About Us
Partnering with Premier Sports Events opens up a world of opportunities.
Premier Sports Events was founded to provide the very best customer service experience at different sporting events around the world. We combine the world’s most luxurious resorts and exclusive hotel destinations with the biggest stars on the WTA/ATP tours, to develop very unique sporting travel experiences and events for its clients. Premier Sports Events also provide custom travel packages to the world’s top tennis tournaments. Trips included are Wimbledon and the US Open. Our leadership team has over 70 years in combined experience in the tennis, events and travel industry. These experiences have given Premier Sports Events the advantage to truly understand what is needed to deliver 1st class customer service and world class tennis travel and sporting event experiences.
Meet the Team
KARL HALE
PRESIDENT & CEO
Karl is one of the most well known and respected tennis persons in the industry. He was ATP ranked between 1988-92, participated as a player and coach in Davis Cup for Jamaica and is a former Fed Cup Coach for Canada. In 2007, Karl was World #1 player over 40, in 2006, he was named PTR Pro of the Year. Karl has most recently taken Serena and Venus Williams and Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli to Jamaica for clinics and organized an exhibition with Jim Courier. He is a very dynamic individual that is well liked and highly regarded by both ATP and WTA tour players alike.
Karl founded the Daniel Nestor Charity Event which has raised over $1,000,000 for North York General Hospital and Tennis Canada Go for Gold Fund. He also founded the Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation www.helpinghandsjamaica.com which has raised over $1,500,000 for education in his native Jamaica along with building 13 new schools. Karl’s attention to customer service, personal relations with the world top player’s and industry elite sets Premier Sports Events apart. We look forward to taking care of every client’s needs and exceeding expectations.
Nima Naderi
Caribbean Cup Tennis Series Manager
Nima Naderi has spent over 25 years in the tennis industry in many different capacities.
He’s coached tennis for over 20 years, taught nationally ranked players, been the Head Teaching Professional at Bayview Golf & Country Club, won a coaching award with the PTR (2015), continues to be the Founder and Creative Director of the top news outlet TennisConnected. Com, been a published writer for the ATP, Tennis Canada and TennisViewMagazine, featured tennis analyst on CTV News, CBC Radio and talkSport radio and finally the Co-host of the No. 1 tennis PodCast on iTunes for TennisConnected.
Nima played tennis competitively as a junior and currently is the Tournament Director for the Caribbean Cup Tennis Series.
See you on the courts!
Avertano Cruz
Head of Officiating
Official certified by the itf since 1991.
worked as chair umpire in several professional tournaments like, Davis cup, Pan American games, Central American and Caribbean games, ATP an WTA, challengers in America, Central America, Canada, Europe.
Delegate of Mexico at the Atlanta 96 Olympic Games.
Technical director of the ATP and WTA tournaments in Acapulco and Los Cabos.
Responsible for the operation in the Madrid Open and Tianjin in China.
Technical advisor in the Monte Carlo tournament, official in theTournaments like Linz, Budapest, Vienna, and several tournaments in Canada.
supervisor of the cotecc organization from 1994 to 2008.
Supervisor of the junior tournaments in the Caribbean since 1992 until Now.
CEO of the AMCJ company, sports and promotional events.
Supervisor at the Caribbean series cup since 2016 until now
Karin Coulter McPherson
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Karin has over 20 years of Marketing and Communications experience in the Sports and Entertainment industry in a variety of capacities. Along with her B.A., Karin holds certifications in Marketing and Social Media Marketing. She has developed national media and advertising campaigns and managed national charity events. Karin has experience as a media spokesperson and advisor, and is passionate about all things Social Media.
Peyman Foroughi
head of graphic design and digital Media
Peyman is an experienced media expert with +10 years of design experience in digital and print industry. His design expertise combined with his marketing education helps our brand communicate better with its audience.