FRANK REMESCH
GM, ROYAL FARMS ARENA, BALTIMORE
HOMETOWN: Baltimore.
UNIVERSITY: University of Maryland, Baltimore
FIRST JOB IN THE INDUSTRY: Building electrician right here at Royal Farms Arena.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR CURRENT JOB: I moved up; I’ve only worked in this building my entire career.
FAVORITE PART OF YOUR JOB: Closing a deal; seeing the audience at a sold-out show.
WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF NOT THIS: I’d own a small farm where I’d take in abandoned pets.
MENTORS: Donna Julian, Hank Abate and my dad.
WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD DO WHEN YOU WERE A KID: Baseball player.
FREE TIME PURSUITS: Play baseball, lift weights, rescue English Mastiffs.
ONE-DAY ESCAPE: Montana.
TOP SONG ON YOUR PLAYLIST RIGHT NOW: Megadeth or the Eagles, depending on my mood.
WHAT IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING SONG ON YOUR PLAYLIST RIGHT NOW: “Love Machine” by the Miracles.
FAMOUS PERSON YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT YOU: I’m a little OCD about fixing things.
BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: Where the mind goes the body follows.
FAVORITE LIVE EVENT ATTENDED: A Pam Shriver tennis event; she was awesome and had celebrities play the game while she ‘roasted’ them.
DESIRED SUPER POWER: To fly.
JACKIE NAPARLO
DIRECTOR OF BOOKING FOR SMG RICHMOND (VA.)
HOMETOWN: Hillsboro, N.H.
UNIVERSITY: James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, Va.
FIRST JOB IN THE INDUSTRY: Assistant to Ted Mankin at Live Nation in D.C.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR CURRENT JOB: Don Wehner with Upfront Inc. gave my resume to Dolly Vogt at SMG Richmond.
FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: The relationships you build and that every day is different.
WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF NOT THIS: I’d be a stay-at-home mom.
MENTORS: I was lucky enough to work for two extremely strong women in the industry, Gayle Holcomb with WME and Dolly Vogt, my current boss. I don’t think either of them know what an impact they’ve made on me.
WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD DO WHEN YOU WERE A KID: I wanted to be a forensic psychologist until my first music industry class at university.
BIGGEST PET PEEVE: Slow walkers.
ONE-DAY ESCAPE: The spa.
TOP SONG ON YOUR PLAYLIST RIGHT NOW: My playlist basically consists of all Michael Franti.
WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT YOU: I’ve only had one hamburger in my entire life, which was at my wedding.
BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: When you have a general impulse to do something, follow it, whether it’s starting a business or reorganizing your file cabinets; just do it. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just start it or else you’ll never start anything.
FAVORITE LIVE EVENT: Prince in 2006 in Washington, D.C., at a tiny club called Nation Nightclub 3am.
TIM FENNELL
PRESIDENT & CEO, SAN DIEGO COUNTY FAIR, DEL MAR, CALIF.
HOMETOWN: Bridgeport, Conn.
UNIVERSITY: St. Bonaventure University, Olean, N.Y.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR CURRENT JOB: Paul Allen is responsible. Paul bought the Trail Blazers and built a new building and my job at the old building disappeared. We came to visit Del Mar and a headhunter contacted me.
MENTOR: Cliff Wallace.
FREE TIME PURSUITS: Work out, go on horse drives.
BIGGEST PET PEEVE: Bureaucracy.
TOP SONG ON YOUR PLAYLIST RIGHT NOW: “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” by Toby Keith.
FAMOUS PERSON YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET: Martin Luther King, Jr.
WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT YOU: I used to work on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.
BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: Never give up.
IF YOU COULD HAVE AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE: Happiness.
BIGGEST GUILTY PLEASURE: Sneaking into the coffee room and eating everyone’s chocolate.
FAVORITE LIVE EVENT ATTENDED: Muhammad Ali in the Heavyweight Championship in 1977 at the Capital Centre, Landover, Md.
PREFERRED SUPER POWER: To cure cancer.