Doug Logan
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Commissioner of Major League Soccer
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| In office 1996 – 1999 |
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| Succeeded by | Don Garber |
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Doug Logan was named the first commissioner of Major League Soccer, serving in that capacity from the inauguration of the league in 1995 to 1999, when he was replaced by Don Garber. He led the league through a record-breaking inaugural season, averaging over 17,000 attendance per match. Sports Business Daily named Logan and the MLS staff Sports Industrialists of the Year for 1996.
A sports and entertainment consultant, entrepreneur and life-long sports enthusiast, Logan formed Empresario, LLC in 1999, serving diverse clients in North America, Central America, South America and Spain. In 2001, he was brought in as a consultant in the creation of a professional National Rugby League, much in the same vein as MLS, structuring the new league as a "single entity" system. Logan also serves as Chairman and CEO of Face_iT Technologies, Inc., a company devoted to exploiting innovative facial animation technologies for the film and gaming industries.
Logan was the promoter of the first commercial Arena Football League game in April, 1985. He was a founder, regent and lecturer at the School for Public Assembly Management in Oglebay, WV. From 1993 until 1995 Logan served as Director General of OCESA, SA, the largest concert promotion company in Mexico.
Raised in a bi-lingual, multi-cultural family, Logan speaks, reads and writes Spanish fluently.
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Commissioner of Major League Soccer 1996-1999 |
Succeeded by Don Garber |
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