Career
On 20 November 2013 Kermode was appointed as the Association of Tennis Professionals executive chairman & president to succeed Brad Drewett who died of an illness in May 2013. His three-year term started on 1 January 2014, and he is based in the Association of Tennis Professionals’s London office. Kermode has been involved in tennis for more than 30 years.
Following his modest career as a professional player from 1985 to 1988, Kermode worked in London as a tennis coach and later served as the tournament director of the Queen"s Club Championships.
From 2008 to 2014 he has been the managing director of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour"s season-ending event Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour Finals. In addition Kermode has worked in the music and film business.
Before being appointed by the Association of Tennis Professionals Kermode applied for the position of chief executive at the British Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) but was not selected. Kermode is the grandson of Sir Derwent Kermode who was the British Ambassador to Indonesia (1950–1953) and the Czechoslovakian Republic (1953–1955) before taking Holy Orders and becoming vicar at Cocking, West Sussex.
