Kelsey Philpott is the Senior Vice President and Group Director of Marketing for Major League Baseball. Reporting directly to MLB’s CMO, Philpott is responsible for leading the day-to-day marketing strategy and operations while accelerating commercial opportunities across the league. Overseeing Global Brand, Culture Marketing, Design and Performance Media, Philpott brings nearly 20 years’ experience leading cross-functional departments in delivering brand strategy, integrated campaigns, multi-platform content, consumer experiences, community engagement, and sponsorship activations to drive revenue and audience growth.
Prior to joining MLB, Philpott led the marketing and creative departments of Canucks Sports & Entertainment, earning Sports Business Journal’s prestigious Forty Under 40 recognition in 2025. In Vancouver, he helped drive record audience, ticketing, sponsorship, and retail growth across the company’s NHL-AHL-NLL portfolio. Before his time with the Canucks, Philpott was Head of Marketing for the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden where he helped rebuild the brand strategy and introduced the critically-acclaimed campaign, No Quit in New York.
Philpott began his career at global sponsorship and experiential agency, GMR Marketing, where he was eventually promoted to Vice President of Sponsorship Consulting to lead strategy for the agency’s North American portfolio. At GMR, he worked across some of the world’s biggest sports properties (NFL, NHL, NBA) and corporate sponsors (A-B InBev, adidas, Allstate, Capital One, Danone, JP Morgan Chase). Philpott earned his MBA at the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center and now resides in New York City.