Brendan Donohue

As President of the NBA 2K League, Brendan Donohue oversees the first official esports league operated by a U.S. professional sports league. A sports industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in team and league operations, Donohue manages a league that features 24 teams and is celebrating its fifth season in 2022.

Previously, Donohue served as Senior Vice President of the NBA’s industry-renowned Team Marketing & Business Operations (TMBO) department, where he led the strategic planning and management for all teams across the NBA, WNBA and NBA G League, helping them innovate in sales, marking, digital and analytical areas of their business. He was instrumental in several of TMBO’s accomplishments, including assisting with ownership transitions in Sacramento, Philadelphia, Detroit and Memphis.