Senior Vice President, Operations and Technology NBA Entertainment Steve Hellmuth rejoined NBA Entertainment in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Operations and Technology, in December 2000. He is responsible for overseeing the league’s Information Technology, Broadcast Operations and Engineering departments and managing the development for the NBA’s and WNBA’s network of web sites. Hellmuth also oversees the development and implementation of the NBA Facility Standards for the design, construction and operation of NBA arenas.

Hellmuth spent two years as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Major League Baseball Productions, where he supervised the programming and production of all MLB television content, the historical archives of all film and video, specials with network partners and the creation of a new MLB statistics system.

Prior to joining Major League Baseball, Hellmuth served as Vice President, Operations for NBA Entertainment and was responsible for the technical and operational planning, and management for NBAE. He also oversaw the creation of broadcast standards for new arena design and the design of a real-time statistics system.

Before Hellmuth’s initial nine-year tenure at the NBA, he served as General Manager for Potomac Television Communications in Washington, D.C. He also worked at NBC in New York City from 1979 to 1987 serving as Production Manager for the sports division. Hellmuth produced the Emmy nominated telecast openings for the 1986 World Series, and coordinated the production of Olympic profiles for the 1980 Moscow games. Hellmuth graduated from Princeton University in 1975 with a Bachelors Degree in Art History. He resides in New Jersey with his wife, Theresa, and their children, Alexandra and Nick.