Former NBA Players Association executive director Tamika Tremaglio has landed with consulting firm Secretariat.
Tremaglio, who left the union job in 2023, will lead global sports consultancy for Secretariat, which advises corporations, law firms and other institutions on legal, risk and regulatory matters.
After working as an advisor to the union since 2012, Tremaglio succeeded Michele Roberts after her retirement in January 2022. Although Tremaglio was on the job for less than two years, she successfully led the union’s collective bargaining negotiations with the league as the two sides hammered out a seven-year CBA in the spring of 2023, which runs through the 2029-30 NBA season.
While the CBA introduced the second apron for spending above the salary cap—leading to the breakups of contending teams—a key win for the union was the ability to make passive investments on behalf of the players in approved private equity firms investing in NBA teams.
Under Tremaglio, the players earned the ability to invest in WNBA teams and become co-investors with NBA team owners in businesses outside of the league. Tremaglio also assisted the WNBPA in negotiating the collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA in 2019, which was enacted in 2020. The WNBPA opted out of the CBA last fall and is negotiating a new agreement set to begin next year.
Former Finals MVP Andre Iguodala has been leading the NBA players’ union as acting executive director. The union has yet to select a permanent executive director.
Though she left in early November 2023, Tremaglio was the highest-paid union employee in 2024. According to the union’s annual report filed with the U.S. Department of Labor covering the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Tremaglio was paid $3.4 million in salary and received $81,989 in “disbursements for official business.”
Prior to taking the lead of the NBPA, Tremaglio worked as managing principal for Deloitte in the Washington, D.C., region.