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Managing Owner/CEO/Alternate Governor
Brian Petrovek joined Chairman Lyman Bullard as a Managing Owner/CEO of Portland
Pirates LLC during the summer of 2000. Petrovek came to the Pirates after working
the previous seven years with USA Hockey, Inc. and The USA Hockey Foundation in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
As Managing Owner/CEO, Petrovek oversees the short and long term needs of the business, represents the franchise as an alternate governor at the League level, and participates regularly as a
member of various league committees. He took the lead role in developing the
Pirates' winning bids for the 2003 Dodge AHL All-Star Classic and the 2010 Time Warner Cable AHL All-Star Classic joining
Rochester, Hershey and Providence as the only cities to host more than one AHL
All-Star event in the league's history.
Locally, Petrovek has served as Board Chair of the United Way of Greater
Portland (2007-2009), has been a member of the United Way's Annual Campaign Cabinet since
2001, and Chaired the 2004 United Way Annual Campaign.
Petrovek was inducted into the Junior Achievement of Maine Business Hall of Fame in
2008, an honor given to the state's most distinguished businessmen and women
for their outstanding contributions to free enterprise and the promise of a better,
stronger society. He also received the 2008 Henri A. Benoit Award for Leadership in
the Private Sector from the Portland Regional Chamber, not only for his successful stewardship of the Pirates organization,
but also for his extraordinary contribution to the greater Portland community.
Petrovek serves on the City Manager's Business Advisory Council. He was also recently named a MaineHealth Corporator,
one of over 500 community leaders from around the region who provide the community
oversight for the not-for-profit MaineHealth organization. Petrovek serves in the
same capacity for Gorham Savings Bank.
Petrovek served as President of 211 Maine, Inc. from
2003 through 2007 and is also on the Boards of Maine Medical Center, the Greater Portland Community
Chamber, Portland's Downtown District and is an officer of the Cumberland Club. He will serve as the
President of Portland's Downtown District through 2011. Petrovek chaired the Boy Scout Pine Tree Council's Annual Campaign
in 2007, and will serve as Honorary Chair of the Children's Museum of Maine's 2008
Annual Campaign. In 2006, Petrovek and his wife, Sara co-chaired the American Heart
Association’s Southern Maine Heart Walk helping to raise over $250,000.
In July of 2003, Petrovek formed the Portland Pirates Foundation and serves as the
President. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Maine public charity representing the
philanthropic arm of Portland Pirates LLC. Its mission is to enrich and impact
the greater Portland region through educational, sports-based, community and
fundraising activities and programs.
Petrovek joined USA Hockey's national staff in June 1993 as Assistant Executive
Director before being promoted to the positions of Deputy Executive Director of
USA Hockey, Inc., and Executive Director of The USA Hockey Foundation in 1998.
In 1999, Petrovek spearheaded the creation of Serving The American Rinks (STARTM),
a 501(c)(6) national facilities association established in conjunction with the
United States Figure Skating Association. STARTM designs and implements programs
to foster the development, growth and success of ice skating rinks and inline
facilities throughout the country.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Petrovek served as Team Leader
for the United States team that captured the championship of the World Cup of Hockey
in 1996. He was also Team Leader for the 1997 U.S. National Team and the 1998 U.S.
Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team.
Prior to joining USA Hockey, Petrovek served as Vice President of Marketing for the
NHL's New Jersey Devils from 1989-93. From 1987-89, Petrovek was Executive Director
of the American Hockey League's Utica Devils, New Jersey's top minor league affiliate
at the time. He began his professional career as Assistant Commissioner of the Eastern
College Athletic Conference in 1978, a post he held through 1982.
Petrovek received both his bachelor's (1977) and master's degrees (1980) from Harvard
University, where he earned All-America honors as a goaltender in 1975 and was twice
named to the All-Ivy League Team (1974-75, 1976-77). In 1977, he was named the Most
Valuable Player of the Beanpot, one of college hockey's oldest tournaments. In
October 1998, he was inducted into the Harvard University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Petrovek, who played youth hockey
in the greater Boston area, was one of four goaltenders invited to the final U.S.
Olympic Team Trials Camp in 1976. He was drafted by both the Los Angeles Kings of
the National Hockey League and the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association
in 1975.
Petrovek and his wife, Sara, are the proud parents of two daughters and one son -
Ginny, Ana and Steven - and reside in Yarmouth.
E-mail: bpetrovek@portlandpirates.com
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