Angela Leaney

EVP Brand Marketing
The World Famous Harlem Globetrotters

This is The World Famous Harlem Globetrotters'  85th year touring and entertaining millions of fans in every continent (except Antarctica). It is Angela Leaney's first year with the franchise as its EVP Brand Marketing.  Her chief responsibility is to introduce new generations of fans to what is possibly the best-loved sports entertainment franchise in the world.

Leaney came to the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters from Newsweek, where she was CMO. She previously spent eight years at MTV Networks, where she was SVP Creative Director, for Nickelodeon's parents and preschool media. In her tenure there, she was responsible for brand strategy, image and promotional creative, helping to successfully launch and brand two new TV networks, launch one website, and re-launch the number one preschool TV network in the USA.  

From 1990-1999, Leaney worked as an account director and account planner at the London offices of advertising agencies in the BBDO, Chiat and Interpublic networks. In 1996, she joined Ogilvy & Mather London as an account planner and then in 1999, she moved to the agency’s office in Los Angeles as Agency Partner and Head of Account Planning and Research.

Born in London, Leaney earned her Bachelor of Arts with Honors degree in Medieval and Modern History at University College London. She is now a proud permanent resident alien with an American husband and first grader whom she is teaching the rules of cricket and the correct pronunciation of the word “tomato.”

She cannot spin a basketball on her finger. She cannot dunk. She cannot shoot a free throw. But she will not stop trying until she can.