New directors elected to the NCA board for three-year terms are Tom Bennison, ClubCorp USA, Inc.; Luke O’Boyle, CCM, CCE, Chevy Chase (Md.) Club; Nick Sidorakis, CCM, Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Okla.; and Robert L. Smith, II, Venable, LLP, Washington, D.C.
The National Club Association (NCA) has elected new board members and officers to govern the Association.
The new directors elected to the NCA board for three-year terms are Tom Bennison, Senior Vice President Business Development, ClubCorp USA, Inc., in Dallas; Luke O’Boyle, CCM, CCE, General Manager and COO, Chevy Chase (Md.) Club; Nick Sidorakis, CCM, General Manager and COO, Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.; and Robert L. Smith, II, Senior Legislative Advisor, Venable, LLP in Washington, D.C.
Bennison has consummated more than 100 acquisitions, leases, joint ventures and management contracts for ClubCorp USA, Inc., and prior to that for Club Development Interests where he was a partner for ten years. In 2011 he sourced investment capital, which led to the formation of Fore Golf Partners.
O’Boyle has been the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of Chevy Chase Club for more than 13 years. Previously, O’Boyle held management positions at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., Greenville (S.C.) Country Club, Houston (Texas) Country Club, and the Vicmead Hunt Club in Wilmington, Del.
Sidorakis has been the General Manager and COO of Southern Hills Country Club for more than 22 years. Sidorakis has overseen two major golf course renovations and a $22 million facility renovation project and is currently leading the club through another facility master plan.
Smith is one of Venable’s top senior legislative advisors, representing and advising a diverse lobbying client base. His clients include influential stakeholders in the financial services, defense, pharmaceutical, health care, environmental and transportation industries.
The new officers of the National Club Association include NCA Chair, Kevin P. Vitale, General Manager and COO of Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J., with Frank J. Vain, President of McMahon Group, in St. Louis serving as Vice Chair. Terra S. H. Waldron, CCM, CCE, ECM, Vice President and COO of Desert Highlands Association in Scottsdale, Ariz., was elected as Secretary and Malcolm MacColl, President of the Board of Governors, The Westmoor Club on Nantucket, Mass., was elected Treasurer. The Immediate Past Chair is Ted M. Benn, Partner at Thompson & Knight LLP in Dallas.
The mission of NCA, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association, is to protect, defend and advance the interests and well-being of private, social and recreational clubs.
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