{"id":4161,"date":"2012-03-23T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2012-03-23T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:33:44","slug":"steven-baldas-appointed-new-tennis-sa-chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/steven-baldas-appointed-new-tennis-sa-chief-executive-officer","title":{"rendered":"Steven Baldas appointed new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennis SA board have today appointed <strong>Mr Steven Baldas<\/strong> to take on the role of Tennis SA Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteven brings impeccable credentials in the area of commercial operations as well as a strong playing background\u201d said Kent Thiele, Tennis SA Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis blend ensures our sport has the necessary leadership to reach the next level\u201d Kent continues.<\/p>\n<p>Steven\u2019s playing involvement includes competing on the international junior, US collegiate and professional tennis tours.\u00a0 He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance (University of Georgia, USA) and Masters Degree in Business Administration (University of Adelaide) which has led him to a 13 year professional career in the financial services sector including a US based Vice President role.<\/p>\n<p>Steve said \u201cSince my tennis career came to an end I\u2019ve had a passion to return to a leadership role within tennis in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The role of CEO of Tennis SA will provide me the opportunity to contribute back to a sport that gave me so much\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The selection committee, comprising three Tennis SA board members (excluding the President) and a representative from Tennis Australia completed a comprehensive process to select the right candidate. \u00a0Steven will commence in the role from 23 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alistair MacDonald, previous CEO of Tennis SA will\u00a0be relocating to Melbourne to undertake a key leadership role with Tennis Australia as Tournaments and Competitions Manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ends \u2013<strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For further media information please contact:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nClare Chapman, Tennis SA, Tel: 0412 484 453<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA board announces new Chief Executive Officer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}