Syracuse has hired Anthony Di Fino to serve as an associate athletics director for business development, SU Athletics announced in a press release Wednesday.

Di Fino will have a role in decisions relating to marketing, fundraising, ticketing, sponsorship and communications initiatives. He has worked in the athletic departments at Army, Columbia and Fordham as well as with IMG Learfield Ticket Solutions at Akron and Penn State. He directed portions of ticketing, sales and marketing efforts for 13 IMG Learfield properties since becoming the Northeast Regional Manager in August 2014.

While at Akron, new revenue increased by 72 percent under Di Fino’s sales team. At Penn State, Di Fino helped increase group sales by more than 200 percent, according to the release.

Di Fino graduated from Fordham in 2006 and earned his master’s degree from Columbia in 2009.

He joins an athletic department that has seen a significant amount of turnover since Mark Coyle was hired as athletic director last summer.