Staff Directory

Steve Stroud

Title:
General Manager
Email:
Phone:
313-1994

Stroud was hired as the General Manager of Tulane Sports Properties in October of 2024.

Stroud brings a combination of vast industry experience and significant local knowledge to the Tulane Sports Properties team having held revenue generation and fundraising roles at six different athletic departments since beginning his professional career, with the last five years coming on the lakefront at the nearby University of New Orleans.

Stroud arrives in Uptown after serving as Assistant Vice President and Deputy Athletics Director at UNO, where he led all revenue generation units as well as human resources and contract services. His previous stops in revenue generation roles included Troy University (2014-19), College of Charleston (2011-14), and University of Missouri-Kansas City (2009-10). His college athletics career got off the ground in fundraising, spending two years at the University of Miami (2000-02) before moving to the University of Memphis (2003-07).

As General Manager, Stroud will serve as the primary Learfield liaison related to the university's comprehensive athletics multimedia rights agreement and corporate partner platform. He will work closely with Harris and the entire athletics administration on all aspects of the relationship between Learfield and Tulane Athletics. Stroud holds bachelor's degrees in marketing and finance from the University of Georgia as well as a master's degree from St. Thomas University.