2012 Media Guide - MLB.com - Colorado Rockies

Greg Feasel
Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer
Greg Feasel enters his seventeenth year with the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club and
second as Chief Operating Officer. As such, Greg manages all aspects of the organization’s
business operations—including all revenue areas, customer service, ticket sales and operations,
corporate sales, publications, broadcasting, community affairs, merchandising, promotions,
special events, premier suites and party facilities, information systems, and human
resources, in addition to all day-to-day operations at Coors Field.
In 2011, the organization enjoyed its sixth consecutive year of growth in ticket sales—
making Coors Field the ballpark with the third-highest attendance out of all thirty major league
teams for 2011.
Greg joined the Rockies prior to the 1996 season after serving as a Division Director of Sales and Marketing for
Coca-Cola Enterprises where he was responsible for all revenue areas and key accounts, while overseeing the day-today
operations of a Distribution and Sales Center. Greg is also a former educator in Texas and Colorado.
A graduate of Abilene Christian University, Greg was inducted into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame in February
2005. Along with his brother, Grant, he was also selected for the ACU All-Century Team in 2005. Greg was a professional
football player from 1983–1987. His career included time with the Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers and the
Denver Gold in the United States Football League.
In addition to his responsibilities with the Rockies, Greg is also very active in the community. He currently serves
as a Board Member of the Downtown Denver Partnership/Denver Civic Ventures Board, the Denver Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce, VISIT DENVER (The Convention and Visitors Bureau), the University of Colorado Denver Business School
Sports and Entertainment Management Advisory Council and is Executive Director of the Colorado Rockies Baseball
Club Foundation. He has also served as President of Colorado’s chapter of the NFL Alumni Association and as a
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johnson & Wales University.
Greg, his wife, Lynn, and their daughter, Zoie, reside in Denver.
Hal Roth
Executive Vice President - CFO & General Counsel
Hal Roth has served as the Rockies' Chief Financial Officer since August 1993 and
General Counsel since the summer of 2000. He begins his 20th year with the organization.
Hal is responsible for all the financial and legal functions of the club, including accounting,
banking, insurance, contracts and litigation.
Prior to joining the club, Hal was a partner with the public accounting firm of Coopers &
Lybrand for 19 years, 1975-93, where he specialized in taxation. He holds a Bachelor's
Degree from Albion College, an M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Denver and an L.L.M
(in taxation) from NYU. Hal is also a certified public accountant (inactive).
Hal and his wife, Connie, have two sons, Reilly and Rory, and reside in Englewood. He
has served on a variety of charitable boards, including the Colorado Council on Economic Education, Colorado Children’s
Chorale, the Colorado Neurological Institute, and Seniors Inc. Hal is currently an advisor to DECA, a high school business
program. His hobbies include golf, skiing, and climbing Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks during the summer.
Bill Geivett
Senior Vice President - Scouting & Player Development/Asst. GM
Bill Geivett was named Senior Vice President of Scouting and Player Development,
Assistant General Manager in January of 2011 after serving the previous seven seasons as
the Rockies Assistant General Manager and Vice President of Player Development. He oversees
both scouting and player development, while also assisting Dan O’Dowd with all baseball
decisions and evaluations.
Geivett, 48, joined the Rockies November 11, 2000 and is in his 12th season with the
club, his 25th in professional baseball. Geivett has overseen the Rockies player personnel
since his initial season with the club in 2000; he was given the additional responsibility of overseeing
the Rockies farm system in 2003.
On Opening Day 2009, the Rockies put together an entire lineup of homegrown players, the only team in the Majors
to accomplish that feat in 2009. Additionally, when the Rockies clinched their second postseason appearance in a span
of three years, a 9-2 win vs. Milwaukee on October 1, 2009, all nine players in the starting lineup were either originally
drafted or signed by Colorado.
In 2007, the Rockies were named the Organization of the Year by Baseball America after the club reached the
World Series. Colorado’s World Series roster featured 16 players who were originally drafted or signed by the Rockies.
In 2004, the Rockies Minor League system produced both the Minor League Player of the Year (Jeff Francis) and Minor
League Rolaids Relief Man winner (Ryan Speier), the first organization to ever claim both awards in the same season.
Bill came to Colorado from the Dodgers where he had worked since September of 1998, most recently as Assistant
General Manager (2000). Prior to that, he was the Special Assistant to the GM for Tampa Bay. From 1994-96, he headed
Montreal’s farm system, which garnered the coveted Topps Organization of the Year honors in 1996. He broke into
the Majors with the Yankees as a scout and organizational instructor in 1991. He coached collegiately at Loyola
Marymount (1989-90) and Long Beach State (1991).
Geivett played four seasons of professional baseball in the California Angels organization until sustaining a careerending
knee injury with Double-A Midland in 1988. As a collegian, the third baseman received All-America accolades at
the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is a member of the UC Santa Barbara Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of
Fame. He also attended Sacramento City College and was drafted four times overall during the early 1980s.
Geivett has a Master's Degree from Azusa Pacific University (1991) and is an active member for the Society for
American Baseball Research (SABR).
He and his wife, Bonnie, make their home in Parker, CO, with their children Rachel and Sam.
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