, Thoroughbred Championship Tour, the WTA, RazorGator, Action Sports Media, Scarborough Sports Marketing, WUSA, Family Circle Cup Tennis, Blue Gray All-Star College Football game, Virtual Spectator, The Bonham Group, the LPGA, Daytona International Speedway, the WNBPA, Vans Triple Crown Series, The University of Notre Dame, Eyetide Media, Celebrity Players Tour, Convizion Inc., Interactive Sports Signals, BeHere.com, Winstar New Media, Dentsu USA, Airia Inc., Penske Motorsports, World Team Tennis, StadiaNet Sports, Pac-10 Conference, YankeeNets LLC, Minnesota Timberwolves, iBEAM Broadcasting, Primestar, Classic Sports Network, ISL United States, Scidel Technologies, National Office of the March of Dimes, Petersen Publishing, Long Beach Grand Prix Association, Big 10 Conference, Core Digital Technologies, SWTV and others.

“Since I first joined CBS in 1976, sports on television has undergone a remarkable transformation,” Pilson said. “Where all roads once led to the three broadcast networks, now you need a map and often a guide to know where to go and how to get there. Pilson Communications, Inc. provides that service for its clients.”

A frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at sports conferences, Pilson addressed the Knight Commission on College Athletics in Miami on October, 26, 2009 on the subject of television and college sports. He was a member of a Digital Media Panel at the Wharton School and led the Paley Center Dialogue on Sports and the Media. He also addressed the NACDA Conference in New Orleans, the Conference of US Sports Commissions in Jacksonville, the Annual Meeting of the Division 1A Athletic Directors in Dallas, the Blue-Gray Association in Montgomery, numerous Street & Smith Media conferences in New York, the SG Cowen Investors Meetings in Florida, the NACMA Convention in Dallas, the Sky Forum in New York, numerous Sports Summits in New York, Atlanta and Rome, the GAISF Congress in Seoul, Sports Marketing Seminars at the University of Oregon and at the University of Kentucky, the NBA Players Association in Nassau, the Sportel meeting in Monte Carlo, the Institute of International Sport at the University of Rhode Island, various Paul Kagan Seminars, the Institute for Sports Advancement, the IEG conference in Chicago, the World Congress of Sports, the New York Law Journal Sports Seminar, the Josephthal Motor Sports Conference, the Strategic Research Institute and the International Motorsports Marketing Summit in Las Vegas. Pilson is also a Sports Power 100 selection panelist for Business Week magazine.

Pilson has also lectured at his alma mater Hamilton College, Yale Law School, Stern School of Business at New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, at Fordham’s Graduate School of Sports Marketing, at a Columbia University MBA conference, the DeVos Sports Management Program at the University of Central Florida, Seton Hall University, Phillips Exeter Academy and other institutions including the Chappaqua school system. He is a frequent on-air contributor and is often interviewed by the broadcast networks, sports radio stations, ESPN, CNN, Fox Business, PBS, Bloomberg News and CNBC, and quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Sports Illustrated, Sports Business Journal and other newspapers and publications. He participated in the State Department cultural exchange program in a live television interview with Czech sports journalists located in Prague. He has also been retained as an expert witness in numerous industry cases.

In two terms as President of CBS Sports (November 1981 – September 1983 and December 1986 – March 1994), Pilson was responsible for negotiating broadcast agreements for all of CBS’s major sports franchises including the NFL, the NCAA Basketball Tournament, The Masters, PGA Golf, the U.S. Open Tennis, college football and basketball and he handled the acquisition of domestic television rights to the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games. During his tenure, the CBS production unit won major Emmy Awards for coverage of the Final Four, NFL Football, Major League Baseball, the Daytona 500 and other events, as well as a George Foster Peabody Award for The Masters. In December 1994, the International Olympic Committee awarded Pilson the Olympic Order, the highest honor given by that organization.

Previously, he was Executive Vice President, CBS/Broadcast Group from September 1983-December 1986. Reporting to him during that period were the CBS Radio, CBS Television Stations, CBS Sports and CBS Operations Division. Representing CBS, Pilson also sat on the Board of Cablevision’s Rainbow Programming unit from 1986 to 1989. Pilson first joined CBS Sports as Director, Business Affairs in July, 1976. Before joining CBS, Pilson was in private law practice in New York and served as an executive at Metromedia, Inc. and the William Morris Agency, Inc.

Pilson received an A.B. in history from Hamilton College in 1960, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and played varsity basketball, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1963. He is the former Chairman and President of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and was a Board member of the USA Hockey Foundation and the Greater New York Chapter of the March of Dimes. In May 1991, he received the March of Dimes Sports Luncheon Founder’s Award and continues to serve on the Executive Committee for the Luncheon. He also serves on the Advisory Committee for the town of New Castle Cable TV committee, is a former Ardsley (N.Y.) Village Trustee and remains active with the USA Deaf Hockey Program based in Chicago.

Pilson and his wife Frieda live in Chappaqua, NY and Berkshire County, MA. They have three grown children and six grandchildren. Mrs. Pilson is past president of the Board of Trustees of the Katonah Museum of Art.

