Terry Pegula has a new leadership team in place at the Buffalo Bills – and the owner himself is in the center of it.
The team announced Wednesday afternoon that Pegula is stepping into the team president role long held by his wife, Kim Pegula, who has been away from work since suffering cardiac arrest 13 months ago.
At the same time, Ron Raccuia, the executive who led the team’s negotiations for a $1.54 billion stadium and who ran the Bills’ non-football operations in Kim Pegula’s absence, is out.
“We would like to thank Ron for his many years hard work and dedication with the Bills and PSE (Pegula Sports and Entertainment),” Terry Pegula said in a statement released by the team. “We wish he and his family the best of luck in his future endeavors.”
Replacing Raccuia as the Bills’ executive vice president and chief operating officer is John Roth, who is also COO of the Buffalo Sabres and PSE. Roth, who joined the Buffalo Sabres in January after 24 years as an investor and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, will now hold all three positions.
The Bills’ new management committee also will include Kathryn D’Angelo as general counsel and senior vice president of business administration and Josh Dziurlikowski as senior vice president of finance and business administration. Both were already part of the Bills’ executive team.
“After taking time over the past several months to evaluate the business side of our operation, we wanted to revamp and improve our structure,” Pegula said in the story published on the team website. “We have a tremendous amount of confidence in this management committee we have constructed. I have had a high level of trust and strong working relationships with John, Kathryn and Josh over the years and expect them each to successfully continue to lead our business operations in the years to come.”
Here’s a look at what we know about the impact of the changes on the Bills’…
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