Terdema Ussery

Terdema L. Ussery II is president and CEO of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team.[1]

Ussery is in his eighth year as president and CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. He serves as an alternate governor for the Mavericks on the NBA Board of Governors and is a member of the WNBA board of directors.[2] Under Ussery’s direction, the Dallas Mavericks has experienced increased corporate sponsorship, ticket sales, television revenues and community awareness.[3] He was ranked 21st in Sports Illustrated's "Top 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports,”[4] as well as the 2003 “Corporate Executive of the Year” by Black Enterprise magazine.[5]

Formerly, Ussery was president of Nike Sports Management. Prior to that, he was commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association. In 1999, then Texas Governor George W. Bush appointed him to a six-year term on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Ussery sits on several other corporate and community boards and serves as CEO of HDNet,[6] the nation's first high-definition television network. Ussery was elected to serve on Princeton University’s board of trustees, with a term ending in 2008.[7]

Ussery grew up in the Watts section of South Central Los Angeles. After graduating from The Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a master's degree in 1984 from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1987, Ussery earned a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he served as executive editor of the California Law Review.[3]

Corporate and Charitable Governance

Terdema Ussery holds positions in several charities and companies, including:

External links

References

  1. ^ a b Dallas Mavericks web site's front office page, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  2. ^ a b Biography of Terdema L. Ussery, Dallas After School All-Stars web site, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  3. ^ a b Biography of Terdema Ussery at International Speakers Bureau web site, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  4. ^ New World Order, Sports Illustrated Magazine, May 5, 2003, retrieved November 30, 2006.
  5. ^ Alan Hughes,Franchise Players, Black Enterprise Magazine, September 2003, retrieved on November 26, 2003.
  6. ^ a b HDNet press release, September 5, 2001, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  7. ^ a b Princeton University Board of Trustees (2005-2006) web page, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  8. ^ The Timberland Company Corporate Officers & Directors web page, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  9. ^ Treehouse Foods Board of Directors web page, retrieved on November 26, 2006.
  10. ^ CTS America Board of Directors web page, retrieved on June 2, 2009.
  11. ^ Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors web page, retrieved on November 26, 2006.