Andy Roeser

Education

Michigan State University.

Career

He also served as the alternate governor of the Clippers, representing the team in league matters among the National Basketball Association"s Board of Governors. He first served as executive vice president, and was promoted to team president in 2007. As of May 6, 2014, Roeser took an indefinite leave of absence from the team, in the aftermath of the widespread controversy after an audio recording was released containing racially insensitive comments by the team"s owner, Donald Sterling.

Roeser initially released a statement questioning the authenticity of the recording and the motives of others involved, although he subsequently apologized.

When Sterling was banned from the league in April 2014, Roeser was initially named as the person who would run the team Days later, Roeser was placed on an indefinite leave of absence, which the league said would stabilize the team and allow a newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, to move forward with a "clean slate".

He left the Clippers after Sterling sold the team to Steve Ballmer in the summer. Prior to joining the Clippers, Roeser worked at the accounting firm Ernst & Young.

He also serves as the president of the Los Angeles Clippers Foundation, the team"s charitable arm.

As Clippers" president, Roeser was largely in charge of the team"s business operations, also including negotiating player contracts. Raised in Birmingham, Michigan, he is a graduate of Michigan State University.

Achievements

• Famously, Roeser is possibly known best for his appearance at the 2009 National Basketball Association Draft Lottery, where the team won the right to pick number one overall (the pick became University of Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin), and Roeser donned a pattern designed as the Clippers" home white jersey inside his sport-jacket with the number 1 emblazoned.

Membership

Roeser was the second-longest tenured member of the Clipper franchise, beside play-by-play broadcaster Ralph Lawler, having joined the team in 1984 after its move from San Diego. He is also a board member of the Los Angeles Sports Council and Cal State Long Beach"s Advisory Board for the Graduate Program in Sports Management.