LFC Press Statement
Liverpool Football Club today announce that Thomas Hicks Jr has resigned as a director of both the club and its parent company Kop Holdings.
Three new directors have been elected to the boards of both companies.
These are Philip Nash, LFC Chief Financial Officer; Ian Ayre, LFC Commercial Director; and Casey Coffman, Executive Vice President of Hicks Holdings.
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Casey Coffman serves as the Executive Vice President of Hicks Holdings, and is also the Chief Operating Officer of Hicks Sports Group. She is very active in the Hicks family’s day-to-day oversight of its sports teams’ business operations, including the Dallas Stars Hockey Club; the Texas Rangers Baseball Club; 50 percent of Liverpool Football Club; 50 percent of Center Operating Company, which operates American Airlines Center; and the Mesquite Championship Rodeo.
Coffman works closely with Stars President Jeff Cogen, Rangers President Nolan Ryan, Hicks Sports Marketing President Jim Lites and Liverpool Chief Executive Officer Rick Parry in all areas of the teams’ business efforts, and is a Hicks designee on the Board of Directors of Center Operating Company, along with Tom Hicks and Lites. She also serves as Executive Vice President of Hicks Holdings LLC, a role she has held since 2004.
Coffman also provides day-to-day oversight of the Hicks family’s sports-related real estate developments: the land adjacent to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Champions Park in Frisco and Cedar Park in the Austin suburb of the same name. Champions Park will be an office, residential and hotel development adjacent to the Dallas Stars headquarters, Deja Blue Arena and Dr Pepper Ballpark in Frisco. Cedar Park will be home to the Texas Stars, Dallas’ American Hockey League development affiliate, starting in 2009-10. The 6,700-seat Cedar Park Event Center will have 24 suites and 545 club seats with a private club lounge. A retail site of 17 acres is adjacent to the facility grounds for mixed-use development that will include 91,000 square feet for retail and 91,000 square feet for commercial, developed by Hicks Cedar Park.
Coffman also maintains oversight over the Hicks’ Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, luxury home and hotel development project in Bariloche, Argentina.
Coffman joined Hicks Holdings in October, 2000, as Vice President and General Counsel after nine years with The Coca-Cola Company. From 1999-2000, she served as counsel to The Minute Maid Company, where she was heavily involved with Minute Maid’s marketing relationship with the Houston Astros. From 1994-1999, she lived in Southeast Asia where she served as counsel to Coca-Cola’s division in Bangkok, Thailand, and its bottling division in Singapore. Prior to that she was based in Atlanta where she was involved in several sports-related transactions involving MLB, the NFL and the Olympics.
Graduating Summa Cum Laude, Coffman received her BA in political science and communications from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1989 and earned her JD with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1992. She clerked for the Honorable John Cornyn on the Texas Supreme Court from 1992-1993.
Ms. Coffman serves on the North Texas Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters and is currently the Dallas Chairperson of its capital campaign for Children in Crisis. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of The Real Estate Council.
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