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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 some 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. 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.
He 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 six 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.
Jonathanmayer Mayer
Director of Marketing
Jonathan is a seasoned marketing professional. He has been
working in tennis since 1996.
Mayer spent nine and a half years at Fila, always involved
in tennis, growing the wholesale tennis business
exponentially. The business had grown dormant as the company
rapidly expanded into footwear and various other categories,
during the nineties. He took over the wholesale business and
was able to revive the fabled brand in an amazing six
months. Working along with the product development team, he
resuscitated the brand in the channel were it all began for
Fila in the seventies. He also ran specialty projects for
the company, and was involved with the worldwide licensing
effort with both Ferrari and Ducati for Fila
Jonathan started his own consulting business and wrote and
activated the US Open marketing plan for Polo Ralph Lauren’s
sponsorship of the US Open. The plan included touch
marketing, major advances in interactive and internet
marketing, as well as retail and athlete programs. He has
also consulted in the energy and fashion industries,
creating unique programs that work.
Jonathan joins RTM with a wealth of experience and a great
passion for tennis.
Erik McCann
Director of Information
Technology
After
leaving the Washington State University system where he
majored in Graphic Design and Information Technology, Erik
understudied with Mark Williams, Director of Special
Projects at Microsoft. After several years of consulting in
the area of Computer Science he brought his unique talents
to Renaissance Tennis to help fulfill Norman Canters vision.
Bernd Lenten
Former Coach
Valeria Solovieva
After
being a successful top 10 player in The Netherlands for
several years Bernd started coaching young talented players
in Germany and The Netherlands. Not long after he started he
successfully developed and managed his own tennis academy in
The Netherlands. First Lenten Tennis Academy (LTA) and in
2004 transformed it nto Tennis Training Midden-Gelderland
(TMG).
Bernd is an experienced coach who educated many
international players about the different things in tennis
that makes champions. In 2008 he sold his Tennis academy and
start working with Anna Chakvetadze on the Sony Ericcson WTA
Tour. In 2009 Bernd Lenten began working with RTM's top
junior player Lera Solovieva.
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