VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNICATIONS

Barry Baum is in his fourth full season as the Nets vice president of business & entertainment communications. In addition to serving as the spokesperson for the team’s ownership and business side of the organization, Baum is responsible for all aspects of corporate, entertainment, and community communications for the team. Baum, 39, is also part of the public relations effort regarding the Frank Gehry-designed Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the future home of the Nets.

Prior to joining the Nets, Baum was a publicist for Dan Klores Communications (DKC), a public relations firm in New York. During his three and a half years at DKC, Baum worked on a wide range of accounts, including Forest City Ratner Companies, ESPN, the Washington Redskins, Lincoln Center, Meredith Books and the Kidney & Urology Foundation of America.

Baum was a sportswriter from 1994-01 at the New York Post, for which he broke a host of major stories covering professional, college and high school teams. Baum was featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story in 1996 regarding his reporting, and has been an expert commentator on several national and local television and radio shows.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Baum was a ballboy for the New York Knicks from 1984-87, and hosted a talk show about basketball on Manhattan Cable from 1985-87. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Emily, and their two sons, Noah and Hayden.