University Southern California Trojans
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Associate Athletic Director (Strategic Partnerships, Social/Video Brand & Licensing)
- Email:
- Phone:
- (213) 740-9872
Jose Eskenazi is an associate athletic director with USC Athletics in charge of strategic partnerships, social media, video production, brand and licensing. He began at USC in 2003 as an assistant athletic director for sponsorships and licensing before being promoted in 2006.
Jose oversees USC’s sponsorship endeavors via a partnership with FOX Sports/USC Sports Properties. He is also responsible for USC Athletics Brand & Licensing business. Additionally, he is the liaison for USC with the PAC-12 Network working on television related business with the conference.
Prior to USC, Jose spent five years (1998-2003) at the Los Angeles Times, as a Project Manager working on the launch of latimes.com and was promoted to Department Manager of Consumer Events in March 2000. His team produced events such as the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books among others…Before that he spent nearly 5 years (1994-1998) with Nike, inc., first as the Nike campus representative for USC…later became a project manager for Nike Sports Entertainment where he was involved in producing global sporting events like the Tiger Woods Invitational, The Brazil World Tour and Nike Hoop Heroes.
He received his bachelor’s degree in business marketing from USC in 1995. He received a certificate from the Sports Management Institute in 2004.
