Ishwara Glassman Chrein

Ishwara Glassman Chrein was most recently President of the Chicago Fire Football Club, where she led all business operations and revenue creation for the Major League Soccer club. Before joining the Fire, she was the head of sports partnerships and business development at Yahoo Sports/Verizon Media. She began her career at McKinsey & Company and Lehman Brothers, before spending nine years at IMG Sports, most recently as SVP and Global Head of Sales Operations and Strategic Planning.

She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia with a degree in economics and political science and received her Master in International Affairs (International Finance and Business) from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Glassman Chrein earned Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award in 2020.

She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, two kids, and one enormous golden retriever.