The Vintage Racing League
Management Team
The Vintage Racing League team are proven event management and promotion professionals. We have successfully delivered customer acquisition and event management programs for numerous Global 1000 companies to include: AT&T, Coca Cola, Coors, Anheuser Busch, American Express, Sony, Phillips, Yamaha, Sports Illustrated, Nike, Ford, Telmex, Gigante, Converse, Four Seasons, FedEx, Firestone, Toyota & Honda.
Team members include:
Stephen Page,
Vintage Racing League Co-Founder
Stephen has extensive Vintage racing experience. He owns and drives three vintage open wheel Formula cars: a 1976 FF Crossle; a 1980 March Formula Atlantic; and a 1977 Formula One Shadow DN8.
Stephen's racing experiences with CVAR (the Southwest's leading Vintage Racing Club) and with international events to include Formula One, IRL, ChampCar, Goodwood and the La Carerra Panamericana were pivotal in framing the business plan for the Vintage Racing League. At CVAR, he was the 2003 FF2, 2004 & 2005 Open Wheel Enduro and 2006 Formula Atlantic Champion.
Prior to co-founding the Vintage Racing League, Stephen built three successful companies as Founder and CEO of Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd; ejobs, Inc and bpmx LLC.
At Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd., a senior level executive search firm with offices in Dallas, New York, Washington and London, Stephen built Leadership teams for many of the world's largest consulting, legal and technology companies.
ejobs, Inc., grew to 130 employees and achieved $20+ million in revenue outsourcing recruiting functions for large companies.
At bpmx, Stephen and a senior team worked with large companies to design and implement value creation strategies to commercialize internally developed operating platforms.
Prior to Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd., Stephen re-engineered the back office for two large American Banks and spent four plus years in Europe, supporting the American Armed forces with top secret technology services.
Stephen was born in London and attended London University as part of British Telecom's Executive Management program. He received degrees in Mathematics and Telecommunications and is a graduate of Harvard's Executive Management program - Leadership in Professional Services. Stephen is a Board Member of www.riverlogic.com, a leading Business Intelligence company.
Joe Heitzler,
Vintage Racing League Co-Founder
Joseph F. Heitzler has more than 35 years experience in television and marketing, event management, and sponsor acquisition. Mr. Heitzler is the Co-Founder of The Vintage Racing League, the world’s largest online community for vintage car enthusiasts.
Heitzler is Founder and President of Entertainment Management Group (EMG), headquartered in Los Angeles and Mexico City. EMG is a multinational corporation specializing in large event management for sports and entertainment.
Prior to EMG, Heitzler directed Grand Sports &Entertainment Inc., a Mexican corporation responsible for all operations, promotions and administration of two Mexican race track facilities and 2 annual Champ Car series races and one NASCAR race.
The four races organized under Joe's leadership attracted over 1.2 million guest. The 2002 Mexico City CART race attracted over 430,000 guest in four days making it the largest attended open wheel race in the Americas .
In addition, Heitzler was Chairman & CEO of CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) (NYSE, MPH). As CEO of CART, he managed 22 live auto races in eight countries annually.
Heitzler boasts tremendous achievements in the sports and entertainment industries including 14 years as Chairman, CEO and Owner of VTE Mobile Television Productions. VTE provided mobile production facilities for ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX as well as over 26 regional sports cable channels and was sold after revenues grew to more than $138 million. The company provided facilities for over 14,000 events on an annual bases.
Heitzler also served as Founder/CEO of Sports Communications, Inc. which represented 17 of the 33 official sponsors for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was also President/CEO of Forum Sports Entertainment, Inc. which led event management operations for the L.A. Kings and L.A. Lakers.
Heitzler also was a senior executive at CBS Sports with extensive programming emphasis on automobile racing and special sports programming. Heitzler is well recognized among the elite within the world of sports and entertainment events.
Heitzler also found National Business Bank of Torrance which was merged with Placier Sierra National Bank and trades on the NYSE. Heitzler serves as Chairman and is a member of the audit, loan and compensation committee’s.
Deborah Schneider, SVP Legal
Deborah was Chief Legal Officer for ChampCar. At Champ, she negotiated and contracted all licensing, merchandising and sponsor promotion agreements.
Kika Garcia-Concheso, SVP Public Relations
Kika is a proven Public Relations expert with extensive Motorsports industry experience.
As VP of Public Relations for ChampCar, she led the Public Relations efforts that led to two of the best attended motor racing sporting events in history: 400,000+ ChampCar in Mexico City and 200,000+ in Monterrey.
Scott Murray, Vintage Racing League Advisory Board Director
For 30 years, Scott was an Award winning television sports anchor and broadcast journalist for NBC in Dallas/Ft. Worth and Washington, D.C. In his capacity as a Top 10 Market Sports Anchor, Scott covered the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen, Montreal and Monte Carlo He remains an avid automotive race car enthusiast and served as host of the award-winning weekly television program, Raceweek, for close to a decade.
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