Executive Vice President/General Manager Mickey Loomis – responsible for the club’s entire football operations, a veteran of over 25 years in the NFL and honored with the highest awards in the profession during his tenure – enters his seventh season in his current position and ninth with the Saints.

Loomis was promoted to General Manager in 2002 and earned the additional title of Executive Vice President later that year. Taking an understated approach, his responsibilities and authority have increased during his years with the Saints, although Loomis has been part of the highest management circle in the organization since his arrival in New Orleans.

The departments under his direction include all functions that surround the football operations aspects of the organization – coaching, player personnel and scouting, salary cap management, contract negotiations, athletic training, communications, equipment and video.

Loomis was selected as the 2006 NFL Executive of the Year by Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America and was also honored as the George Young NFL Executive of the Year by The Sporting News, voted on annually by league front-office executives and owners.

In 2006, Loomis was a key figure in the hiring of coach Sean Payton – by the end of the season a unanimous choice for NFL Coach of the Year – as well as in signing QB Drew Brees, acquiring a handful of other productive veterans and drafting a top class of college players. Despite going into the season with a roster that had been essentially rebuilt from the year before, the Saints finished 10-6, won the NFC South and advanced to the NFC Championship for the first time in franchise history.

Each year, Loomis has followed an approach of building the roster through the draft – both in top picks and late-round finds, re-signing and rewarding core veterans and signing talented, productive players in free agency. In addition to always researching and exploring trade opportunities, with this formula the Saints have continued to restock the roster while also maintaining one of the league’s best salary cap positions.

In 2005, Loomis helped lead the club through unprecedented challenges for an NFL team. He calmly guided the players and staff through a sudden evacuation from New Orleans and several moves of the team's base of operations. In 2003, Loomis oversaw the renovation of the Saints headquarters that added an indoor practice facility, new weight room and cafeteria, giving the organization one of the league’s top complexes.

Loomis joined the Saints in 2000 as Director of Football Administration, a post he held until 2002, handling contract negotiations, managing the salary cap and coordinating different areas of the football operations.

Prior to coming to New Orleans, Loomis spent 15 years with the Seattle Seahawks, including as executive vice president from 1992-98. He joined the Seahawks in October 1983, was promoted to vice president/finance in 1990 and to executive vice president in 1992.

A native of Eugene, Ore., Loomis has a degree in accounting from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in sports administration from Wichita State University. Recently married (Melanie), Loomis has two children: a son, Alex, and a daughter, Katherine.