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Managing Partner
Randy Walker
Randy Walker is communications and media specialist and the Managing
Partner for New Chapter Press. Walker began his relationship with
New Chapter Press in 2007 when he managed the production, marketing
and publicity for the Rene Stauffer book The Roger Federer Story,
Quest for Perfection. Other project work include working with such
properties as Jim Courier and the Outback Champions Series tennis
circuit, the International Fight League, the New York Titans, Spira
Footwear, Box NYC, Bud Collins and the book The Bud Collins History
of Tennis and Leverage Agency. Walker’s publicity efforts with
the New York Titans in 2007 was called by the National Lacrosse League
as “the best week of national U.S. press coverage the league
has ever had.”
Walker spent 12 years in the Marketing and Communications Division
of the U.S. Tennis Association from 1993 to 2005, concluding his
tenure at the USTA in the position of Sr. Publicity Manager for
Professional Tennis. During his tenure at the USTA, Walker was an
integral part of the USTA’s publicity and media operations
team for the US Open, coordinating post-event media tours for champions
Patrick Rafter, Lindsay Davenport and Lleyton Hewitt, managing Heineken’s
US Open Player Party in from 1997 to 1999 and working with US Open
sponsors such as IBM, Continental, American Express, Evian, Lincoln,
JP Morgan Chase and Olympus.
Walker worked as the press officer for the U.S. Olympic Tennis Team
at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the 2000 Games in Sydney and the 2004
Games in Athens, managing gold medal media tours for gold medalists
Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams and Serena Williams.
Called the “Roger Federer of tennis publicity” by SI.com,
Walker was the press officer for the U.S. Davis Cup team from 1997
to 2005 where he worked closely with Davis Cup sponsors NEC and
BNP Paribas and U.S. team sponsor AIG. Walker was responsible for
numerous media successes including hits on The Tonight Show, Late
Show with David Letterman, The Today Show, Good Morning America,
CBS This Morning, ESPN, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, Vanity Fair,
New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, among others.
Prior to working at the USTA, Walker worked at the Connecticut Radio
Network for its nationally syndicated “Ski Watch” program
and as a sports reporter for The Daily News, a New York Times company
daily newspaper in suburban Atlanta. Walker graduated from the Univ.
of Georgia in 1991 with a degree in Communications and minor in
History and English. He was a member of the Georgia men’s tennis
team that won the SEC Championship in 1988 and 1989 and were NCAA
Finalists in 1989. He is the great, great, great nephew of James
K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States. Randy resides
in New York.
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