Michael Davies is Vice President of Technical Operations for Fox Sports in Los Angeles.  With two decades of operational and management experience in various aspects of remote production, he has specialized in technical production and innovation for large sporting events including Super Bowl XLII, the BCS, Daytona 500, and the World Series.

Davies has overseen many television firsts in his career, including the first NFL regular season game from Wembley Stadium in 2007, the first live paid 3D Sports Event (BCS 2009), and most recently, the live turnaround of the NFL on FOX Pregame show from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Previously, Mr. Davies worked for HBO Sports in New York.   He worked in operations and the technical management on the network’s Boxing and other sports series.

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Bruce Shapiro is the Coordinating technical Producer for Speed, a Fox Networks group operation. Speed is located in a state of the art facility in Charlotte North Carolina. He is responsible for the networks technical remote operations. These include NASCAR, Grand Am Rolex, ARCA, ALMS, AMA, and other series. Speed as well produces the Barrett Jackson Auto Auctions, and other motorsports events.

He has been with Speed since July 2007.

Prior to Speed, Shapiro was a freelance Technical Manager, for ESPN, MLBI, Versus, and others. He was in on the development of ESPN X-games, and the transition to HD for several networks, and corporate facilities.

Shapiro has had experience in many aspects of engineering, and operations positions in his 35 years of television, including Video Engineering, Technical Direction, Transmission and Technical Operations.

He is the recipient of 8 Emmy’s in various technical areas.

Cindy Cortell joined the Major League Baseball Network in September of 2008, as part of the Engineering and IT Department. Cindy architected the build-out of the IT network infrastructure that helped launch MLB Network on January 1, 2009. Cindy manages the Back-office and Broadcast Backbone Infrastructure for MLB Network. Cindy has over 20 years of IT expertise and has worked in Global Financial Services, Market Data, Publishing, Client Services and Accounting enterprises. Cindy has the unique expertise in building Global Datacenters with rapid deployment. Cindy has over 20 years of IT expertise in various disciplines ranging from LAN/WAN, Remote Access, SAN / Tape Storage, SQL, Server Virtualization, Network Monitoring, Wireless, Application /Network Security and Project Management. Cindy and her team recently won the 2009 New Jersey Project of the Year.

With over 25 years of experience in both the television industry, and most recently in the digital media space, John Leland has unparalleled expertise in traditional and new media operations from seamlessly integrating advanced broadcast solutions to producing major international events online.

In the beginnings of his career, Leland worked with various facilities companies in Technical Management as well as with NBC both as a Tech Manager and a Director of Sports and Olympics Technical Operations. After NBC, he transitioned into the world of sports technology and became Senior Vice President of Operations at Sportvision, a premier global provider of enhancements for sports television. From Sportvision he then moved to become Vice President of Operations at Venue Services Group (VSG) where he was responsible for system design and implementation of state-of-the-art television technologies.

Later on, John Leland held the highly regarded position of Senior Director for IMG Digital Media and while there he was the main operational lead for successful events such as New York’s Fashion Week, Model.Live, The Masters, and design implementation of a fifteen city Preditor (Producer/Editiors) System providing content for CBS Digital Media.

Throughout Leland’s career, he has received accolades for major large-scale events such as the Olympics which has brought him to be honored as a four-time Emmy Award-winning television professional (including the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics, and for technical excellence with NASCAR and the PGA Tour).

ESPN, Lead Engineer, Transport and Special Projects

Chris Williams is one of the four founding Principals of Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams, Inc., His specialty is the project management and design of electronic presentation systems for corporate, commercial and educational facilities, as well as for arenas and stadia. His work involves: multi-media systems design, video projection and display systems, television and broadcast video systems design and provisions, distributed video systems and scoreboard video design.

Chris Williams has provided broadcast consulting and video system design for many contemporary sports venues in this country and abroad.  Since 1978, he has worked in many aspects of video systems design and operation.  He has prepared programming studies, design recommendations and detailed design documentation for a wide range of video, multi-media and teleconferencing systems, for corporate clients as well as the specialized sports and public assembly facilities markets.

Chris has been a pioneering systems designer working on the unique aspect ratio video displays throughout professional sports in the last decade. The most recent examples of the work can be seen at Turner Field’s first professional High Definition video and scoring display, the renovations at the recently re-minted Rogers Centre in Toronto, and the Seattle Seahawks unique video displays at Qwest Field.

Francis Tellier, a French SUPELEC (75) graduate, after an MBA at Paris IX Dauphine, started as Exploitation Engineer at Radio France before becoming Director of Planning & Production Coordination at ORTO 92, (Host Broadcaster of the Winter Olympic Games - Albertville).

Responsible for the introduction, production & development of digital and new media services at Radio France. He moved on as Director – General at TVRS 98 (Host Broadcaster – 1998 FIFA World Cup- France).

Francis Tellier is currently the Founder & CEO of Host Broadcast Services Group.

The FIFA World Cup Host Broadcaster for:

2002 – Korea / Japan

2006 – Germany

2010 – South Africa

2014 – Brazil