Steve Holmes

Steve’s unique talents and skills will support Kingdom Franchisees by providing high level consulting to the leadership team.

Steve started his distinguished business career over 34 years ago in the workforce management industry consulting both Franchisors and Franchisees on how to optimize their human resource outputs and reduce their labor spend. During this period, Steve built several businesses that have surpassed the $100M annual revenue mark. 

A highlight in Steve’s career was when he took a company public that he founded on the NASDAQ. 

Fun Fact: Steve was a linebacker on the University of New Mexico’s football team at the same time that Ace Rodrigues was a quarterback at rival WAC school, the University of Hawaii.

Steve has been involved with coaching youth football since 2004 and led his team in 2011 to the National Championship game in Orlando, Florida. Steve is involved in many local and national business associations as well being involved in his local church. Steve has been married to his wife Shassidy for over 25 years and they have 5 children, and 1 grandchild.

Steve Holmes

Ace Rodrigues

Founder and CEO

When asked how he came up with the concept of Pickleball Kingdom, Ace likes to say, “On a windy, dirty court while standing in the sun waiting to play on January 9, 2021, I said out loud, ‘There has to be a better way.’ And then God threw this lightning bolt of a mission into my heart that has lit my brain on fire, and it’s been blazing ever since.”  

And the pickleball world has been better for it. Ace’s past experiences founding companies, scaling growth, and creating support networks, primarily in the financial services and energy efficiency sectors, serves him well in setting the go-forward vision to build Pickleball Kingdom.   

Having developed and coined numerous concepts and phrases that are now industry standards, Ace’s innovative approach continues to craft the path for not only the Kingdom brand, but the greater indoor pickleball industry itself. The creation of “Pickleball Paddle Battle,” a competition reality show is one such example of Ace’s leading-edge thinking.  

Originally from Hawaii, Ace has been married to Tracy for over 30 years and they have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. Ace and Tracy love sports, movies, and eating out. 

What motivates him? “I’m the most blessed man on the planet. So, my drive is to create Kings and Queens of Kingdoms, which are our franchisees, first throughout America, then throughout the world.”