MISSION STATEMENT
To support, monitor and promote programs that enhance the lives of at-risk children through the integration of tennis and education.
Board of Directors
Katrina M. Adams, Executive Director of Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program; Color Analyst for The Tennis Channel; Director at Large, USTA Board of Directors; enjoyed a twelve-year career on the WTA Tour, where she was ranked as high as No. 67 in singles and No. 8 in doubles, capturing 20 doubles titles; Member, Northwestern University Hall of Fame.
Howard B. Cowan, Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant; Founder and President of Cowan Financial Group; awarded Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's National Chairman’s Trophy.
Anne Marie Davis, community volunteer; benefactor of the Dwight F. Davis Memorial Scholarship.
Gary L. Davis, Attorney; Accredited Airport Executive; President and CEO, New York Junior Tennis League; former Manager of Airport Operations, Newark Liberty International Airport.
David N. Dinkins, 106th Mayor, City of New York; Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Senior Fellow of the Center for Urban Research & Policy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; Director-at-Large, USTA.
Benjamin Doller, Vice Chairman, Sotheby’s North and South America; a former Trustee and Board member of the Optometric Center of New York, a foundation devoted to vision science research, care and education, and a former member of the advisory board of God's Love We Deliver.
Jamshid Ehsani, Managing Director and Global Head of Life Assets at Swiss Re; Co-CEO of ISM Advisors, Horace Mann School Board of Trustee, involved in a number of charitable organizations in New York and Connecticut including Time For Lime, Inc. , Asia Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lucy S. Garvin, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the USTA; former President of USTA Southern Section; previous careers in nursing and the management and marketing of tennis facilities.
Jane Brown Grimes, Immediate Past President of the Board and President of the USTA; former President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she is now its President Emeritus; Chairman of the Board, Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring Association; member, Board of Directors, Provident Loan Society; Trustee of The Brandywine Conservancy.
Andrè Hawaux, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Conagra Foods; Former Senior Vice President, Worldwide Strategy and Corporate Development – PepsiAmericas, Inc.; Board member, PepsiCo Employees Federal Credit Union.
Cheryl Haywood, Former Principal Court Attorney, Kings County; Trustee, Brooklyn Public Library Foundation; Committee Participation, Wellesley Alumnae Association, First Presbyterian Church – Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Jack & Jill of America.
John B. Hess, Chairman and CEO, Hess Corporation; Board of Directors, National Advisory Board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, Harvard Business School, Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center, Wildlife Conservation Society/NY Zoo, and the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Education Foundation; Member, Council of Foreign Relations.
Carol Richardson Kimmelman, Former elementary school teacher; volunteer tennis coach and teacher; elementary school tutor.
Robert H. Lessin, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co., Inc.; Chairman, SoundView Ventures, the venture capital arm of SoundView Technology Group, Inc.
Julia A. Levering, Past President of the Board of Directors of the USTA.
Karen Martin-Eliezer, Chief Executive, USTA Serves; former Senior Vice President, Graham Windham Services for Families and Children; career in education included elementary school principal, adjunct college instructor, and Early Childhood Education Leader.
Elizabeth L. Mathieu, Esq., President, AMA Global; Board of Directors, Committee of 200, Securities Industry Institute, New York Estate Planning Council; Dean’s Advisory Council, Columbia University School of International Affairs; Bar Associations, ABA Sections of Taxation and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, NY City Bar Assoc. – Trust & Estates Sub Committee; Advisory Board Member, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller University, Thirteen/WNET, NY City Ballet, NY Philharmonic, Health Care Chaplaincy.
Patrick McEnroe, President, USTA Serves; 38th U.S. Davis Cup Captain; USTA Board of Directors 1999-2000; TV commentator for CBS Sports and ESPN; USTA High Performance Program advisor; part-owner of World Team Tennis franchise, The New York Sportimes.
Paul Palandjian, Founder and Managing Director of Somerset Equity Advisors, LLC; Board of Trustees at the Belmont Hill School; Board of Directors of the Denis Leary Firefighters Foundation; Harvard undergraduate admissions reviewer; former world-ranked tennis player on the ATP Tour.
Lawrence A. Rand, Senior Vice President and Director of Kekst and Co., Inc.; Mayor of the Village of Rye Brook, NY; former Chairman of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association.
Missie Rennie, Media Consultant, Award-winning television producer; Board of Directors, Miss Porter’s School, Asia Foundation, The Breakthrough Collaborative, Breast Cancer Research Foundation Advisory Committee, Henry Luce Scholars Selection Committee; Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Alan G. Schwartz, Past Chairman of the Board and President, USTA; Founder, Co-Owner and Chairman of the Board, Tennis Corporation of America; Board of Directors, Duke University Graduate School of Business; Trustee, Roosevelt University and the Institute for European and Asian Studies.
Fred Shen, CEO, Shen, Milsom & Wilke, Inc., an international technology consulting firm.
Pam Shriver, Past President, USTA Serves (USTA Tennis & Education Foundation); International Tennis Hall of Fame Inductee; Five-time US Open Doubles Champion; Sports Commentator; Olympic Gold Medalist.
Tiina Bougas Smith, Chairman, Smith Family Fund; Number 2 ranked national women’s 40 singles player for 2004; Board of Directors, Park School, Tenacity (formerly); previously, investment banking with Morgan Stanley, Lazard Freres.
Donald L. Tisdel, a Director at large of the USTA; Managing Director of Northwest Capital Appreciation, Inc., a private equity firm that he co-founded.
Bahar Uttam, CEO of the Boston Lobsters, LLC, a World Team Tennis franchise. Founder and Chairman of Synetics Corporation.
Jonathan Vegosen, a Director at large of the USTA; founding partner Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman and Dunn LTD.; former vice president USTA Midwest Section and Midwest Youth Tennis and Education Foundation.
Rosalind P. Walter, Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Channel 13/WNET; American Museum of Natural History, International Tennis Hall of Fame, and Museum of Television and Radio; member National Junior Recreational Committee for Inner City Drug Prevention; Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University.
Mary McLean Wilson, No. 6 Ranked Women’s 50s Singles Tennis Player; Board Member, Hospice of Buffalo and Strong Museum of Rochester; Married to Ralph Wilson, Owner, Buffalo Bills Football Team.
Barbara S. Wynne, Founder and Publisher, Indy’s Child; President, Indianapolis Junior Tennis Development Fund; Founder, Coordinator, Washington Township Schools Tennis.
Pros Join to Support USTA Serves
USTA Serves has created the Professional Player Advisory Council. The Council is a group of high-profile current and retired tennis players who have agreed to assist the Foundation in its fund-raising efforts.
We are delighted that the following pros are vital members of our Foundation:
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James Blake
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Mary Carillo
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Jim Courier
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Mary Joe Fernandez
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Billie Jean King
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Todd Martin
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Patrick McEnroe
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Pam Shriver
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MaliVai Washington