Fiesta Bowl

Brian Bednar currently works at SRP, Salt River Project, as a Senior Strategic Account Manager for the Government Sector of Key Customers. He serves as the customer’s single point of contact in managing SRP’s relationship with several of its largest & sensitive customers, such as: City of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, Valley Metro, of Arizona, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, all of the Native American communities, and many more.
 
Before joining SRP, Brian was a District Sales Manager for Schlumberger and prior to that worked for General Motors as a Regional Sales Manager in the Dallas area. 
 
Brian is originally from Kansas where he and his family grew up on a 1,000+ acre ranch, which his family still owns. He attended and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

First serving as a volunteer with the Fiesta Bowl in 1996, Brian has been a member of the Fiesta Bowl Yellow Jacket Committee since 2000 and joined the Board of Directors in 2020. Over the years, he has been involved with nearly every facet of the organization and served as chair for numerous events, including the Desert Financial Fiesta Bowl Parade, Fiesta Bowl game operations, Aerospace Challenge and others. One of the top fundraisers on the Yellow Jacket Committee, Bednar was also the Sales Coach of the Year in 2015 and earned the Frank Snell Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016-17.

Brian also serves on several boards and committees in the community, including Chair of the East Valley Aviation & Aerospace Alliance for the East Valley Partnership, a board member of SCOTT, (Scottsdale Coalition of Today & Tomorrow), and recently joined the Board of Directors of his alma mater, the Kansas State University Foundation Board.