Lee Ann Daly On the Spot

ESPN’s svp of marketing says she was an “activities gadfly” in college, and since then, she’s worked in advertising (at Grey and Ammirati Puris Lintas), co-founded a comedy-based radio-production company (Are These My Shoes?) and studied to become a chef at New York’s French Culinary Institute. Since joining ESPN as vp of advertising and program marketing in 1997 (she was promoted two years later), Daly says her goal has been to “have enough brains to let a good idea happen.”