PETERSBURG, Fla. — Valerie Camillo will assume management of girls’s skilled tennis as the brand new president of the WTA Tour and WTA Ventures, efficient subsequent month.
The WTA introduced Camilo’s hiring on Tuesday. She’s going to begin on November seventeenth, changing outgoing tour chairman Steve Simon.
“I’m honored to steer the world’s primary girls’s sport at such a essential time,” mentioned Camilo. “The WTA has a protracted historical past of driving progress and pushing boundaries for athletes and followers alike.”
“These are vital occasions for ladies’s tennis, with vital choices forward that can form the way forward for our gamers, tournaments, followers and companions,” she mentioned.
Camilo serves on the boards of Herschend Household Leisure and the College of Virginia Athletics Basis. She beforehand served as president and CEO of Comcast Spectacor’s sports activities and leisure division, the place she oversaw enterprise operations for the Philadelphia Flyers and Wells Fargo Heart, and held senior positions with the Washington Nationals and NBA.
