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TIM MEAD FRONT OFFICE

Vice President,
Communications

Tim Mead begins his 40th season in the Angels organization and 22nd as
Vice President of Communications. He oversees media relations, publicity
and broadcasting for the Club.
Before his current appointment, Mead spent four seasons as assistant
general manager (1994-97) under former GM Bill Bavasi.
Mead began his career with the Angels as an intern in the Public
Relations Department in 1980. He was appointed director of media relations in 1985 and later named
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assistant vice president of media relations in 1991. During his tenure in media relations, Mead and
his staff have been responsible for the handling of media during eight of the Angels’ nine postseason
appearances, the 1989 and 2010 All-Star Games at Angel Stadium and the Halos memorable World
Series run in 2002.
Mead was the recipient of the 2000 Robert O. Fishel Award for PR excellence, recognizing the
“active non-uniformed representative of Major League Baseball whose ethics, character, dedication,
service, professionalism and humanitarian efforts best represent the standards propounded by
Robert O. Fishel.” In 2018, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Orange County Public
Relations Society of America (OCPRSA). He was honored in May 2005 with the first Distinguished
Alumnus Award for Athletics by his alma mater Cal Poly Pomona. Mead was also honored in 2012 by
the American Diabetes Association and the Orange County Father’s Day Council as one of four Father
of the Year recipients. The award, given annually since 1999, is bestowed to 100 men from across
the nation who “portray and epitomize family, citizenship, charity, civility and responsibility in their
everyday lives.”
In April 2002, Mead took part in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC) designed by the
Department of Defense. He was one of 60 civilians chosen by the Pentagon to attend the conference,
traveling to the Pentagon, Norfolk Naval Air Station in VA, Sheppard Air Force Base, Sheppard, Texas,
Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, NC and Ofutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska to see the United
States Strategic Command Center. The trip is designed to present a clearer picture and understanding
of the military to civic and community leaders across the country.
The Athens, Greece native is a 1980 graduate of Cal Poly Pomona with a BS in communications.
He is a member of the board of directors for the Ronald McDonald House (Orange, CA) and assists
other charitable groups and programs such as Amigos de los Niños, Sunburst Youth Academy and
Gang Reduction Intervention Program (GRIP) in Orange County. Mead also serves on the advisory
committee for the sports management program at Long Beach State. He and wife Carole have one
son, Brandon, and became grandparents in the fall of 2018.

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