Jason Levien

Who is Jason Levien?

Jason Levien is the co-owner of the Major League Soccer club D.C. United and the former CEO of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies.

Levien oversaw the Memphis Grizzlies' basketball and business operations from 2012 until June 2014, hiring the club's current head coach Dave Joerger and VP of Basketball Operations John Hollinger. The team posted a 106-58 regular season record from 2012 thru the 2013-14 season and won more playoff games in that two-season period than it had won in the franchise's history, including its first ever trip to the Western Conference Finals. In 2013, ESPN The Magazine's Ultimate Standings named the Memphis Grizzlies as the best sports franchise in North America.

Levien is an attorney and earlier in his career he served as both a sports agent who has represented professional athletes in the NBA, NFL, MLB and other sports leagues in the United States and across the globe, and as a member of the front offices of the Sacramento Kings and Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA. He was an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he taught sports law.