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Fran Weld, MBA ’11: If Your Dream Job Doesn’t Exist, Create It

The senior vice president of strategy and development for the SF Giants carved her own niche in the competitive world of pro sports management.

February 04, 2019

| by Beth Rimbey

Can you build a career at the intersection of sports and real estate? Fran Weld did — and today she is overseeing a mixed-use development across from the SF Giants’ ballpark that will be part of San Francisco for generations to come.

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