Portland Pirates Foundation

Brian S. Petrovek - President

Brian Petrovek joined Chairman Lyman Bullard as a Managing Owner/CEO of Portland Pirates LLC during the summer of 2000. Petrovek came to the Pirates after working the previous seven years with USA Hockey, Inc. and The USA Hockey Foundation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

As Managing Owner/CEO and one of three members of the LLC's Board of Managers, Petrovek focuses on the company's business strategy, represents the franchise as an alternate governor at the League level, and participates regularly as a member of various league committees. He took the lead role in developing the Pirates' winning bid for the 2003 Dodge AHL All-Star Classic, staging one of the most successful All-Star Classics in the history of the AHL. Locally, he currently serves as Board Chair of the United Way of Greater Portland, has been a member of the United Way's Annual Campaign Cabinet since 2001, and Chaired the 2004 United Way Annual Campaign.

Petrovek was inducted into the Junior Achievement Maine Business Hall of Fame on May 7, 2008, an honor given to the state's most distinguished businessmen and women for their outstanding contributions to free enterprise and the promise of a better, stronger society. He also received the 2008 Henri A. Benoit Award for Leadership in the Private Sector, not only for his successful stewardship of the Pirates organization, but also for his extraordinary contribution to the greater Portland community through financial support and volunteerism to local agencies and charities over the years he has lived and worked in the area.

He was recently named a MaineHealth Corporator, one of over 500 community leaders from around the region who provide the community oversight for the not-for-profit MaineHealth organization. Petrovek serves in the same capacity for Gorham Savings Bank.

Petrovek served as President of 211 Maine, Inc. from 2003 through 2007 and is also on the Boards of the Greater Portland Community Chamber, Portland's Downtown District and the Cumberland Club. He also serves on the Opportunity Farm's Leadership Council, and the Children's Museum of Maine Advisory Council. Petrovek chaired the Boy Scout Pine Tree Council's Annual Campaign in 2007, and will serve as Honorary Chair of the Children's Museum of Maine's 2008 Annual Campaign. In 2006, Petrovek and his wife, Sara co-chaired the American Heart Association’s Southern Maine Heart Walk helping to raise over $250,000.

In July of 2003, Petrovek formed the Portland Pirates Foundation and serves as the President. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Maine public charity representing the philanthropic arm of Portland Pirates LLC. Its mission is to enrich and impact the greater Portland region through educational, sports-based, community and fundraising activities and programs.

Petrovek joined USA Hockey's national staff in June 1993 as Assistant Executive Director before being promoted to the positions of Deputy Executive Director of USA Hockey, Inc., and Executive Director of The USA Hockey Foundation in 1998.

In 1999, Petrovek spearheaded the creation of Serving The American Rinks (STAR^TM), a 501(c)(6) national facilities association established in conjunction with the United States Figure Skating Association. STAR^TM designs and implements programs to foster the development, growth and success of ice skating rinks and inline facilities throughout the country.

In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Petrovek served as Team Leader for the United States team that captured the championship of the World Cup of Hockey in 1996. He was also Team Leader for the 1997 U.S. National Team and the 1998 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team.

Prior to joining USA Hockey, Petrovek served as Vice President of Marketing for the NHL's New Jersey Devils from 1989-93. From 1987-89, Petrovek was Executive Director of the American Hockey League's Utica Devils, New Jersey's top minor league affiliate at the time. He began his professional career as Assistant Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1978, a post he held through 1982.

Petrovek received both his bachelor's (1977) and master's degrees (1980) from Harvard University, where he earned All-America honors as a goaltender in 1975 and was twice named to the All-Ivy League Team (1974-75, 1976-77). In October 1998, he was inducted into the Harvard University Athletic Hall of Fame. Petrovek, who played youth hockey in the greater Boston area, was one of four goaltenders invited to the final U.S. Olympic Team Trials Camp in 1976. He was drafted by both the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association in 1975.

Petrovek and his wife, Sara, are the proud parents of two daughters and one son - Ginny, Ana and Steven - and reside in Yarmouth.