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Te XAN S<br />
John Vidalin<br />
Vice President, Sales and Marketing<br />
5th NFL Season • 5th with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
John Vidalin enters his fifth season with the<br />
<strong>Texans</strong> as vice president of sales and marketing.<br />
Vidalin oversees all of the team’s corporate partnerships<br />
and sales of all related properties, team<br />
promotional rights, broadcast inventory, branding,<br />
fan development , marketing and events.<br />
Vidalin is also responsible for directing the<br />
<strong>Texans</strong> gameday experience, <strong>Houston</strong><strong>Texans</strong>.<br />
com, advertising, in-game productions, TORO,<br />
the <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong> Cheerleaders and team<br />
merchandise.<br />
Vidalin came to the <strong>Texans</strong> from the Washington<br />
Capitals of the NHL where he served as vice<br />
president of marketing, in charge of all branding,<br />
advertising, media, fan development, merchandise<br />
and game operations efforts. During his time<br />
with the Capitals, the team won three Golden<br />
Matrix awards for “Best Opening Video” and<br />
“Best Show in Professional Sports.”<br />
Prior to the Capitals, Vidalin was vice president<br />
of client service with MGM Communications, a<br />
full-service advertising agency based in Calgary,<br />
Alberta. Previously he also served as director of<br />
marketing for the Calgary Flames of the NHL for<br />
six seasons and as key accounts manager with<br />
Alberto Culver Canada.<br />
Vidalin resides on the board of Directors for<br />
the <strong>Houston</strong> Area Boys and Girls Clubs and the<br />
YMCA as well as an Advisory board member to<br />
the Baylor Sports Sales program.<br />
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,<br />
Vidalin is a graduate of communications from<br />
Lethbridge College at Lethbridge, Alberta. He<br />
and his wife, Carol, have two daughters, Amy and<br />
Allison.<br />
Executives<br />
Greg Watson<br />
Vice President of Finance<br />
9th NFL Season • 9th with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Greg Watson joined The McNair Group and the<br />
<strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong> in November 1999 after working<br />
as an international finance associate in the<br />
energy industry. In his current position as vice<br />
president of finance, Watson is involved in all<br />
aspects of the team’s debt and equity financing<br />
activities, long range financial forecasting and<br />
special project analyses.<br />
His other responsibilities include financial analysis,<br />
due diligence and deal structuring for The<br />
McNair Group private equity investments.<br />
Watson received his Bachelor of Arts in political<br />
science from Vanderbilt University and his MBA<br />
with a focus on finance and entrepreneurship<br />
from The University of Texas. He and his wife,<br />
Cathy, both native <strong>Houston</strong>ians, live in <strong>Houston</strong><br />
with their children, Claire, William and Gardner.<br />
Tex ans<br />
Tidbit<br />
AFC’s Returning Sack Leader<br />
With 14.0 sacks in 2007, DE Mario Williams finished third among the NFL’s<br />
sack leaders. Williams’ sack total was second the AFC, trailing only Kansas<br />
City’s Jared Allen. With Allen’s move to Minnesota in the offseason, Williams<br />
becomes the returning sack leader in the AFC.<br />
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