Karen Moorhouse is about to affix the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) because the company’s new Chief Government Officer, mentioned the integrity physique in a press launch right now.
Transitioning from Rugby to Tennis
Ranging from February 6, 2023, Moorhouse, whose appointment to the function was confirmed by the Board of the ITIA right now, will begin her duties as CEO, becoming a member of the tennis integrity physique from the Rugby Soccer League within the UK the place she spent the final 14 years serving because the league’s Chief Regulatory Officer.
Delighted on the alternative to affix a company that includes high-caliber sports activities people who share a dedication to defending the integrity of the game, Moorhouse hailed the efforts to point out the way in which ahead.
“By establishing and funding the ITIA, tennis is already rightly acknowledged as main the way in which in the way it offers with integrity issues,” she mentioned, outlining that her focus can be on the relationships with “stakeholders and different organizations within the sporting, anti-doping and betting panorama” looking for “new methods of teaching and supporting gamers and others concerned within the sport,” in addition to “monitoring compliance with the principles.”
“All with the overriding purpose of making certain that Tennis stays a trusted sport attracting new gamers, industrial companions and followers,” she concluded.
Moorhouse, who will substitute Jonny Grey on the helm of the ITIA, has additionally served as a non-executive director on the Board of the Rugby League World Cup that was hosted earlier this yr within the north of England. Gray left the worldwide tennis integrity physique in September.
‘Abilities, Expertise and Private Qualities’
“Karen stood out from a robust discipline of candidates as the one that combines the abilities, expertise and private qualities to take integrity in tennis to the following degree,” mentioned Jennie Value, Chair of the ITIA Board, highlighting her “deep data of integrity in sport,” in addition to the “spectacular governance and industrial expertise” she’s going to carry to the function.
“Above all, she is team-focused, inclusive and collaborative,” Value added, delighted at Moorhouse’s choice to affix the ITIA.
Established in 2020 by the Worldwide Governing Our bodies of Tennis “to advertise, encourage, improve and safeguard the integrity {of professional} tennis worldwide,” ITIA confirmed on a number of events its willpower to maintain the game clear of any shenanigans.
Among the many newest to check its resolve have been two French gamers, Jules Okala and Mick Lescure, who have been handed lifetime bans over match-fixing offenses going again to 2014, and a Bulgarian umpire, Stefan Milanov, who was suspended for six months for involvement in betting actions.
