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With responsibilities that include serving as the team's official spokesman, overseeing all internal and external communications and being the primary liaison between the club and national and local media, Senior Vice President of Communications and Broadcasting Greg Bensel enters his 24th season with the Saints. In addition to overseeing all communications efforts for the Saints, Bensel serves in the same role for the Pelicans NBA franchise and manages all communications efforts and provides strategic counsel for Gayle Benson's community giving and business enterprises, including her local automotive dealerships, numerous real estate holdings, Benson Farm, GMB Racing and Benson Capital Partners.

Bensel also oversees and manages GMB Racing – the horse racing operation for Benson, a multi-million dollar horse business which started in 2014. Three of GMB Racing's horses – Tom's Ready, Mo Tom and Lone Sailor, have competed in the Kentucky Derby as well as numerous Breeders Cups. In addition, Bensel works with the staff at Benson Farm at Greenwood Lodge in Paris, Ky. managing and planning breedings for the current Benson Farm broodmare band.

Bensel was promoted to vice president in 2006 after serving for nine seasons as director of media & public relations. In addition to supervising the staffs for both the Saints and Pelicans, his duties also include planning the long-range public relations initiatives for both clubs as well as all of Gayle Benson's enterprises.

Bensel has also worked on the NFL public relations staffs for three Super Bowls.

Prior to joining the Saints, Bensel was director of media relations for the Super Bowl XXXI Host Committee and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. He has also served on the media committee for the NCAA Men's Final Four, the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament and the Sugar Bowl. He is active in the New Orleans community serving on numerous boards, including WYES-TV, a PBS station as well as the Bayou District Foundation.

A New Orleans native who graduated from Jesuit High School and Tulane University, Bensel started his professional sports career as a media relations administrator for the PGA of America in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where he served on the public relations staffs for the 1991 PGA Championship, the 1991 Senior PGA Championship and the 1991 Ryder Cup.