David A. Pace

Education

Pace earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1740 and is among the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. Within the university, the Wharton School, established in 1881, was among the first collegiate schools of business, and Pace's studies there were in marketing and finance.

He went on to Suffolk University Law School, where he received a Juris Doctor in 1985. That year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, beginning his legal career in Boston. Suffolk University, founded in Boston in 1906, offered a law program that prepared students for practice in the Massachusetts legal community.

Career

Pace began his legal career in Boston at Ropes & Gray, a national law firm founded in 1865. He worked there as an attorney from 1985 to 1994. He also worked as a partner at S. E. Giorno.

In 1994 and 1995 he served as vice president, general counsel and clerk at Applied Extrusion Technologies, a specialty plastics manufacturer.

From 1995 to 2006 Pace held a senior legal post at Reebok International Ltd., a company that traced its origins to a British running-shoe business founded in 1895 and grew into a major athletic footwear and apparel brand. By 1999 he held the position of senior vice president-law and general counsel.

Beginning in 2008, Pace founded and led Pace Sports, which advises consumer brands and sports organizations on marketing, licensing, and investment and acquisition strategies.

From 2012 to 2014 he was player class director at the Women's Tennis Association, an organization established in 1973 to organize women's professional tennis. He has also been a part-time faculty member at Northeastern University, a private research university in Boston founded in 1898, and since 2023 he has served as an adjunct instructor at Suffolk University.

Membership

In 2013 Pace joined the board of directors of Good Sports, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing more disadvantaged young people into sports.

He has also served on the board of the Women's Tennis Association, the governing body for the professional women's tennis tour.

His board service includes the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, established in 1959 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to honor the history of basketball and its notable players and contributors. He is also associated with the Sport in Society Center at Northeastern University, which focuses on the relationship between sport and society.

• Member of the Board of Directors

  Good Sports , United States

  2013

• Member of the Board

  Women's Tennis Association , United States

• Member of the Board

  Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , United States

• Board member

  Sport in Society Center at Northeastern University , United States

References

• Patch A 2013 local news report on Pace's appointment to the Good Sports board, summarizing his education, legal career at Reebok and Ropes & Gray, and sports advisory work through Pace Sports.
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• Relationship Science A professional profile of David A. Pace describing his former position as senior vice president-law and general counsel at Reebok International Ltd. and his board service with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
• RocketReach A professional database profile listing Pace's education at the Wharton School and Suffolk University Law School and his employment history.