Today, the Sixers and Bryan Colangelo have taken steps to build their new front office. Colangelo hired Marc Eversley from the Wizards and Ned Cohen from the NBA’s league office in as-yet undetermined roles.

First, let’s look at Ned Cohen. Cohen most recently served as Associate Vice President of Basketball Operations, the third-highest office in the NBA. Thanks to some intrepid tweeting by reader @SmartySampson, we were able to find Cohen’s wife’s twitter. He looks to have an account but it’s protected. Cohen’s wife, Lauren, is a Twitter employee in New York (and through some tweets I am very confident this is OUR Ned Cohen), and you can get a look at the Sixers’ newest hire here (he looks so, so, so young):

https://twitter.com/LaurenStephan/status/724260212908122112

Other than that, the dude is basically a ghost online – Hinkie would be proud. But his hiring comes with some high praise:

Young nerd? I’m in. And with Bryan Colangelo bringing him in, Cohen looks like he could fit as an assistant GM or, if Bryan wants to take on more of the President role, the GM. The Process is alive.

Bryan also reached back into his Toronto days to hire former Wizards VP of Scouting Marc Eversley to reportedly “head player personnel efforts.” Neither hire has been announced, and therefore we don’t have any official titles, but the Colangelo era is officially off and running.

UPDATE: We got job titles.

And from a team press release:

Eversley will manage all aspects of the Sixers’ scouting department and play an integral role in roster management and talent evaluation. He has spent the last three seasons with the Washington Wizards as Vice President of Player Personnel, where he helped build a team that advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals in both 2013-14 and 2014-15. The Wizards posted 90 regular season wins during that two-year stretch, which was the most for the franchise over that span since the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons (93 wins). Prior to joining Washington, he spent seven seasons as Assistant General Manager with the Toronto Raptors.

Cohen, who will start with the Sixers beginning this June, joins the team after serving as the Associate Vice President of Basketball Operations with the NBA. Since his arrival at the league office in 2004, he played a critical role in a number of areas, with a specific focus on competitive matters. Additionally, Cohen was a key part of the operations surrounding many of the league’s significant meetings and events, including the NBA All-Star Game, Competition Committee and Board of Governors meetings. With the Sixers, he will serve as the primary liaison for all interdepartmental planning, coordination and communication.