Al Jaffe
Al Jaffe was ESPN's vice-president of talent (official title: Vice-president of Talent Negotiation and Production Recruitment), from 1996 until his retirement in January 2015. He joined ESPN in 1987. He was also one of the judges on all three seasons of the network's reality series Dream Job.
A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts he is a 1968 graduate of Emerson College, where he majored in Mass Communications and where he later served as a member of the school’s Board of Trustees from 2007 through 2024. Jaffe previously served as a news producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston, and as News Director at KNTV-TV San Jose, California, and KOVR-TV in Sacramento.
In 2019, Jaffe was voted President of the Ivoryton (CT) Playhouse Board of Trustees.