Committee
| Tournaments Committee | Position | ||
| Chief Toke Aka | Nigeria | Chair | tokzy7@yahoo.com |
| Bob Jackman | Australia | Tournaments Committee | rjackman@ozemail.com.au |
| Sam Kantimathi | United States | Tournaments Committee | sam@samtimer.com |
| Michael Tang | Malaysia | Tournaments Committee | Michael.Tang@sdimedia.com |
| Albert Hahn | United States | Tournaments Committee | halbert98@shaw.ca |
About the Committee Members:
Chief Toke Aka
A civil engineer, Chief Toke is president of both the Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) (since 2001) and Pan-Africa Scrabble Association (PASA) since 2002. In addition, he's associated with other Scrabble groups, such as the Rivers State Scrabble Association which he has chaired since 2001. He is a chairman of the tournament committee of the World English-language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA).
In December 2003, the government of Nigeria cited him for exemplary leadership of sporting federations; and the Kenya Amateur Scrabble Association presented him a leadership award the following year.
He has been instrumental in setting up an e-mail group for the Nigerian Scrabble players and also the NSF website www.nigerianscrabble.com.
Through Chief Toke's initiatives, computerised tournament pairings, adjudication and national ratings were introduced. Over the past years, he has enabled Nigerian delegations to compete in all major world and African championships.
Sam Kantimathi
An aerospace engineering executive, Sam is doubtless best known in the Scrabble world for his SamTimer, the game's highly successful digital clock as well as other products for word games. He's competed in many high-level tournaments in the US, the Philippines ($10,000 first prize) and Thailand (twice runner-up), taking first place in competitions in seven countries.
Sam has been the contest director for chess and Scrabble tourneys and match director at the sixth African championships in Dar es Salaam. He's a member of a number of professional societies.
Sam will be representing the US in the World Scrabble Championships this year, as he has in the past.
Michael Tang
A media executive since 1992, Michael has been actively involved in organising Scrabble tournaments in Singapore and Malaysia. He organised the one and only Channel NewsAsia World Scrabble Masters in 1999 which was won by Naweeen Fernando with a prize money of US$25,000. He has also been organising the annual Causeway Scrabble Challenge since 2002 and hosted the WSC 2009 and WYSC 2009 in Johor Bahru. He is a regular Scrabble player in International tournaments and has competed in 1999 and 2001 WSC.