BALTIMORE — Ravens president Dick Cass will retire after 18 years with the team and will be succeeded by former Washington Wizards and Cleveland Browns executive Sashi Brown.
Cass, 76, has served as the right-hand man to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, supervising every non-football aspect of the organization while also participating in high-level football meetings. He has served as the team’s point person on everything from stadium improvements to relationships with elected officials to COVID-19 response.
Hiring Cass, a former Washington attorney, was Bisciotti’s first major move after he purchased a majority share of the Ravens from Art Modell in 2004.
Brown, 45, has served as president of Monumental Sports, which includes the Wizards, the Washington Mystics and other entities, since 2019. The Harvard-educated attorney previously served as executive vice president of football operations for the Browns. He was the team’s top football decision maker in 2016 and most of 2017, a span in which the Browns won just one game. He also served as a senior vice president and general counsel for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Brown’s transition becomes official April 1.
After graduating from law school in 2002, he took his first job at the Washington firm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where Cass was a partner and senior manager. Cass gave him a recommendation for his first NFL job.
