Influencer Summit | 2024

Tim Mead spent 40 years in Major League Baseball, prior to a two-year stint as President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

Mead spent his entire baseball career with the Los Angeles Angels organization, including his final 22 years as the team’s Vice President of Communications. In that role, Mead oversaw the team’s media relations, publicity and broadcasting operations. Immediately prior, he served as Angels’ Assistant General Manager from 1994-97.

Mead, who began his career as an intern in the Angels’ Public Relations department in 1980, was appointed Director of Media Relations in 1985 and assumed the role of Assistant Vice President of Media Relations in 1991. During his tenure in Media Relations, Mead and his staff were responsible for the handling of media during the Angels' 1986, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2014 postseason appearances, the 1989 and 2010 All-Star Games at Angel Stadium and the Angels’ 2002 World Series Championship season.

He was the 2000 recipient of the prestigious Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence, awarded annually by Major League Baseball to an industry executive whose ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism, and humanitarianism best represent the standards propounded by Robert O. Fishel. He was also honored in 2005 with the first Distinguished Alumnus Award for Athletics by his alma mater, California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. In 2012, Mead was recognized by the American Diabetes Association and the Orange County Father's Day Council as one of four Father of the Year recipients, an award bestowed to 100 men from across the nation who portray and epitomize family, citizenship, charity, civility, and responsibility in their everyday lives.

Born in Athens, Greece, Mead is a 1980 graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications. A dedicated member of the Southern California community, he has served on the board of directors for the Ronald McDonald House and assisted numerous charitable groups and programs, including Amigos de los Niños, the Sunburst Youth Academy and the Gang Reduction Intervention Program (GRIP). Mead has also served on the advisory committee for the sports management program at Long Beach State University and the Dean's advisory board for the College of Communications at Cal State Fullerton. He and his wife Carole have one son, Brandon, and two grandchildren, Logan, and Lana.

Kate Sheets is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Affairs for the Global Partnerships division of AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company. Acting as an internal agency for AEG, Global Partnerships oversees worldwide sponsorship sales and activation for over 130 world-class platforms across five continents and numerous other assets, including venues, sports franchises, events, tours, festivals and digital content among other AEG holdings.

Sheets leads efforts to identify, cultivate and refine key partnerships and strategic initiatives, ensuring that they contribute to the overall growth targets and key priorities of AEG Global Partnerships. Working closely with business leaders within Global Partnerships and across the global AEG enterprise, she is directly responsible for providing strategic counsel and insight into all major revenue growth initiatives for the division, and she also helps set the vision and strategy for the optimization of partner campaigns and content. Having structured and negotiated multi-asset sponsorship agreements on a local and global scale in her previous role as Vice President, Legal Counsel at AEG, she is integrally involved in helping grow and advance the global deal-making strategies, new business opportunities and annual revenues generated by GP.

Sheets joined AEG in 2016 as a member of the AEG Legal Department, where she started as Legal Counsel and was later promoted to Vice President, Legal Counsel. In that role, she was responsible for advising AEG’s executive management on key business and legal matters, as well as handling a wide range of general corporate and contractual issues, most of which were centered around supporting the day-to-day operations of one of the many stadiums, arenas and entertainment complexes or professional sports franchises that AEG owns or manages. She also worked extensively with the Global Partnerships team helping secure lucrative deals for AEG owned franchises (Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Galaxy), events (Nike 3on3 Basketball Tournament, All-Star Chef Classic) and arenas (Crypto.com Arena, L.A. LIVE, Dignity Health Sports Park), including multi-million-dollar founding partnerships and naming rights arrangements with major brands. Most recently, in 2021 she led all legal negotiations for the record-breaking 20-year Crypto.com Arena naming rights agreement which Global Partnerships brokered on behalf of AEG. The landmark deal valued at nearly $750 million is the single largest naming rights agreement of its kind in the history of the sports industry to date.

Prior to joining AEG, Sheets spent close to three years as an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP in Los Angeles. While there, she focused on large-scale mergers and acquisitions and securities matters for public and private companies. Sheets began her legal career at Foley & Lardner LLP in Los Angeles as a member of the firm’s Transactional & Securities and Sports Industry Teams. It was during this time that Sheets was first introduced to sports law work through her participation in the historic acquisition by Guggenheim Baseball Management of the Los Angeles Dodgers. At the time, it was the biggest deal in sports, shattering industry records.

In 2022, Sheets was named to Sports Business Journal’s “Game Changers,” honoring women who are innovators and trailblazers in sports and entertainment. In 2016, she was also recognized by Super Lawyers for her outstanding career accomplishments on the Super Lawyers Rising Stars Southern California list as well as by Los Angeles Magazine where she was included on their 2016 Top Attorneys Rising Stars list.

David Kim, M.D. is Chief Executive Officer for the MemorialCare Medical Foundation, a physician organization and part of the not-for-profit MemorialCare Health Systems and Executive Vice President of MemorialCare’s Clinical Institutes. MemorialCare is a leading Southern California integrated health care delivery system. In his role as CEO, he oversees a network of 110 primary care physicians and over 700 contracted or employed specialist physicians spanning the five-hospital MemorialCare system. He has extensive firsthand experience in physician leadership, implementation of Electronic Health Records for physician groups, performance improvement, and developing and running utilization management programs, disease management programs, and physician compensation systems.

Prior to joining MemorialCare, he led the Clinical Network division of Providence, a $24 billion health system based in Renton, Washington. Spanning seven states across the Western U.S., Providence includes 52 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a diverse family of Catholic, other faith-based and mission-driven secular organizations dedicated to enhancing the overall health of the communities served. As Executive Vice President and Chief Executive of the Providence Clinical Network, Dr. Kim leads what was formerly known as Physician Enterprise (medical groups across Providence), the Ambulatory Care Network (same day care including urgent care, ExpressCare, ambulatory surgery and imaging, and partnerships, i.e., Walgreens), and the Clinical Institutes (focused hubs of care, coordination, and research for select specialty areas).

A family medicine physician by training and now respected physician leader, Dr. Kim has served in several leadership roles across Providence, including Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive for Providence Medical Foundation - Orange County and High Desert region, where he partnered with physicians and administrators to help grow Providence into one of the largest physician practice management organizations in California.

Dr. Kim received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Medicine and served his residency at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. He holds a master’s degree in applied physiology from the Chicago Medical School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and biology from Northwestern University. Originally from Chicago, Dr. Kim now resides in Tustin, California with his wife of 15 years and three daughters.