Don Garber
Director

Don Garber has spent his entire career in the sports industry, working in a variety of capacities in marketing, television and League administration. In 1999, he was named Commissioner of Major League Soccer after spending 16 years with the National Football League.

Prior to becoming Commissioner of MLS, Garber spent 16 years with the National Football League, finishing his tenure as the senior vice president/managing director of NFL International, where he was responsible for managing all of the NFL's business outside the United States. Garber began his career at NFL Properties in 1984 and became the League's director of marketing in 1988. In 1992, he was appointed the NFL's senior vice president of business development and was responsible for a variety of television, special event and marketing activities.

Garber serves on the Board of Directors for the United States Soccer Federation, The United States Soccer Foundation, and the FC Harlem Youth Soccer Club as well as on the Board of the Hope and Heroes Foundation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He is on the Board of Advisors for New York University's Tisch School for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management and the University of Central Florida, DeVos Sports Business Management Program and the World Congress of Sports.

He lives in New Jersey with his wife, their two children and two dogs.