Len Komoroski is Chief Executive Officer of the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena organization. The organization includes the Calder Cup Champion Cleveland Monsters (AHL), Cleveland Gladiators (AFL), and Canton Charge (NBADL). In addition, he plays a leadership role for business operations and business-related endeavors for Cavs majority owner Dan Gilbert’s family of sports and entertainment interests in Ohio. He is also a principal in JACK Entertainment, which operates JACK Casino Cleveland and JACK Thistledown Racino. In addition, Komoroski played a significant leadership role in securing Cleveland as the host city for the 2016 Republican National Convention.
 
With more than 30 years of experience in pro sports and entertainment, Komoroski’s leadership has helped set a solid business foundation from which the Cleveland Cavaliers, Lake Erie Monsters, Cleveland Gladiators, Canton Charge and Quicken Loans Arena have flourished into one of the most successfully operated sports and entertainment organizations in the country.
 
Komoroski joined the Cavaliers organization in 2003 as president. In his first year, he restructured and transformed how the Cavaliers approached the business community; assembled a team of top sports marketing pros; transformed the organization’s communications efforts; and oversaw the development of one of the most dynamic game experiences in the NBA.
 
Other accomplishments at the helm of the Cavaliers business operations include playing pivotal roles in developing one of the top cable television relationships in the NBA with Fox Sports Ohio, as well as securing the entitlement of the Cavaliers new state-of-the-art player development center - Cleveland Clinic Courts. Komoroski also played a leadership role in the acquisition of the Monsters (AHL), Charge (NBDL) and Gladiators (AFL). Additionally, he was instrumental in establishing The Q’s new relationship with Cleveland State University to promote CSU Vikings basketball and book events at the Wolstein Center.
 
The Cavaliers franchise is consistently recognized within the pro sports team industry (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and MLS) as a business model for “best practices,” and has been a finalist for Sports Business Journal’s prestigious “Sports Team of the Year” award several times in past years. The award recognizes excellence, creativity and innovation in franchise business operations. The Cavs strong business model was also recognized at the 2016 NBA Sales and Marketing meetings, where the team brought home a league-high six awards, including the coveted Game Experience Satisfaction award.
 
As one of the seven Principles of JACK Entertainment, Komoroski played an instrumental role in bringing first-class, full-service casino gaming to downtown Cleveland and Cincinnati along with thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of positive economic impact for local and statewide communities.
 
Very active as a community and civic leader, he serves on the board of directors of AXS/Veritix, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, Destination Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland chapter of the United Way. He is also a trustee for Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital and Cleveland State University.  Komoroski was named Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland’s (SME) 2013 Business Executive of the Year, and in 2014 received the PRSA John Hill Award for his outstanding understanding and support of communications by an organization's president or chief executive officer.
 
Prior to joining the Cavaliers organization, Komoroski was the Senior Vice President and Chief of Business Operations with the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles (1996-2003). There, he played a pivotal role in the Eagles’ growth and business success, which included bringing the Eagles Television Network in-house and helping to develop the Eagles training facility and then broker the record-setting, multi-million dollar naming rights deal for the NovaCare Complex.  He also helped lead the development of Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles state-of-the-art stadium and secured a 20-year, $140 million naming rights agreement with Lincoln Financial Group which, at the time, was one of the largest such agreements in pro sports history. 
 
Prior to the Eagles, Komoroski was the Senior Vice President and COO of the International Hockey League’s (IHL) Cleveland Lumberjacks (1994-96). The team was one of three profitable IHL teams in 1996. His first stint in the NBA was with Minnesota Timberwolves as Vice President of Sales (1988-1994), there he played a major role in the start-up of the team and its arena, the Target Center. Komoroski is a 1982 cum laude graduate of Duquesne University.  He and his wife Denise have three daughters – Kristin, Kelly, and Jamie, and a son, Zachary.