Claude Okin
Chief Executive Officer
Claude purchased his first tennis club in 1981 at the age of 19 and founded SPORTIME in 1994. He provides vision and leadership for all SPORTIME corporate directives. Claude supervises SPORTIME's Senior Leadership Team and manages the relationships with SPORTIME's Partners and funding sources.
Ben Schlansky
Man. Dir., RI/JMTA and Capital Projects
A member of the Bar in New York and Washington DC, Ben is the Managing Director of SPORTIME's flagship NYC location and of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy. Ben is also SPORTIME's Chief Legal Officer, functioning as house counsel for matters including acquisitions, contracts, insurance, employment, and immigration. He assists the CEO with SPORTIME's Partner and lender relationships. Ben also manages SPORTIME's construction and capital projects, with the assistance of the Company's Engineering Department. He is a member of SPORTIME's Senior Leadership Team.
Jeff Crowne
Man. Dir., Business Planning; Chief Admin Officer
Jeff develops and implements the Company's operations policies, objectives and initiatives and provides essential support to site leaders. He coordinates the budgeting process with SPORTIME's CFO, including proforma budgeting projections for new sites. Jeff works closely with the CEO and with Senior Leaders to facilitate the Company's success. He is a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Dan Beccaria
Executive Director of Engineering
With Claude, Dan is a founding Executive/Partner 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 site Leaders to help train and supervise site housekeeping and maintenance staffs. He is a Member of Senior Leadership Team.
Laurie Harlin
Chief Financial Officer
A Certified Public Accountant with more than 20 years experience, Laurie supervises SPORTIME's Accounting Department. Laurie coordinates the Company's budgeting processes with SPORTIME's CAO, and manages SPORTIME's banking and lender relationships with the CEO and CLO. She is a Member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Joe Siegel
GM Syosset/Bethpage/Roslyn, ED Multi-Sport/Camps
Currently General Manager of SPORTIME's Syosset and Bethpage Tennis sites, Joe created SPORTIME's successful Start Kids multi-sport curriculum and SPORTIME Volleyball Club, and currently supervises multi-sport programs at five SPORTIME locations, including SPORTIME's 56,000 square foot multi-sport club in Bethpage where he is the Senior Leader. Joe also provides senior leadership to all SPORTIME multi-sport summer camps, currently offered at five SPORTIME sites.
Kelly David
Executive Director of Marketing
Mary Wong-Saunders
Executive Director of Human Resources
Anthony Kerr
Executive Director of Information and Technology
Responsible for SPORTIME's information and technology infrastructure and services, including computers, phones, internet, and the SPORTIME member database, as well as related hardware.
Patrick McEnroe
Co-Director of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy
Lawrence Kleger
Co-Director of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy
Lawrence became the Director of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in the summer of 2012. Lawrence is a key member of the team that coordinates tennis pro hiring for the company and he is SPORTIME’s tournament and elite junior training expert. Lawrence has coached/coaches numerous sectionally, nationally and world ranked junior players, including 2014 Wimbledon Junior and US National Boys 18 Champion, Noah Rubin. Lawrence has coached since Noah was 7 years old.
As our communities react to the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, our focus remains supporting the health and wellbeing of our employees, members and customers. The following guidelines will be implemented across all SPORTIME facilities and will be updated on an ongoing basis, as we receive new information and directives from governmental and other health agencies and organizations, and based on our experience navigating this “new normal”. Click here to review. Notwithstanding all the precautions that SPORTIME will take, due to the nature of the virus, the risk of contracting COVID-19 remains, as we are all aware. Please be safe, respect others and follow all of the precautions, protections and protocols put in place during this COVID-19 epidemic.