Structure
Brad Drewett is the current Executive Chairman and President of ATP with Mark Young as the CEO of Americas. Laurent Delanney is the CEO of Europe while Alison Lee leads the International group.
The 7-member ATP Board of Directors includes Brad Drewett along with tournament representatives, Gavin Forbes, Mark Webster and Charles Smith. It also includes three player representatives with two-year terms, Giorgio di Palermo as the European representative, David Edges as the International representative and Justin Gimelstob as the Americas representative. The player representatives are elected by the ATP Player Council.
The 10-member ATP Player Council delivers advisory decisions to the Board of Directors, which has the power to accept or reject the Council's suggestions. The Council consists of four players who are ranked within top 50 in singles (Roger Federer (President), Kevin Anderson, Jarkko Nieminen and Gilles Simon in 2010–2012), two players who are ranked between 51 and 100 in singles (Robin Haase and Sergiy Stakhovsky), two top 100 players in doubles (Eric Butorac and Mahesh Bhupathi) and two at-large members (James Cerretani and Andre Sa).
The ATP Tournament Council consists of a total of 13 members, of which five are representatives from the European region along with another four from the Americas and an equal number from the International Group of tournaments.
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