Patrick J. Gallagher

Patrick Joseph Gallagher (born February 23, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is thePresident of San Francisco Giants Enterprises and Chairman of the San Francisco Convention and Tourism Bureau

The longest serving executive in San Francisco Giants history, Pat Gallagher is credited for being one of the most creative marketing and business minds in professional sports. The son of an engineer, Gallagher began his career in marketing with Sea World amusement parks in San Diego and Ohio. In 1976, while working at Marine World amusement park in Redwood City, California, Gallagher was hired by Giants owner Bob Lurie as the team's Marketing Director, a relatively new concept at the time.

Croix De Candlestick

Faced with the task of filling infamously cold Candlestick Park, Gallagher rose to the occasion with some of the most brilliant marketing concepts of the time. With campaigns such as the Croix De Candlestick (a button given to any fan who braved the elements and remained for an extra inning night game), Crazy Crab, and the Doofus Dome, Gallagher and the Giants were recipients of multiple EFFIE awards, the global Marketing industry's annual award for excellence in effective marketing, a Clio award, and several Major League Baseball Marketing Excellence awards.

Rising through the Giants ranks for almost thirty years, Gallagher has held a variety of positions with the club. As Senior Vice President of Business Operations of the club, Gallagher took a lead role in implementing a business plan to build Pacific Bell Park (now AT&T Park), the first privately financed baseball stadium in over forty years.

Currently, Gallagher is the President of Giants Enterprises, and is now concentrating on bringing non-baseball events to AT&T Park. Gaining national and international recognition for innovative uses of AT&T Park, he is a founder of the Emerald Bowl, a NCAA college bowl game played at AT&T Park annually. Other events include concerts such as Dave Matthews Band,The Rolling Stones,and Bruce Springsteen, Greenday, Cirque du Soleil, international soccer matches, and Supercross, to name a few.

He is also the current Chairman of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, former President of the San Francisco Bay Area Big Brothers/Big Sisters Foundation and Board member of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

External links

* [http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com San Francisco Giants]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/07/07/tidbits2.html San Francisco Business Journal Profile]
* [http://www.sfcvb.org//members/exec_board.asp San Francisco Convention and Tourism Bureau]