In 2023, he was named WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award.
[1] Kolb was hired by the Liberty organization in March 2019,[2] following its transfer of ownership to Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, and helped transition the team from Westchester to a new era in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center.
Joining the team during their 2018–2020 slump, he helped improve the team and is credited with bringing it to a new level in their 2023 season by putting together an all-star team,[3][4] resulting in the winningest year in franchise history (to that point), a WNBA Commissioner's Cup win, and its first appearance in the WNBA Finals since 2002.
Ohemaa Nyanin, the inaugural GM of the Golden State Valkyries, was Kolb's first front office hire in 2019.
Kolb attended Arizona State University, where he earned his undergraduate and juris doctor (JD).