Our History

Executive Director Peter Straus created Team Prime Time (TPT) in response to the critical need for after-school programming for at-risk children from low-income areas of Los Angeles in 2001. With over thirty five years of experience teaching and coaching in LAUSD schools and at his Prime Time Sports Camp, Straus was all too familiar with this crisis. Most programs that existed ended at the elementary school level, creating the void at the middle school level that Team Prime Time set out to fill.

In 2003, Team Prime Time extended its programming to an additional at-risk population, children with developmental disabilities, by creating its full-inclusion sports program, the Prime Time Games®. As the centerpiece of TPT’s leadership component, the Prime Time Games® gives TPT students the opportunity to peer-mentor and coach, creating a win-win for everyone involved. The Prime Time Games® took a significant step forward in 2012 with the launch of the Prime Time Games® full-inclusion sports league.

Program Leadership

Peter Straus
Founder and Executive Director

Robert Hinds
Director of Operations

Ronnie McClain
Asst. Director, CQI and Inclusion

Kent Campfield
Sr. Program Director

Atonye Niyingifa
Regional Director, Prime Time Games

Board of Directors

Hon. Patricia L. Collins - Chairman
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge (ret.)

Peter Straus – President
Executive Director, Team Prime Time

Michael G. Herman – Corporation Secretary
Attorney at Law

Greg Altman – Treasurer
Tax Partner, Holthouse, Carlin & Van Trigt LLP

Helen Gaskin
Founder/President- Natan Enterprises Inc.)

Markham L. Goldstein
President and CEO, Entertainment Partners

Memo Kahan
Founder and CEO, PromoShop

Michael Mallow
Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP

Peter Moglia
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

David Siegel
President and CEO, Los Angeles Sports Council

Larry Stern
CFO, Westwood Financial (ret.)

Advisory Board

David M. Carter
Executive Director, USC Sports Business Institute

Jackie Caster
Founder, Everychild Foundation

Jason Blumenthal
Producer, Escape Artists

Jennifer Allen
Founder, Viewpoint LA Public Relations

John Ireland
Radio Play-By-Play Announcer, Los Angeles Lakers and Host of The Mason and Ireland Radio Show on ESPNLA

John Keenan
SVP and General Counsel – AEG Worldwide

Mark Silverman
President, Big 10 Network

Merle Price
Deputy Superintendent, LAUSD (ret.)

Michael Leitner

Mike Linn
Head Athletic Performance Coach, UCLA

Robert Teinowitz
President, Live Action Media

Stephanny Freeman, PhD.
Director, Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program Asst. Clinical Professor, Center for Autism Research and Treatment

Vada Hill
Former Chief Marketing Officer; Board Member; Investor

Matt Stevens, Advisor
Prime Time Games®

James Worthy
National Basketball Commissioner Prime Time Games®

Eric Dickerson
National Football Commissioner Prime Time Games®

hall of fame

TPT’s annual fundraiser, the Hall of Fame Speaker Series, celebrates those who have chosen to use their success as a platform to help others. We’re truly honored to work with such incredible people to enrich the lives of the youth we serve.