{"id":10877,"date":"2024-11-25T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2024-11-25T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T01:23:46","slug":"usta-foundation-announces-new-advisory-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/usta-foundation-announces-new-advisory-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"USTA Foundation Announces New Advisory Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/USTA.png\" alt=\"USTA\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3301\" \/>USTA<\/p>\n<p><strong>PURCHASE, N.Y.<\/strong> &#8211; The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association Incorporated (USTA), recently announced its newest Advisory Board members.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Lin Fabiano: Lin Fabiano is the Global Head of Social Impact &#038; Partnerships at Johnson &#038; Johnson, where she champions health equity and is a member of the Board of the Johnson &#038; Johnson Foundation. Previously, she was Vice President, Corporate Sustainability at American Express and Chief Operating Officer at the American Express Foundation. Alice\u2019s career journey reflects a call to serve, from supporting September 11th disaster recovery efforts in New York City to providing micro-loans to women entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia. She is a member of various Boards, including Trinity Health System and DoSomething. Alice is a graduate of Harvard Business School and The Johns Hopkins University, where she played on the women\u2019s tennis team.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Granger: Granger serves as President of OVG360, the venue management, venue services, and premium hospitality arm of Oak View Group, the world\u2019s largest developer of arenas and live entertainment venues. Additionally, Granger leads the development of GOAL (Green Operations &#038; Advanced Leadership), OVG\u2019s sustainability consulting arm, whose clients span professional sports teams, leading convention centers, major universities, and multiple motorsports properties. Before OVG, Granger served as Group President of Sports &#038; Entertainment for Ilitch Holdings, owner\/operator of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers. He was also President of the Sacramento Kings and held executive positions at the NBA league office.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Kennedy: Kennedy is Senior Vice President of Strategy at Placer.ai, an advanced foot traffic analytics platform. Before joining Placer.ai, Kennedy was Group Vice President at Fastly, and he spent nearly two decades at General Electric and Oracle in a variety of executive positions. Currently, Kennedy serves on the Board of Governors at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Klein: Klein is the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Getty Images (CEO 1995-2023). He has served on many for-profit boards, including Etsy, Squarespace, Jumia, Getty Images and Bloom &#038; Wild. Klein is an active philanthropist currently serving in several roles, including Board Member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Grassroot Soccer, ProPublica, and The New Press and has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Friends of Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and President of the Board of Trustees of Groton School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Stafford: Stafford is an award-winning journalist, author, columnist, and Tony award-winning producer of the Broadway musical \u201cA Strange Loop\u201d. He is the current Head of Content at Ampersand and co-hosts the popular news and culture podcast \u201cVibe Check\u201d. Previously, Stafford held leadership positions at several media outlets, including BuzzFeed, Out Magazine, and The Guardian. He was included in the 2019 Forbes\u2019 30 Under 30 list and named one of The Root\u2019s 100 most influential African-American people.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wapner: Wapner hosts CNBC\u2019s \u201cFast Money Halftime Report\u201d and \u201cClosing Bell\u201d programs. Wapner also authored the book \u201cWhen the Wolves Bite\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Harden Weiser: Weiser is the founder and Emeritus Fundraising Chair for the University of Michigan\u2019s Food Allergy Center and currently serves on the Michigan Medicine Advisory Group, which advises the CEO of the University of Michigan\u2019s health system, one of the leading academic medical centers in the world. She has served on the board of numerous regional, national, and local nonprofit organizations, including FARE, the largest private funder of food allergy research in the United States, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese talented individuals are leaders in their respective fields, and we are thrilled to have each of them share their unique insights and perspectives as they help guide our organization in the years ahead,\u201d said USTA Foundation Board President Kathleen Wu. \u201cWe look forward to working together to help create positive change and serve up dreams through the powerful combination of tennis and education for thousands of young people across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome our newest Advisory Board Members, whose diverse expertise and passion for service will undoubtedly move our mission forward,\u201d said USTA Foundation CEO Ginny Ehrlich. \u201cTogether, we are poised to better prepare youth for the challenges and opportunities of life, foster growth, and champion the love of tennis in more communities nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PURCHASE, N.Y.<\/strong> &#8211; The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association Incorporated (USTA), recently announced its newest Advisory Board members. \u201cWe are excited to welcome our newest Advisory Board Members, whose diverse expertise and passion for service will undoubtedly move our mission forward,\u201d said USTA Foundation CEO Ginny Ehrlich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[33,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}