The earliest memories of Marnie Starkman’s life are tied to baseball.
Currently, she’s the executive vice president of marketing and business operations for the Blue Jays, her 12th year of working for the team. She oversees more than 60 people, sharing a business leadership role with Anuk Karunaratne, and she has the marketing, communications, fan experience, concessions, gameday operations and Florida operations departments all falling under her purview.
But she can remember more than three decades ago when her father, Howie, was working out of a trailer adjacent to the ballpark as director of public relations for Toronto, and her mother placing her brother in a playpen in the trailer before they set out to watch a game.