Greg Beadles
This season, Greg Beadles will be entering his 15th year with the Falcons organization.
Beadles holds many responsibilities in addition to overseeing all financial operations of the club, including business negotiations, strategic planning and development for the organization. He serves as one of the team’s primary liaisons with the stadium authority and oversaw the Georgia Dome renovation projects the team recently completed. He also serves as President of Atlanta Falcons Physical Therapy Centers, which he helped to launch in 2007.
Beadles began his career in the NFL with the Falcons in 1995 with a 10-week internship in the finance department. He later served as Controller of the Falcon Inn & Conference Center until 1998. He then held the position of Senior Accountant with the club until being promoted to Director of Finance for the 2000–2001 seasons. Owner & CEO Arthur Blank promoted Beadles to Vice President — Finance shortly after purchasing the Falcons in 2002 and he added the CFO title after the 2003 season.
Beadles has enjoyed being involved in a number of other areas within the organization on game days over the years as a member of the stats crew, video department assistant, and tracking player participation.
The son of a coach, Greg grew up drawing Xs and Os, traveling on road trips and making recruiting visits with his father, who has been a head coach in the college basketball ranks for nearly 40 years. Beadles played a number of sports in his youth, including a freshman year of small college basketball before transferring to Louisiana State University to focus on a career in business.
Beadles earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from LSU in 1991 and a Masters of Science degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State University in 1995.
The 40-year-old holds a CPA license from the state of Georgia. His experience in the business world began with a public accounting firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana followed by work as an international staff accountant with Offshore Pipelines, Inc. in
Houston, Texas.
Beadles’ financial background also includes teaching a sports finance course for the graduate school at Georgia State University from 1995-96. He remains a regular guest lecturer at a number of local universities. He serves as a board member for the Greater Hall County Chamber of Commerce, Wellspring Camp, and is Co-Founder and Chairman of Dominion Classical Christian Academy in Lawrenceville, GA.
Greg and his wife, Jill, reside with their four children, Ella, Grant, Evie and Hudson in Dacula, Georgia.