Dominic Schmitt Named General Manager of Tennis.com
Schmitt Brings 20 Years of Sports and Digital Experience Including TACODA, NBA, SportingNews.com and Golf Online
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06/10/08 - Santa Monica, Calif.--Dave Morgan, the newly appointed Chairman of The Tennis Company, announced today that he has hired sports and digital veteran Dominic Schmitt to be General Manager of TENNIS.com. The Tennis Company owns TENNIS.com, TENNIS and SMASH Magazines, and partners in the Pacific Life Open and the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The Pacific Life Open is the world's fifth largest tennis tournament and the largest independent tournament in the world after the four Grand Slams.
Mr. Schmitt’s responsibilities include the operational management, content syndication, product development and growth of TENNIS.com, the official site of TENNIS Magazine and the number one tennis site in the world. The site provides users with breaking news, live scores, instruction resources, gear reviews, travel, and an interactive online community.
“When it comes to serving sports enthusiasts with web, online ad, and ecommerce services, no one in the world has more experience and is better at it than Dominic Schmitt,” says Mr. Morgan. Mr. Schmitt was Vice President of Client Services at TACODA. Before that, he was Vice President of Product Development at Barnes & Noble.com, overseeing ordering, customer service, and personalization. Previously, Mr. Schmitt served as the Director of eCommerce for the NBA and as principal architect of the network of racing sites for Churchill Downs, including Kentuckyderby.com. He spent more than five years with Times Mirror Magazines, where he helped launch eight national web sites including SportingNews.com, Golf Online and SkiNet.com. Prior to his online career, Mr. Schmitt produced documentary TV and multimedia programming for ABC News, ABC Sports, and the Discovery Channel.
Mr. Schmitt has a BA from St. Louis University and an MA in International Affairs with a specialization in International Media and Communications from Columbia University.
“Dave was a visionary in ad serving at Real Media and behavioral targeting at TACODA. I am sure that he will take The Tennis Company to a whole new level and I am gratified to be included in what I am sure will be a rocket ride,” says Mr. Schmitt.
TENNIS.com, the official site of TENNIS Magazine, was the first in-depth tennis web site to hit the world wide web and has now been delivering original exclusive coverage for over 10 years. Fueled by the editors of TENNIS Magazine the web site continues to bring tennis fans around the world an interactive online tennis experience which cannot be found anywhere else. Along with original exclusive articles, TENNIS.com provides users with breaking news, live scores, instruction resources, gear reviews, travel, an interactive online community, and much more. TENNIS.com was awarded an ‘Online Excellence’ award for the year long interactive feature Ready, Set, Goal in the 2007 The Morning News Editors' Awards. TENNIS.com was awarded the ‘Best Publishing Site’ in the 2006 Ektron All-Star awards.
The Tennis Company (http://www.tennis.com) is world's largest independent media company focusing exclusively on the tennis enthusiasts regularly reaching more than 5 million tennis enthusiasts around the world. It publishes TENNIS Magazine, the #1 tennis publication, SMASH Magazine, the #1 tennis publication for youths and teens, TENNIS.com, the #1 tennis content website, and is a strategic investor in the annual Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California and the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the world's second largest tennis stadium. Working with all these assets, and more, The Tennis Company can provide unique, integrated, multi-media marketing opportunities for advertising partners. Principals in The Tennis Company and its assets include Bob Miller, Dave Morgan George Mackin, Chris Evert, Billy Jean King and Pete Sampras.
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