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BUFFY GORDON FILIPPELL, President |
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If you are sending Buffy a resume, please create an online record instead of emailing her.
Over 32,000 men and women have a job in sports through Buffy Gordon Filippell - either through her executive search practice, TeamWork Consulting, or through her online executive recruiting software system, TeamWork Online.
As a sophomore transfer in 1973, Buffy walked onto the women’s tennis team of Indiana University, a Big Ten Division I team. In the spring, the USTA invited the top 2 players of each women’s collegiate team to their national collegiate championship. The top 7 IU players passed on the opportunity and by the mere fact of raising her hand, the eighth ranked player, Buffy, was Indiana University’s only player representative in the 1974 USTA Women’s National Collegiate Tennis Championship. She drew the #13 seed, Candy Reynolds, and went down to defeat in a whopping 15 minutes. This was her first tennis tournament experience. Buffy subsequently graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree and with a few more tennis competitions, a varsity letter in tennis.
Presumably, any National Collegiate Championship participation appealed to Wilson Sporting Goods who hired Buffy into their tennis marketing promotions department to manage their women professionals, juniors and tournament sponsorship. Subsequently, she was promoted to London, England to manage both golf and tennis marketing promotions for Wilson’s European distributors. In 1978, while providing up-and-coming Tracy Austin with her Wilson products at Wimbledon, Buffy was recruited to Mark McCormack’s International Management Group to be their first female tennis agent. She then signed Andrea Jaeger and managed both the Men’s Tennis Legends Tour, staring Australian greats Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall, and the Charlton Heston Pro Celebrity Tour. She concurrently represented the tour and served as the first Commissioner of the Women’s Professional Racquetball Association.
Buffy accompanied her husband, Mark, for a little over a year in Turin, Italy for his work, and they returned to Cleveland by 1985. She joined Korn/Ferry International, a worldwide executive recruiting firm who had recruited Peter Ueberroth to head the 1984 Olympic Games. Although she assisted on searches for senior executives in banking, manufacturing, insurance and industrial products, Buffy focused her new business efforts on sports and brought in and led executive searches for the Women's Tennis Association, LPGA, U.S. Cycling Federation, Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association, Prince and the Women's International Pro Tennis Council.
After resigning from Korn/Ferry due to her father’s death in 1987, Buffy launched a first-of-its-kind search business, a boutique retained executive search firm specifically geared towards recruiting middle to senior level executives for sports teams, leagues, associations, arenas, high profile sporting events, corporate sponsors, sports marketing agencies and some sporting goods companies. Since then, TeamWork Consulting has become one of the most recognized names in executive search for sports and live events by recruiting over 350 executive positions with such notable sports organizations such as NASCAR; PGA TOUR; National Basketball Association; National Football League; National Hockey League; Major League Soccer, International Motor Speedway; Olympic Governing Bodies of Skiing, Cycling, Boxing; corporate sponsors such as Wells Fargo Bank, Anderson Consulting; agencies such as Velocity Sports & Entertainment; Millsport; Wunderman Cato Johnson and ProServ, and major events such as the 1994 World Cup and 1999 Women's World Cup (soccer), and Olympic Games in Salt Lake. Her clients have included numerous NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB teams. She's recruited Commissioners of Leagues, team presidents, Chief Operating Officers of major events, and senior level executives with sports sponsors and agencies.
During the internet boom of the late 1990s, Buffy created and introduced a technical online version of her executive recruiting process, and named it TeamWork Online. The software system replicated her successful executive search methods in notifying appropriate prospective candidates, screening the right candidates, developing candidate profiles, and online interviewing techniques so teams, leagues and sports organizations could use the internet to quickly and cost effectively identify and recruit their candidates through their own websites. This software system and subsequent network launched in the fall of 1999 has attracted over 1,400,000 candidate records applying for over 35,000 jobs across 60+ recruiting systems and has filled 90% of all jobs posted with online candidates in the last 12 months. In 11 years the system has filled over 32,000 positions with online candidates. TeamWork Online’s 700+ minor/professional team, league, organization, and national governing body clients include many of its leading brands.
Buffy currently serves as an Associate Board Member for Indiana University's Dean of the School of Health Physical Education and Recreation as it is transitions to a School of Public Health. She has led two sports marketing high school internship initiatives promoting Hawken School athletics in Gates Mills, OH in cooperation with the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Cavaliers. In 1987, she founded the Ohio Games (earlier called the Ohio Sports Festival), a statewide amateur Olympic-type event for athletes of all ages in the state of Ohio. She also served on the Executive Committee of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission until 1999. She was formerly a Trustee on the Board of the Women's Sports Foundation and co-published the first Directory of Women in Sports Business with Richard Lipsey. In 2001, she was awarded the Visionary Award at the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Innovation in Business Conference which was sponsored by SBN Magazine. Then, in 2006, Indiana University recognized her as their HPER Alumni Leadership and Achievement Award winner as part of their celebration of National Girls and Women in Sport day.
Buffy and Mark, have a 21-year-old son, Davis, a junior at Williams College.
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