Ed Policy, an executive with significant sports experience, is in his first year as the Green Bay Packers' Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, a position to which he was elected June 24, 2024, and formally assumed July 25, 2025.
Entering his 14th year overall with the organization, Policy had served the past seven years as chief operating officer and general counsel after serving his initial six years as vice president and general counsel.
Policy, who started with the Packers on Aug. 1, 2012, has an extensive background that includes work in professional football with the Arena Football League and the NFL, and broad legal experience with litigation, sports labor relations, sports facility construction and commercial real estate.
"I am incredibly honored, excited and grateful to the search committee, the Board, the shareholders and the entire organization for this treasured and one-of-a-kind opportunity," Policy said upon being elected. "This is the absolute best job in sports. We are the stewards of the most iconic and unique organization in all of professional sports. I am excited to continue to work with so many talented teammates who have ensured the Packers' consistent success on and off the field. We are the people's team, and I love being a part of it.
"We will continue our relentless focus on building a winning culture that transcends the playing field. The Lombardi Trophy will always be our North Star, and ensuring a positive impact on our community will continue to be paramount in our decision-making. We have the greatest fans in sports and will never take their commitment to the Packers for granted."
Prior to assuming the role of President and CEO, Policy directed the organization's legal affairs and represented the Packers at the NFL level on legal and other matters. Additionally at the league level, Policy currently serves on the NFL audit committee and the fan engagement and major events committee.
Among Policy's Packers responsibilities has been leading the organization's communications, marketing and fan engagement, human resources, sales and business development, security, and development and hospitality departments.
He also led the club's endeavors to develop Titletown, a more than 50-acre mixed-use real estate development immediately west of Lambeau Field. Titletown is maximizing its unique location to attract visitors, spur regional economic growth, offer amenities to residents and complement the greater Green Bay area's draw as an excellent location to live, work, play, create and visit on a year-round basis.
A chief component of the development spearheaded by Policy is TitletownTech, a joint venture with Microsoft that consists of a venture capital fund, an innovation lab and a new-venture studio. Policy and TitletownTech's managing partner, Craig Dickman, worked together to develop the foundational framework for the initiative which included the shared belief that the strength of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is as crucial to success as the innovation and leadership of individual founders. With that base, they aimed to create an unparalleled platform bridging the gap between capital and expertise, nurturing and inspiring the next wave of entrepreneurs, ensuring the community's ongoing evolution.
Opening in 2019, TitletownTech unveiled a cutting-edge innovation center designed to nurture creativity and provide fertile ground for ideas to flourish. With more than 30 portfolio companies, 31 investors, and $95 million in assets under management, TitletownTech is investing in early-stage companies that are addressing pivotal challenges in the region's core industries.
Elsewhere in Titletown, the residential offerings have been successful with all of the 35 townhomes sold and the apartments regularly at 100% occupancy. The office building, U.S. Venture Center, has provided a dynamic new work center for some of the area's flagship organizations. A variety of dining options and more than 100 programs and large events throughout the year offer a multitude of amenities and activities for residents and visitors alike, drawing engagement of hundreds of thousands of people annually.
Prior to joining the Packers, Policy's professional sports experience included nine years (2001-09) with the Arena Football League, including a period (2008-09) in which he served as commissioner, president and CEO. He also served as deputy commissioner and president (2006-08), chief operating officer (2004-06) and executive vice president-strategic league development and legal affairs (2001-04). During his tenure with the league, he oversaw all business and football operations of the AFL, including strategic development, legal affairs, sales, finance, marketing, broadcasting, digital media, football operations, labor relations, events and human resources.
Policy also served as an executive consultant with the NFL (2009-10), a position in which he advised and assisted NFL senior management in strategic and development matters and also worked with senior executives on special projects within various business areas.
Before joining the Packers, the 54-year-old Policy served as president of a fully funded startup company developing a sports media and entertainment property. He had served in that role since September 2010.
Earlier in his professional career, Policy practiced law at Thompson Hine LLP in Cleveland (1999-2001), where his work included litigation, sports labor relations, sports facility construction and commercial real estate, and also at Heller Ehrman in San Francisco (1994-99). He is a member of the state bars of California and Ohio, and a member of the Sports Lawyers Association. He is a three-time recipient of the SportsBusiness Journal's Forty Under 40 award in recognition of his achievements in sports business, and a member of the Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame.
The NFL also was prominent in Policy's early years, as his father, Carmen Policy, served in executive roles with the San Francisco 49ers (1981-1997, including 1991-97 as president and CEO), and the Cleveland Browns (1998-2004, president and CEO, minority owner). Ed certainly relishes the memories of the success and Super Bowl wins of San Francisco, but the best lessons came from the less-glamorous situations his father faced leading both the 49ers and Browns.
"The struggles that inevitably come with running an NFL team were valuable lessons," Policy said. "Watching the organization and my dad go through some of those moments, whether it was the transition from a successful coach to a new coach, or the same at the quarterback position, or bringing a franchise back to Cleveland after an absence, those were very challenging moments.
"I am fortunate to have had those experiences early in my career that helped me develop foundational and leadership skills which prepared me well to lead the NFL's most iconic team."
A Midwest native, Policy was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a bachelor's degree with honors in accounting with an emphasis in finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 and a law degree from Stanford University in 1996. In the Green Bay community, he serves or has served on the boards of directors of the Brown County United Way, the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Green Bay YMCA, as well as on the community leadership council of Achieve Brown County.
He and his wife, Christy, have two sons, Carmen, 17, and Luke, 14.
