USTA Nominates Haggerty As President

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 13th October 2012

USTA Nominates Haggerty As President |

The USTA Nominating Committee has announced the nomination of David A. Haggerty as USTA Chairman of the Board and President to serve a two-year term beginning January 1, 2013. Haggerty has served on the USTA Board of Directors for six years and is currently completing a two-year term as First Vice President. He is a member of the Budget, International, Major Construction Oversight and Compensation committees, and represents the USTA on the Grand Slam Committee and the ITF Women’s Circuit Committee. He also is a member of the Board of Directors for USTA Serves.

Prior to his appointment as President, Haggerty served as the Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and as a member of the Compensation and Executive committees. Since 2007, he has served as a member of the Budget Committee. Haggerty also served for six years on the Board of Directors of the USTA Middle States Section including two years as Vice President and he served nationally as Chair of the USTA Section Marketing and Public Relations Committee, 2005-06 and Strategic Planning in 2009-2010. Haggerty served a two-year term as President of the Tennis Industry Association from January 2007 to January 2009, and has served on the TIA’s Executive Committee for more than 20 years.

Haggerty is the former Chairman of Head USA, a position he held until his retirement in March 2010. He began his career in tennis in 1980, when he was hired by Prince as Product Manager for accessories. In his 14 years at Prince, Haggerty worked his way up to General Manager before taking a position at Dunlop as President of Racquet Sports. He moved to Head in 1998, where he served as General Manager and President of Head/Penn Racquet Sports before becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Head’s U.S. businesses.

He currently serves as an External Director on the board of directors for Kepner-Tregoe, a global management consulting company that focuses on improving the business performance of clients worldwide using proven management methods. He has been nominated as a Board member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame beginning in 2013.

Haggerty began playing tennis at age 6, was a nationally-ranked junior at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills , Pa. , and was the No.1 singles player and captain for three of his four years at The George Washington University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration. Still an active player, Haggerty in 2004-05 was nationally-ranked in singles and doubles in the 45-and-over age division.

Haggerty has been inducted into the Pennsbury High School Athletic, The George Washington University Athletic, USTA Middle States and Mercer County Tennis Halls of Fame. He was named the 2008 Person of the Year by Racquet Sports Industry magazine.

Haggerty has five children and lives in Pennington , N.J. He resides in the USTA Middle States Section.

In addition to the Haggerty nomination, the following individuals have been nominated as the slate of new Officers and Directors of the USTA Board:

Katrina M. Adams, of White Plains , N.Y. , and USTA Eastern, is currently a Vice President on the USTA Board of Directors and has been nominated as First Vice President. In addition to her role on the board, Adams works a television analyst for Tennis Channel, and is event-contracted at Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network. She also serves as Executive Director of the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program in New York City . Adams played on the WTA Tour for 12 years and achieved a career-high doubles ranking of No. 8 in 1989. In 2008, she was inducted into the Chicago District Tennis Association Hall of Fame. She was a USTA National Coach and served on the WTA Tour’s Executive Committee, Anti-Doping Committee, Player’s Committee, and Special Olympics Committee. She serves as a member of the Budget Committee and also is a member of the Board of Directors of USTA Serves.

Donald L. Tisdel, of Lake Oswego , Ore. , and USTA Pacific Northwest , is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the USTA Board of Directors and has been nominated for a first term as Vice President. He is Chair of the Budget Committee and a member of the Audit, Compensation, and Investment Committees, and also is a member of the Board of Directors of USTA Serves. He currently serves as the Senior Operating Partner of Northwest Capital Appreciation, Inc., a private equity firm he co-founded. Under Tisdel’s direction, Northwest Capital formed two private equity partnerships that control four diverse companies with aggregate revenues exceeding $5 billion and a work force of approximately 2,300 employees. Tisdel has been an active tournament player for more than 60 years and continues to compete in two separate age-bracket categories.

Thomas S. Ho, of Houston , Tex. , and USTA Texas , who previously served on the USTA Board of Directors as Director at Large from 2009-2010, has been nominated as Vice President. At 15 years of age, Ho was the youngest men’s player ever to compete at the US Open. After a nine-year career, he was forced to retire in 1997 due to chronic back injuries. Ho achieved a career-high ranking of No. 85 in singles and No. 13 in doubles. He won four doubles titles during his career. He reached the third round in singles at the US Open in 1992, and in doubles reached the semifinals at Roland Garros in 1995. Following his playing career, Ho worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs and a financial advisor at UBS Wealth Management. He then worked as a Senior Associate at Korn/Ferry International, before taking his current position as an Associate Principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Houston office as a member of the Financial Services and Global Sport Leadership Advisory Group practices.

Patrick J. Galbraith, of Bainbridge Island, Wash., and USTA Pacific Northwest, is nominated for a first term as Secretary-Treasurer and is completing his third term as an Elite Athlete and a Director at Large of the USTA Board of Directors. He served his first term as Vice Chair of the Budget Committee and a second term as Vice Chair of the Investment Committee. A professional tennis player from 1989 until 2000, Galbraith is a two-time winner of the US Open Mixed Doubles Championship. He ended 1993 as part of the No. 1-ranked men’s doubles team with partner Grant Connell, and went on to win the World Doubles Championship in 1995. Galbraith, a member of the 1996 Davis Cup team, finished his career with 36 doubles titles. He is currently Vice President – Investments for UBS Financial Service, Inc.

Alexander Boyd Andrews IV, of Raleigh , N.C. , and USTA Southern, is nominated for his first term as Director at Large of the USTA Board of Directors. Andrews oversees development, acquisitions, strategic planning, construction and financing of eco-friendly commercial and residential projects throughout North Carolina , Virginia and South Carolina .&