VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

Entering his 13th season with the Nets, Gary Sussman was promoted in the summer of 2003 to his current position overseeing the Nets' basketball public relations efforts, which followed eight seasons as the team's director of corporate communications. Besides serving as the Nets' primary spokesperson, Gary is responsible for all aspects of communications for the team, including day-to-day media interaction, team publicity and game-day media operations. In addition to his public relations duties, Gary is also in his 14th year as the public address voice of the Nets, which makes him the only NBA executive to assume this nightly 'double-double.'

Prior to joining the Nets, Gary was the public relations director at Yonkers Raceway for seven years, where his duties included producing and hosting a nationally syndicated, Emmy- nominated television racing program, 'Summer Racing from Yonkers,' as well as hosting an award-winning radio harness racing program on WFAS. Gary also served as the master of ceremonies for the North American Harness Writers Association national dinner and was a presenter at the Hall of Fame of the Trotter induction ceremonies.

A native of Liberty, New York, Gary received his B.A. in political science from SUNY-Albany and his M.S. in television/radio from Syracuse University. Gary and his wife, Rosemary, reside in Highland Mills, New York, and have two daughters, Marli, a junior at Cornell University, and Brynn, a sophomore in high school.