Full name Peter Palandjian Career record 1–4 Turned pro 1987 Retired 1989 | Country (sports) United States Career record 1–11 Prize money 30,728 USD Career titles 0 | |
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Born February 12, 1964 (age 53)
Boston, Massachusetts ( 1964-02-12 ) Highest ranking No. 280 (August 15, 1988) Highest ranking No. 175 (July 10, 1989) | ||
Peter Palandjian (born February 12, 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the United States and currently a business man at the helm of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation.
Biography
Born in Boston, Palandjian attended the local Phillips Academy Andover, then went to Harvard University where he had a noted varsity career, and later to Harvard Business School. He twice captained the Harvard team and played in the NCAA championships, both in singles and doubles, as the team's number one player. Palandjian, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American literature, defeated Pat McEnroe at the NCAA Championships in 1986.
Palandjian competed professionally after leaving college and won six ATP tour Challenger titles, all in doubles. He also made main draw appearances in singles and doubles at various Grand Prix tournaments. Other notable victories included wins over Jay Lapidus (Stratton Mountain, 1987), Ricardo Acuna and Mark Dickson (Raleigh, 1987) Tony Mmoh (Boston, 1998), Martin Laurendeau (Miami, 1998), Andrew Sznajder (Seattle, 1998). One of his doubles partners, at the 1988 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships in Boston, was future world number one Jim Courier. In 1988 he featured in the men's doubles at three Grand Slam events, the French Open, Wimbledon Championships and US Open. He also played men's doubles at the 1989 French Open and mixed doubles at the 1989 Wimbledon Championships. His brother, Paul, was also a collegiate tennis player. The pair played a Grand Prix tournament together at Boston in 1989. During Palandjian's highest career world ranking in doubles he reached No. 175 on July 10, 1989.
Retiring from tennis in 1989, Palandjian worked for two years with Bain & Company, as an Associate. He was then an Assistant to the CEO of Staples, during which time he studied for his MBA at Harvard Business School.
Since 1993 he has been CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, a company founded in Boston in 1959 by his father Petros A. Palandjian, an Armenian immigrant, originally as a construction firm.
Mr. Palandjian holds memberships with the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM). Mr. Palandjian has also been active on a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards. He has served as a board member of several institutions including: co-Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Board of Overseers for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston; Dana Farber Cancer Institute; the International Tennis Hall of Fame; American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center; the New England Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP); O’Neill and Associates; Leader Bank; Town of Belmont (MA) Board of Retirement; and the Taubman Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Mr. Palandjian works on behalf of Harvard University as a volunteer undergraduate admissions interviewer. Mr. Palandjian was a two-time Harvard Captain and world ranked tennis player on the ATP tour. Mr. Palandjian earned his BA from Harvard University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has four children, Manon Palandjian, Petros Palandjian, Margot Palandjian and Madelon Palandjian.