Martie Cordaro
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Martie Cordaro is an American baseball and soccer executive who is the team president of the Omaha Storm Chasers, the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals, and USL League One professional soccer team Union Omaha.
Cordaro is a 1991 graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing, and served three seasons as director of marketing for his alma mater's baseball program. At the same time, he also worked as general manager in the property management department for Today's Realty, Inc. In 1991, Cordaro graduated from Ruston High School in Louisiana. Cordaro played drums in several bands, most notably in high school and college with artists such as Robert Schneider, of Apples in Stereo and The Elephant 6 Recording Company; and Jeff Mangum. He also primarily played in Stonybridge as well as Pummel with music industry leader, Brad Belanger. Martie currently plays drums in Nebraska band, Strange Pleasures.[1]
Early career
Cordaro began his professional baseball career with the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx (Double-A, Chicago Cubs) of the Southern League as a group sales representative in 1999.[2][3] He then would go on to spend two seasons as director of sales for the Birmingham Barons,[3] the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, before becoming general manager for the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays then the Single-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, for two years.[3]
Omaha Storm Chasers
Cordaro moved to Omaha in 2007, joining the organization as assistant general manager before being promoted to the general manager the next year.
Cordaro played a large role in every aspect of the research, negotiation process and project management to build a new ballpark for the Storm Chasers in Sarpy County, allowing Triple-A Baseball to remain in the Omaha metro area.[4] He was also involved in orchestrating and negotiating the ballpark's naming rights partnership with Sarpy County-based Werner Enterprises for Werner Park.
Cordaro led the process of the rebranding and renaming of the Omaha Triple-A franchise that included much research and fan-aided voting.[5] Under his leadership, the organization has posted its highest total revenues on record during the past five seasons. During the 2015 season Cordaro and the organization hosted the First National Bank 2015 Triple-A All-Star Game.