Robin ‘Rob’ Fildes OAM (President)
Rob has a wealth of business experience and
a history in athletics dating back over 30 years to his days as a
club athlete at Sandringham. In 1964-71 Rob was an international
standard decathlon champion and ranked in the world’s top 15. He
also played for Collingwood from 1961-63.
Rob’s sporting administration experience includes a Trustee of
Melbourne Olympic Parks Trust (1995-2001), Chairman of Australian
Masters Games (1995) and Director of AFL Publications Board
(1982-95). In 1998, Rob received an OAM for sports
administration.
David Grace Q.C.
David is a lawyer in private practice with
a specialty in a number of areas of law including sports law. He
has had extensive involvement with sporting organisations as a
competitive athlete, as a consultant and in administration. He has
also acted as an advocate for many sportspersons appearing before
sporting tribunals. He has been an Arbitrator on the Court of
Arbitration for Sport since 2000 and was a member of that Court’s
Division established for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Between 2001-2006 he was President of the Athletics Australia
Tribunals. In 2004 he was Team Advocate for the Australian Olympic
Team at the Athens Olympic Games.
Matthew Mahon
Matt is the General Manager of
Melbourne-based consulting firm Royce. Royce is a communications
advisory firm that provides advice to a wide variety of clients,
ranging from some of Australia's largest corporations, to
governments at State and Federal level, to smaller companies and
not for profit organisations.
Matthew's experience lies in providing general business,
marketing and communications advice to major corporates,
government and a range of sporting organisations. Matthew
previously worked for IMG as Director of Marketing and
Communications (Australia). He is also a member of Old Xaverians
Athletics Club.
Eddie McGuire AM
Eddie is one of Australia's leading
sport and television personalities who has hosted numerous shows
including the six-time Logie winner - The Footy Show, plus Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire, the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal Match,
the 45th, 46th and 47th Annual TV Week Logie Awards, co-hosted
Australia Unites - Reach Out to Asia Telecast, and co-presented the
1998 Commonwealth Games from Kuala Lumpur.
Eddie has written two best-selling books, is head of his own
production company, McGuire Media, has been a sports journalist for
Eyewitness News, writes a column for Australia's largest
selling newspaper the Herald Sun, has had huge success in radio
shows such as the top rating D Generation, The Richard Stubbs
Breakfast show and The Grill Team and was responsible for bringing
AFL coverage to FM radio. Eddie is president of the Collingwood
Football Club (AFL) and has a long history of working with many
charities. Eddie and his wife, Carla, have two sons, Joseph and
Alexander.
Nicholas Moore
Nick has 21 years experience in business and information technology. He has extensive management, consulting and project expertise, achieved through engagements with major companies, particularly in the finance sector.
Nicholas is currently engaged by National Australia Bank as a
consulting Project Director managing retail banking projects and
has previously held senior management positions with IBM, Westpac
Banking Corporation and global software company SPL where he was
the Director of Professional Services in Sydney.
Nicholas has performed consulting engagements for organisations
such as American Express, AGL, NSW Police, Optus, NRMA, HCF,
Capital Finance, Suncorp, State Bank of NSW and Australian National
Rail.
Nicholas also has 36 years experience and involvement in athletics
at all levels. He started his athletics career with Randwick
Botany Little Athletics in 1970 and went on to compete at school,
club, university and open level. Nicholas is a current
masters athlete, and has competed at the World Masters Athletics
Championships.
He was president of Sydney University Athletics Club from 1991 –
2000 and is still closely involved with the club. In 1996 he
was appointed Venue Manager for the World Junior Athletics
Championships in Sydney and was a technical official during the
Sydney 2000 Olympics in conjunction with his employment with
IBM.
Peter Bromley
A former president of the New South Wales Athletics Association and
General Manager of LJ Hooker Financial Services since 2005, Peter
is responsible for establishing LJ Hooker's financial services
department.
Peter has worked for a range of significant financial institutions
including Westpac, the Bank of New Zealand and more recently, Rams
Home Loans.
He holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from the University of
Technology in Sydney.
Lisa Weightman
Lisa represented Australia in the marathon at the 2008 Olympic
Games and 2009 IAAF World Championships. In 2010 she won bronze for
Australia at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi (IND).
In addition to her athletics pursuits, Lisa is a highly successful
businesswoman. She is a business analyst for IBM and in 2000
received The Age Award for Business Excellence.
Anne Lord
Anne has worked in the public and private physiotherapy sectors in
Canberra and Melbourne.
Anne has represented Australia at the 1981, 1985, 1986 and 1987
World Cross Country Championships, 1991 World 15km Road
Championships, 1984 Yokohama Ekiden and 1987 Chiba Ekiden and test
matches in the New Zealand Cross Country Championships 1978
and 1979.
Anne is a previous Board Member and previous President of Athletics Victoria. Anne is currently on the IAAF Cross Country Committee.