by
Jeffrey Boxer
| 12/12/2011
Besides the occasional intramural game at Brandeis, Michael Gliedman '85 was never much of a basketball player. Yet, the Scarsdale, N.Y. native has found himself "running point" for one of the largest and fastest-growing teams in the NBA: the league's information technology department. Gliedman is in his 12th year as senior vice president and chief information officer with the NBA, a job that, according to his biography on the league's website, has him "[overseeing] the league's drive to become one of the preeminent technology-driven sports organizations in the world." More specifically, Gliedman's team serves nearly 250 technical systems across 13 different countries. "On one hand, it's a traditional IT [information technology] setup," Gliedman explained.
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