Extraordinary People: Who We Are

Renaissance Tennis Management (RTM) is comprised of professionals who have become top performers in their respective careers. United by the passion for tennis and a distinctive focus on winning, we all actively participate in developing and branding our players, covering every aspect on and off the court. The team is driven by the desire to help players achieve their dreams and provide extraordinary career opportunities they would otherwise never be able to obtain.

Norman M. Canter
CEO & Co-Founder, Managing Director

Norm grew up in the business world and began working full time by 19. He was blessed with great mentors, motivators, and teachers who helped him become successful. It has been said he’s “done it all”. He has enjoyed an extremely diversified industrial and marketing career throughout the world in many different enterprises and has a reputation of making things happen. As a kid in sports they gave him the ball to go win the game. In business, it was Norm that would be called in to close the big deal. Norm learned how to win at an early age becoming a self made entrepreneur and wealthy man at 24.

He has the gift of a visionary, capable of making ideas into realities. He has built companies from the ground floor up, into multi million dollar enterprises. Starting in the packaging industry, his career over four decades included food, entertainment, sports, and a very successful career in the energy business, creating energy conservation as an industry in the mid 80’s.

He has lived and worked all over the world.

Nine years ago he made a decision to focus his full time and energy on tennis and began by sponsoring and working with junior players (including some of the highest ranked boys and girls in the world), as well as with professional men and woman players.

Norm moved to The Bahamas and built the Fast Grand Slam of Tennis located at Westin at Our Lucaya, on Grand Bahama Island. “A tennis experience, something extraordinary that average tennis players can appreciate. Constructing actual replicas of the four grand slam courts located next to a 1200 room Westin resort on the beach. It doesn’t get any better.

He began travelling on the pro tour almost four years ago and attends 30-35 professional tournaments per year as well as many ITF junior events. His passion for tennis, the players, winning in the business part of tennis, is equaled by none.

Richard W. DeVries
Chairman of the Board

Richard has been practicing law since 1978, and has been providing legal advice to clients worldwide since then, primarily in the areas of the implementation of international financial and business strategies, wealth preservation, tax and estate planning, corporate finance and compliance with securities laws.

Richard has diverse business interests as well as vast amount of business experience and utilizes those skills as a director and major shareholder of numerous public and private companies worldwide.

Richard has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (1974) as well as Bachelor of Law Degree (1977), both from the University of Alberta. He was admitted as a member of the Law Society of Alberta in 1978. In addition to being a member in good standing of the Law Society of Alberta, Richard is also a member of the Calgary Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association.

Richard now resides on Grand Bahama Island with his wife and two sons. Richard’s legal expertise and success in his many diverse business enterprises adds to the perfect ingredients which ensures the success of Renaissance.