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Title: VP, national accounts, affiliate sales and marketing, ESPN

Year of birth: 1973

Big break: After a college internship at ESPN, Mr. Preschlack was invited back to help coordinate a Time Warner affiliate event in New York.

Who knew? Mr. Preschlack’s mother mistakenly accused his boss, Sean Bratches, president of Disney and ESPN affiliate relations, of stealing her quilt comforter after he spent an evening at their house.