MISSION STATEMENT
To support, monitor and promote programs that enhance the lives of underserved 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, First Vice President 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.
Michael Goldstein, Retired Chairman and CEO of Toys R Us, Inc.; Chairman, Board of Directors, 92nd Street Y; Board of Directors, United Retail Group; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.; Medco Health Solutions; Pacific Sunwear; 4 Kids Entertainment, Inc.; Northside Center for Child Development; and, The Special Contributions Fund of the NAACP.
Jane Brown Grimes, former Chairman 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