Peter Roby
Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon has named Peter Roby ’79 interim athletics director beginning Feb. 16, 2021. Roby will serve in the position through June 2022.
He was co-captain of Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team as a senior and began his coaching career with a season spent as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Dartmouth.
Roby served from 2007-2010 as an at-large representative on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, and has been a secretary of his class and a longtime Dartmouth College Fund volunteer.
“Peter Roby is a highly respected leader in intercollegiate athletics. We look forward to welcoming him back to Dartmouth,” says Hanlon.
Roby led athletics at Division I Northeastern for more than 10 years, through 2017, after spending five years as director of the university’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society, which seeks to create social change using the influence and appeal of sports. He is a former member of the NCAA D-I Men’s Basketball Committee, which selects and seeds the annual NCAA tournament field, and has worked as a strategic consultant to the NCAA, including in its leadership development programs.
“I’m honored and humbled to be asked to serve the college and will do all I can to bring our athletics community together,” says Roby.
He was the men’s basketball coach at Harvard for six seasons, after three years as an assistant coach. In addition to his assistant coaching stint at Dartmouth, Roby was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Stanford and at the U.S. Military Academy.
Roby is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, created in 1989 by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which works to develop and lead change that prioritizes the education, health, safety, and success of student-athletes. He is also an inaugural member of the Black AD Alliance, formed by Division I athletics directors in July 2020 out of the national outcry for social justice reform in America, and serves on the Allies Subcommittee within the alliance.
In addition to his work in athletics, Roby spent several years in marketing at Reebok, including three years as the athletic outfitter’s vice president of U.S. marketing. A government major at Dartmouth, Roby has a master’s degree in leadership from Northeastern.
Quashan Lockett
Rooted in purpose and driven by impact, Quashan is focused on shaping the industry through a disruptive, inclusive, and people-centered approach. With a foundation in organizational psychology, he builds, advises, and invests in mission-driven brands and ventures at the intersection of sport, culture, community, and impact. In 2020, he was honored as one of the top leaders in sport under 40 by Leaders Sports Awards, recognizing his transformative impact on the industry. As a dynamic business leader, Quashan has over 20 years of experience scaling high-growth companies and leading strategic transformations across sports, media, entertainment and hospitality industries. He brings a unique combination of strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centered leadership, with a proven track record of success in both Chief Operating Officer and Chief People Officer roles – building organizational culture, systems, capabilities, and infrastructure to advance strategic alignment, drive scalable growth, and create lasting impact.
Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Pac-12 Conference, as a member of the senior leadership team and executive committee Quashan oversees all people, organizational, financial, and administrative operations across the Conference and its related entities and ultimately serves and supports the Pac-12’s staff, student-athletes, and member universities. He originally joined the Pac-12 in 2022 as their first-ever Chief People and Inclusion Officer, driving people and culture strategy and providing strategic direction and oversight for all human resources, talent management, diversity, equity and inclusion, organizational development, change management, and internal communications activities. He is also the Founder of Color of Sports, a purpose-driven change agency helping improve organizational performance and capabilities for brands, ventures, and companies across sports, media, and entertainment.
Throughout his career Quashan has built a reputation for being a thoughtful and impactful leader who thrives in fast-paced, complex, multi-stakeholder organizations. Before the Pac-12, Quashan held senior leadership roles at On Location and Legends, delivering innovative people and organizational strategies for iconic brands and rights holders in sports, media, entertainment, music and fashion including the NFL, NBA, NCAA, MLB, International Olympic Committee, New York Fashion Week, Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees, University of Notre Dame, Real Madrid CF, FC Barcelona, Live Nation and numerous music artists, tours, and festivals.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Quashan currently resides in Dallas, TX with his wife Brandi, their son, and their two daughters. Quashan earned a bachelor’s degree in labor and employment relations from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in organizational psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is certified as a senior human resources professional by both the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and HR Certification Institute (HRCI).
