Derrick M Hall

D-backs President & CEO Derrick Hall has been at the helm of the club for 18 years and is the fourth-longest tenured CEO in Major League Baseball behind Atlanta’s Terry McGuirk, St. Louis’s Bill DeWitt Jr. and Cincinnati’s Bob Castellini, each of whom have a controlling ownership interest in their respective franchises. Hall’s leadership has helped guide the D-backs to three postseason appearances - two National League West Division Championships (2007, ‘11), one NLCS (2007) and the Wild Card (2017). In 2017, the D-backs captured the National League Wild Card after Hall and Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick hired Executive Vice President & General Manager Mike Hazen to oversee the franchise’s baseball operations and during the past three seasons, the team has posted a 285-261 record (.522). The D-backs eliminated more than $350 million of debt through equity and debt restructures in the 15 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, while Hall also negotiated the largest financial transaction in franchise history - a historic 20-year television rights deal with FOX Sports Arizona which started in 2016. In 2021, the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation and the D-backs’ organization will surpass the $75 million mark in charitable giving since their inception in 1998, including more than $65 million in the past 15 years. In 2014, the team launched the D-backs Give Back Jersey program, which will outfit more than 60,000 youth players across 123 leagues this season. During the 2013 Yarnell Hill fire, the D-backs were able to give back more than $700,000 on behalf of their fans to the families of the 19 firefighters who lost their lives. In 2008, Hall established the Michael Wogan Season Ticket Scholarship Program. Among the programs Hall has created is the President’s Council, comprised of select members of the executive management team and a rotating committee consisting of the organization’s Employee of the Month winners, to organize company culture events throughout the year. He also established employee recognition programs like “A-Game All-Stars” to reward game-day employees for exceptional service on a monthly basis throughout the season. Hall’s vision to further establish the organization as a sports industry leader while spurring economic development and impact throughout the Valley came to fruition in 2011, as the team hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Chase Field for the first time ever, creating an economic impact of more than $67 million. Hall’s persistence in convincing MLB to award the Midsummer Classic to the D-backs allowed Chase Field and Downtown Phoenix to be showcased in more than 100 million homes across the world, while working diligently with city leaders, elected officials and civic partners to ensure that fans had the finest All-Star Game experience. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the D-backs’ 140-acre Spring Training facility shared with Colorado Rockies on Salt River Indian Community land near Scottsdale, Ariz., that Hall negotiated and designed, has greatly added to the already $350 million of economic impact for the Valley associated with Spring Training each year. Salt River Fields was the first pro sports training facility in the U.S. to be built on tribal land and was privately funded without the use of any taxpayer dollars. The facility received LEED-Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2011, the first venue of its kind to achieve this designation. Hall serves as the chair of MLB’s working group of club presidents focused on marketing the game of baseball. He routinely communicates with D-backs fans as part of his “one fan at a time” concept by answering every letter, email or phone call. He conducts regular chats online and spends much of his time at home games communicating with the fans in the stands to ensure their experience at Chase Field is exceptional. Hall was personally selected to join a handful of corporate leaders by Governor Doug Ducey as one of his first orders of business to form a new pro-business group. The Arizona Zanjeros are focused exclusively on economic development, defining Arizona’s brand and marketing the state to CEOs across the country and around the world. In 2015, he joined the Governor’s delegation on a weeklong trip to Israel. Additionally, the Arizona Attorney General has commissioned Hall to serve on the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Business Advisory Council. Hall sits on Major League Baseball’s International Committee and under his guidance, the D-backs hosted the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The team has played eight games in Mexico during his tenure and were scheduled to play in the first-ever Major League regular season games in Mexico City 2020 prior to being canceled. Hall has represented the team on goodwill trips to Mexico, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Australia and New Zealand, helping to bring international recognition to the franchise. A native of Los Angeles, Hall joined the D-backs in May 2005 as Senior Vice President, Communications and served in numerous capacities prior to being named president in 2006 and adding the title of CEO in 2009. Prior to joining the D-backs, Hall made a brief stop as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications for a Fortune 500 company based in Los Angeles. He spent parts of 12 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, joining the organization’s Single-A Florida State League affiliate in Vero Beach, Fla., as an intern in 1992 and departing as the club’s Sr. Vice President, Communications in 2004. In between, he served key roles during three ownership changes with the Dodgers and was recognized for reuniting Fernando Valenzuela with the organization after hiring him as a color analyst for the team’s Spanish radio broadcasts. Hall stepped outside of baseball for employment during the 1999 season, as he hosted a three-hour morning talk show on the Dodgers’ flagship station (XTRA 1150 AM) and served as host of the “Dodger Game Day” pregame radio show for home games. He also had a stint in front of the camera as a weekend sports anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He received a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in 1991, in broadcasting and journalism, and a master’s degree from Ohio University in sports administration. Hall and his wife, Amy were co-chairs of ASU President Michael Crow’s President’s Club in 2018-19 and in 2019, the Derrick Hall/Arizona Diamondbacks Journalism and Mass Communications Scholarship was created in his name. He faced his greatest personal challenge when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2011, just as the team was battling for a division title. Hall immediately went public with the diagnosis in order to encourage other men to get tested after age 40.. He and Amy reside in Arcadia and have three children, Logan (a television producer in Los Angeles), Hayden (a recent graduate of Duke University) and Kylie (a soccer player at Emory University).