Claude Okin
Managing Partner

Bought first tennis club in 1981, at the age of 19. Created partnership and founded company in 1994. Provides leadership and vision for all SPORTIME corporate directives. Employs and supervises Director of Operations and Executive Management Team. Functions as Chief Executive Officer and manages relationships with SPORTIME's partners and funding sources.

Jeff Crowne
Executive Director of Operations

Functions as Chief Operating Officer for SPORTIME. He runs the Central Office in Kings Park and is the Direct Supervisor of all Managers and Regional Managers of SPORTIME sites.  He works closely with Claude Okin, General Partner, Laurie Harlin,Controller, and Ben Schlansky, General Counsel, to steer the company’s growth and direction.

Laurie Harlin
Controller

A Certified Public Accountant with almost 20 years experience, Laurie supervises SPORTIME’s Accounting Department and is an integral part of SPORTIME’s Executive Management Team.

Ben Schlansky
General Counsel & Regional Manager

A member of the Bar in New York and Washington DC, and a former corporate attorney, Ben handles all of SPORTIME’s legal matters including acquisitions, contracts, insurance and employment issues. Ben is also the Regional Manager for SPORTIME’s sites at Quogue, Amagansett and Randall’s Island.

Jay Karl
Executive Director of Sales

With more than 30 years experience in the fitness industry, specializing in sales and marketing, Jay supervises and mentors membership personnel and functions as Executive Director of Sales. Jay also serves as Regional Manager of SPORTIME’s Syosset Fitness and Racquetball facility and our newest club, Sportime at ProHealth in Lake Success.

Joe Siegel
Executive Director of Multi-Sport and Camps

Joe created SPORTIME’s highly successful Start Kids™ multi-sport curriculum and currently supervises Start Kids programs at five SPORTIME locations, including SPORTIME’s 56,000 square foot multi-sport location in Bethpage, which Joe also supervises. In addition, Joe is the Executive responsible for all SPORTIME multi-sport summer camps, currently offered at 5 SPORTIME sites.  

Mark McEnroe
Director of Corporate Development

Mark joins SPORTIME after a 20-year career as a corporate attorney, operating executive and venture capitalist. He works with Claude Okin, Jeff Crowne and Ben Schlansky on company-wide development initiatives. In addition, Mark is the General Manager of our SPORTIME at Randall's Island club.

Lawrence Kleger
Executive Director of Tennis

Lawrence provides supervision and mentoring for all SPORTIME Directors of Tennis and oversees all tennis pro hiring and training. He personally runs our Elite tennis training programs at Bethpage and Syosset. Lawrence is coach to numerous nationally ranked junior players on Long Island. Lawrence provides broad vision and leadership for all tennis programming at SPORTIME clubs.

Dan Beccaria
Executive Director of Engineering

Other than Claude, Dan is the only other founding Executive of SPORTIME. With 30 years experience in tennis court and enclosure construction, Dan is in charge of the maintenance and improvement of our facilities. In addition to supervising SPORTIME’s Engineering Department, Dan works with Managers to help train and supervise site housekeeping and maintenance staff and coordinates all capital and R&M projects.

Sandy Ferziger Grimm
Central Office Manager

With decades of experience as a club manager and the league coordinator at Roslyn Racquet owned clubs, Sandy assumed the role of Central Office Manager shortly after the merger in 1998. Sandy provides invaluable support to SPORTIME managers and executives in a wide range of areas including print material, scheduling and marketing.

Eric Fromm
Executive Director of Tennis

Eric played on the professional tennis tour from 1978-1985. He was ranked # 38 in the world and # 18 in the world on clay courts in 1983. His career highlights include wins over Yannick Noah at Wimbledon and Pat Cash at the US Open in singles and Stefan Edberg/Brian Gottfried and Ilie Nastase/Jose Luis Clerc at the French Open in doubles. Eric reached the Round of 16's of the French Open in 1983 (losing to Jimmy Connors) and the semi-finals of the French Open doubles in 1984 (losing to Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte). He played collegiate tennis at Columbia University and, after retiring from the pro tour, earned his MBA from Columbia Business School. In the past 15 years, Eric has taught literally thousands of students of all ages and levels. In opening SPORTIME at Harbor Island in 2002, Eric has found his "calling", working hard every day to create a wonderful tennis experience for each of SPORTIME at Harbor Island's 1700 members.