Four years ago, we wrote this story on new Fiesta Bowl Executive Director and CEO, Erik Moses, and began with this sentence that still remains true.
“Erik Moses didn’t set out to be a trailblazer, but his career path has made him exactly that.”
From his work as the CEO of the DC Sports & Entertainment Commission, where he helped launch and run both the Military Bowl and the HBCU-focused AT&T Nation’s Football Classic, and his role as team president of the XFL’s DC Defenders to becoming the president of Nashville Superspeedway, making him the first Black president ever of a NASCAR track, and his current role as Executive Director and CEO of the Fiesta Bowl, Moses has blazed trails and opened doors during his highly successful career.
This week, he did it again.
On Monday, Moses added a new title to his already impressive resume as he was named an independent director of the USA Fencing Board of Directors.
The position, which begins on September 1st, 2026, is a special one as independent directors, according to the release, “provide outside expertise, financial oversight and a perspective unclouded by the internal politics that any membership organization can generate. They ask the questions nobody inside the sport thinks to ask.”
With his background as an attorney, leader, creator, business development executive, and CEO, Moses is exactly the type of independent director the organization needs.
And the fact that his sons used to fence when they were younger makes him an even stronger candidate.
“I’m equally honored and excited to join the USA Fencing Board of Directors at this critical time, to help propel the sport from the youth level through Olympic medals and maximize the spotlight we have leading into, during and following the Olympic Games in Los Angeles,” said Moses. “Fencing combines athleticism, strategy and elegance, while harnessing aggression to succeed. Having seen the personal development my sons experienced during their time in the sport, I want to help make fencing more visible and accessible for young people who might not otherwise be introduced to the sport.”
His background, which also includes sitting on the the boards of the McLendon Foundation, Teach for America Phoenix, Coca-Cola Bowl Season, Experience Scottsdale, Cumberland University and the DC Jazz Festival, made him a perfect candidate, according to Phil Andrews, CEO of USA Fencing.
“Erik Moses has built things that didn’t exist and rebuilt things everyone had written off,” Andrews says. “That’s a useful instinct for a sport with as much untapped potential as ours. Add his legal background, his governance experience and the fact that he’s watched his own sons compete on the strip, and you have exactly the kind of independent voice this Board needs.”
Congrats Erik!
