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Charlie Stillitano, Jr. ’77
Los Angelesbased
Creative
Artists Agency
(CAA), one
of the world’s
largest talent
agencies for
leading actors
and actresses, recently expanded their
operations to include sports, and they
hired international soccer consultant
Charlie Stillitano, Jr. ’77 in November
2007 to develop their soccer initiatives.
He represents clubs and players in
their commercial activities.
One year into his new position, Charlie
is happy he made the switch to CAA
from ChampionsWorld, LLC, a sports
marketing company that he founded
and of which he was CEO; he says his
ChampionsWorld clients—including
Chelsea Football Club in London—
will benefit from new opportunities
at CAA.
“I’m really enjoying this [new] stage of
my career, which will be, I hope, taking
an American company and expanding
it globally [to be] one of the real players
in the soccer world. There are plenty
of companies in Europe and South
America that are highly-developed
and influential in the world of soccer,
but no American company is [really
influential]. I’ve always liked building
companies,” he says.
Soccer has been Charlie’s life ever since
his days as an All-State soccer player
for Pingry; he was captain of the team
in 1976, and he was inducted into the
Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998 as a
member of the 1974 Soccer Team and
in 2005 as an individual. He continued
to play at Princeton University where
he was captain and an All-American.
Charlie later coached at Princeton
while attending Rutgers University
School of Law-Newark.
In 1992, his career in soccer started
when he became Venue Executive
Director for the FIFA World Cup USA
1994 New York/New Jersey Venue,
putting him in charge of New York and
New Jersey. In conjunction with the
U.S.’s vision to build 1,994 World Cup
“legacy fields,” Pingry’s World Cup
Field was the only one built, and it
served as the training field for the
Italian National Team.
Charlie found that a career in soccer
promotions and management held great
promise, and he still feels that way.
“It’s sort of counter-intuitive because
sports marketing is big in the United
States because of baseball, football,
basketball, and hockey—not because
of soccer. But I see it differently because
there are so few people in the sport of
soccer, and there are so many opportunities
from coaching to sponsorship to
marketing that are not yet developed
in soccer,” he says.
Recognized by many people as a soccer
expert, Charlie is also a co-host for
SIRIUS Satellite Radio. He and soccer
star Giorgio Chinaglia are in their third
year hosting a three-hour call-in program,
“The Football Show,” which airs
Wednesdays at 5 p.m. ET on Channel
125. They cover the best teams around
the world with analysis and interviews,
and they host the pre-game show for
“Chelsea True Blue” an hour before
Chelsea Football Club games.
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be attending graduate school
in beer brewing at UC Davis.
My youngest son took a gap
year after high school to work
at an outdoor equipment
store in Burlington, Vt,
and entered the University
of Vermont this fall, studying
ecological agriculture.”
1971
Jon Sarkin was featured in
The Sunday Star-Ledger on
December 7, 2008, in a special
16-page section called
“The Accidental Artist.”
1974
Glenn Murphy: “After 23
years on the pastoral staff
at two churches in central
New Jersey, I have taken the
plunge and opened a counseling
and psychotherapy
practice in Basking Ridge,
N.J. I’ve been providing
therapy part-time for a
number of years, but now
will be working full-time
with individuals and couples
who are struggling emotionally,
relationally, or psychologically.”
The web site is
GlennMurphyCounseling.
com
1979
1977
Dr. Geoffrey M. Duyk, who
graduated from Wesleyan
University in 1980, has
joined Wesleyan’s Board of
Trustees. He is partner and
managing director of TPG
Biotech in San Francisco.
From left: Phil Lovett, Chris Bartlett, Miller Bugliari ’52, and
Leighton Welch.
1980
Susan Quinn was recently
named Chief Librarian of
the Toms River Branch of
the Ocean County Library
in New Jersey. “Throughout
my life I have always been
grateful for the excellent
education that I received
at Pingry,” she says.
1986
John Carr, a poster artist
and anti-war activist, was
honored on October 4,
2008, at the Center for the
Study of Political Graphics
in Los Angeles for founding
“Yo! What Happened to
Peace” This collection of
posters protesting the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq
continues to travel across the
United States and the world.
John, upon invitation, has