A founding member of Alan Taylor Communications, Inc., the leading independent sports public relations agency in the country, Howard Dolgon has spent more than 30 years in the public relations and marketing field. A graduate of Brooklyn (N.Y.) College, Dolgon has created and implemented numerous award-winning programs for a variety of corporations including MasterCard International, General Mills and Diageo. He has handled promotions throughout the United States, Europe and South America for World Cup Soccer and the Olympic Games. Both Dolgon and Taylor were named by the New York Daily News as two of the top 40 influential sport figures in New York.
 
Dolgon has served as visiting professor at the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and was a member of the Board of Advisors for the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics sport management program. He was also a member of the American Hockey League's Executive Committee.
 
In 2010, Dolgon was honored by the AHL as the recipient of the James C. Hendy Memorial Award as the league's outstanding executive. He was the driving force behind the Mirabito Outdoor Classic, the first outdoor game in AHL history, which was hosted by the Crunch at the New York State Fairgrounds on Feb. 20, 2010 and set an AHL single-game attendance record of 21,508. In 2014, he was selected as the winner of the Thomas Ebright Award for outstanding career contributions to the AHL. He was also honored with the 2014 Crystal Ball Award by the Central New York Sales and Marketing Executives. On Nov. 22, 2014, Dolgon set another hockey benchmark as he led the Crunch to host the first hockey game in Syracuse University's Carrier Dome as part of the Toyota Frozen Dome Classic. The game set a United States indoor attendance record with 30,715 fans.

Dolgon was inducted into the New York State Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2024 in July and inducted into the Inaugural Class of the Syracuse Hockey Hall of Fame in October 2024.
 
Dolgon resides in Boca Raton, Florida.  He has three sons, Mike, Garrett (Samantha) and Connor (Nicole), and four grandchildren, Ellie, Daisy, Annabelle and Madeline.