In a previous life, Nets and BSE Global CEO John Abbamondi served nine years as a U.S. Navy weapons officer, flying the EA-6B carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft. He’s also two-time recipient of the Navy Air Medal with 40 combat missions over Iraq.
On September 11, 2001, while stationed in New York, he was given an assignment both dreadful and and honored: informing next-of-kin that their loved one had been killed earlier that day in Al Qaeda’s attack on the Pentagon.
Not long after, Abbamondi began his career in sports management, having worked in baseball and basketball, both as an assistant GM and CEO.