Scott Guglielmino

Senior Vice President, Programming & Global X

Scott Guglielmino

Scott Guglielmino serves as senior vice president, programming and Global X, at ESPN, responsible for the company’s multiplatform domestic soccer (FIFA, UEFA, USSF, MLS) strategy and all aspects of the Global X (X Games, Winter X Games, etc.) franchise.  Guglielmino, who joined ESPN in 1993 and has advanced in the programming department, was promoted to senior vice president in June 2010. 

Guglielmino originally started at ESPN as a freelance statistics coordinator for College GameDay in 1993. He was hired as a full-time screener in November 1993. Since then, he has worked on a variety of major sports properties and initiatives and has been promoted to planner, senior planner, director and to vice president in 2004. 

Since 1998, Guglielmino has played a significant role in ESPN’s soccer coverage. He was a major contributor in the decision to televise the highly successful FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999, and he will continue to oversee network plans for the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments, as ESPN have maintained rights for these properties through 2014.  He oversaw the largest and most comprehensive commitment of resources to one sporting event in ESPN’s history – the highly successful 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. 

Guglielmino directed the return of NASCAR to ESPN and ABC in 2007 across ESPN’s multimedia assets, including television, Internet, radio, print, broadband and wireless. His areas of responsibility included daily interaction with all entities: event and studio production, customer marketing and sales, affiliate sales and marketing, consumer marketing, research, legal, communications and finance. 

Guglielmino played a key role in ESPN’s 2005 acquisition of the Monday Night Football franchise and coordinated the company’s negotiation preparation for both ESPN and ABC Sports. While managing the NFL relationship, Guglielmino directed ESPN’s Hurricane Relief Telethon efforts in fall 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, coordinating network and cable affiliates across the country and ultimately raising $5 million for victims of the natural disaster in the Gulf Coast region. 

Guglielmino also has overseen brand extension efforts for ESPN's Winter and Summer X Games, which have enabled ESPN to establish the leading global action sports brand. He has been involved in ESPN Content Development, formerly ESPN Original Entertainment, since its infancy, including the development and launch of Two Minute Drill. He was the planner of record for the highly acclaimed SportsCentury series, coordinating early development of the overall project. 

Guglielmino was graduated in 1992 from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor’s degree in communications science. A native and resident of Cheshire, Conn., Guglielmino continues to lend his expertise to the Parks & Recreation department in his hometown, where he helped create a local skate park.

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