Mark Lamping
{{Short description|American sports executive}}
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|occupation = Team President of the Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)
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|education = Rockhurst University
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Mark Lamping is the current team president of the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was formerly CEO of the MetLife Stadium. Prior to his stint in New York, he was president of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, a post he held from September 1, 1994, until March 13, 2008. Lamping is now a non-executive director of English association football team Fulham, which is owned by Jaguars owner Shahid Khan.{{cite web| url = http://www.fulhamfc.com/shahid-khan/directors| title = Fulham FC - Directors}}
Life and career
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A graduate of St. John Vianney High School in the St. Louis area, Lamping was a prominent sports-marketing executive at Anheuser-Busch before his job with the Cardinals.{{cite web|url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/B01F824178ED2CD18625740C000986E7?OpenDocument |title=Lamping resigns from Cards, takes job in New York |accessdate=2008-03-14 |last=Miklasz |first=Bernie |date=2008-03-13 |publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315052225/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/B01F824178ED2CD18625740C000986E7?OpenDocument |archivedate=2008-03-15 }} On Thursday, March 13, 2008, he resigned as president of the Cardinals to become chief executive officer of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, where he oversaw the opening of The "Meadowlands," the new New York Giants and New York Jets football stadium.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070622190521/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/team/front_office.jsp?c_id=stl The Official Site of The St. Louis Cardinals: Team: Front Office] Lamping is a graduate of Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Notes and references
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Category:Rockhurst University alumni
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