Stephen Starks

Stephen Starks serves as Vice President, Promoter and Media Partner Relations for INDYCAR, LLC. As such, Stephen manages the development of the IndyCar Series race schedule, including the global identification of new race opportunities, and serves as the lead negotiator of INDYCAR’s agreements with race event operators. Stephen also manages INDYCAR’s media partner relationships, including the negotiation of the company’s domestic and international media agreements and overseeing event telecast scheduling.

Prior to being promoted to VP for INDYCAR, Stephen spent two years as Deputy General Counsel for Hulman & Company, the parent company to INDYCAR, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IMS Productions, and Clabber Girl. As Deputy GC, Stephen worked on a variety of complex legal issues across the Hulman companies and drafted and negotiated agreements, including those related to large motorsports events and concerts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, television production agreements for IMS Productions, and food manufacturing agreements related to Clabber Girl.

Prior to joining Hulman & Company, Stephen spent over two years as an associate at the Indianapolis law firm, Kroger, Gardis and Regas, LLP, where he concentrated in the areas of Sports & Entertainment and Arbitration and represented professional sports leagues, teams, and athletes. Before that, he spent almost four years as the Legal Affairs Director for the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) where he was involved in the resolution of more than 100 sports doping cases and took part in at least 20 contested arbitration hearings before the American Arbitration Association and Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Immediately following law school, Stephen served as a law clerk for former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Theodore Boehm.

Stephen received his law degree from the Valparaiso University School of Law in 2006 and his undergraduate degree from Drexel University in 2001. While an undergraduate, he was a four-year member of the school’s NCAA Division I basketball team. He was the America East Conference scoring leader and a unanimous first team all conference selection in 2001.

Stephen and his wife, Naima, have two children and reside in Carmel, Indiana.