Portland Fire

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Portland Fire

Market opportunity

Portland Fire is building its travel program from scratch

The expansion franchise has now played a full schedule of road fixtures across the league footprint, with 2027 planning underway.

$2.4M

Possible yearly travel

3/5

Travel priority

—

Events each year

None

PIVOT connection

What sales should do next

Call before the team finishes its 2027 travel plan this winter.

Portland Fire is building its travel program from scratch
Image: WNBA

Time to sell

Early

2027 season planning

Way in

New relationship

A clear reason for a first call

Why this can become business

A new team has to choose every supplier for the first time. There may not be a long-term travel partner yet.

New team travel programme · Portland, OR

Read public source

Turn the opening into a conversation

The people who can move this forward.

2 people found on public pages

VE

Vanja Černivec

General Manager

Call first

Standing up a first full season — every travel decision is still open.

GO

Gabriela Olivares

Director of Basketball Operations

Call second

The role that will own charters, hotels and ground all season.

FO

Front office

Name not published — look them up below

Good backup

New franchise with a published general inbox — a real route in.

Best way in

No PIVOT connection. New franchise — no incumbent vendor yet.

How to reach out

Email now, while the season plan is still being written.

Ready-to-send email

Subject: First-season travel plan

A first full season means building the travel plan from nothing — charters, hotels, ground, and the standards that follow the team for years. We do this for teams in their first season. I can share a first-season travel checklist so you can see what we cover.

If you call

Hi — congratulations on the first season. I am calling about how you are planning team travel. Has that been decided yet?

If there is no reply

Send the checklist. New teams keep useful documents.

Every name comes from the organization's own public pages