Earthquakes Staff/Front Office

Michael Crowley

President

Entering his second season as President of the Earthquakes, Mike Crowley will continue to oversee all aspects of the business. He emphasizes the importance of building a team with local community ownership and has been actively involved in securing a soccer specific stadium for the Earthquakes.

Under Crowley's leadership, the Quakes had a very successful 2008 season, as the team posted the third highest average attendance in Quakes history and the highest number of individual tickets sold per team in the league. With Crowley at the helm, Earthquakes also saw an increase in sponsorship as the Quakes signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with Amway Global. Crowley oversaw the four-million dollar renovations made to Buck Shaw Stadium at Santa Clara University and greatly influenced the establishing of a strategic partnership with the English Premier League's Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Crowley also serves as president of the Oakland Athletics. The 2008 season marks Michael Crowley's eleventh year with the Athletics' organization and his tenth as president after being named to the position on September 28, 1998. His tenure is the second longest among those who have served in the same capacity since 1968. A limited partner in the Athletics ownership group, Crowley is responsible for the overall day-to-day functioning of the Athletics' organization both on the business and baseball sides of the operation, working directly with Managing Partner Lewis Wolff.

After spending three years in the San Jose office of Price Waterhouse and nine years with I.C.I./Fuller O'Brien Paints, Crowley joined the Athletics organization in July 1997 as vice president and chief financial officer. Considered a key figure in the A's resurgence as one of baseball's premier franchises, Crowley has been committed to fielding a championship caliber team with homegrown talent. He works closely with General Manager Billy Beane on key player decisions and issues relating to the baseball operations overall objectives and philosophies.

In 1999, Crowley and his wife, Kathy, played a key role in implementing the Oakland A's Breast Cancer Awareness Day, which has raised close to $875,000 for cancer-related causes over the last eight years. Crowley currently serves on the Bay Area Board of Trustees of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), which aims to create a respected, influential and nationwide family of schools that are successful in helping educationally underserved students develop the knowledge, skills and character to succeed in college and in the competitive world beyond. He also served on the board of top business executives and community leaders which attempted to land the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in the Bay Area.

A native Californian, Crowley graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1985 with a degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting. He earned his MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1992. In November of 2002, Crowley was named one of Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal's 40 Under 40", honoring the nation's top sport executives under the age of 40. Crowley resides in Cupertino with his wife Kathy and their three children.