Stephen Zito:
CLASS OF 1979
Newton North High SchoolClass of 1979
Newtonville, MA
Stephen's Story
Life
As Senior Vice President, Operations & Entertainment for the Memphis Grizzlies, Zito oversees all aspects of management of FedExForum, including event booking, event operations, facility services, guest relations, security and public safety, parking, information technology and engineering/HVAC/trades.
Zito joined the Memphis Grizzlies and FedExForum in March 2005. He has over 25 years of senior level management experience in public assembly facilities management. Most recently, he spent nearly four years as Vice President and General Manager of Facilities and Entertainment for the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, where he oversaw the design, construction and all operations of the SBC Center (now the AT&T Center) which is home to the San Antonio Spurs, which opened in 2002. He also oversaw the design and construction of the Spurs practice facility. His day-to-day responsibilities included overseeing booking of the SBC Center as well as overseeing all day-to-day operations of the SBC Center; Spurs practice facility as well as the management of a twin ice rink complex in San Antonio.
Zito had been in San Antonio since 1993. Prior to joining the Spurs, in 1993 he was responsible for overseeing the final ...Expand for more
phase of construction and the development and implementation of all operational procedures and all day-to-day operations for the 65,000-seat, 1.6 million sq'Â Alamodome as Facility Manager. He also oversaw all day-to-day operations of the Nelson Wolf Municipal Baseball Stadium in San Antonio.
He graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1985 with a major in Sport Management and concentration in Facility Management, and went on to graduate in 1990 from Oglebay Public Assembly Facility Management School, which was accredited by North Carolina State University. He is a Certified Facility Executive, a recent graduate of the Leadership Academy and is a member of the International Association of Assembly Managers. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, a board member of the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality & Resort Management at the University of Memphis, a board member of the Memphis-Shelby County Crime Commission, a board member of the ChildrenÂs Museum of Memphis and a board member of the YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South. He and his wife, Debbie, have two children, Delaney and Zachry. He enjoys church, all sports and riding his motorcycle.
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