Former MLSE executive named CEO of Premier League's Newcastle United

He moved on to work for Real Madrid, as global head of partnerships, and then Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., where, as president and CEO, he led the business operations of the New York Rangers and Knicks. Brian Cooper, a former MLSE executive who both worked with Hopkinson at MLSE and sat on the other side of the negotiating table from him, calls Hopkinson “the next gen of sports business leaders.” “He has been put in difficult situations, whether it’s MLSE with the three-headed ownership group at the time on...