OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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The Athletics Australia Board of Directors consists of ten (10) individuals, that bring with them a breadth of knowledge across business, finance, commercialisation, sports strategy and governance. |
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Jane Flemming OAM Jane was appointed to the Athletics Australia Board of Directors in 2019 and was appointed as joint Vice-President in June 2022. Jane has been enthusiastically involved in athletics across her life and remains the Commonwealth Games Heptathlon record holder (set in 1990). Jane Flemming is Managing Director and proprietor of the sponsorship and marketing company, Flemming Promotions (“FP”), is a founding Director of a community health initiative, LIVE LIFE GET ACTIVE (“LLGA”) and is a regular expert commentator on all things sport and sponsorship. Jane devotes a significant amount of her time to charities including as director of the “Humpty Dumpty Foundation” (since 2006) and as an ambassador for the “The National Breast Cancer Foundation” (since 1998) and is a director of the Sydney North Health Network. Jane was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to Athletics and the community in 2014. |
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Jill Davies
Jill was appointed to the Athletics Australia Board of Directors in March 2021 and appointed as joint Vice-President in June 2022. Jill has been involved with the Olympic Games since Sydney 2000. A company director and a management consultant for two decades, Davies joins Athletics Australia with expertise in the event management and event bidding space. She has held senior roles in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Organising Committee and the bidding teams of Olympic projects in London, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Krakow and Budapest and was a key member of the team that recently secured the rights for Australia and New Zealand to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Davies has also served on the boards of the Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA) from 2012 – 2020 and Place Management NSW from 2017-2020. |
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Brian Miller Brian was appointed to the Board in February 2021. Brian is an experienced board director who has a long association with athletics from grass roots to high performance levels as an athlete, coach and sport psychologist. This includes Brian’s role as Team Psychologist for the Australian athletics team from 1984-1988 and again from 2013-2016. During his career as a team psychologist Miller has worked with athletes across 10 Olympic Games, 8 Commonwealth Games and more than 20 world championships and world cups across 7 different sports. Perth-based, Brian is CEO of ASX-listed technology firm, K2fly, which focuses on delivering Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) solutions to some of the world’s largest resource companies including Rio Tinto, FMG, Glencore, South 32 and Roy Hill. |
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Jeff Cook Jeff was appointed to the Athletics Australia Board of Directors in October 2019. |
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Steve Moneghetti One of Australia’s all-time greatest marathon runners, Steve Moneghetti represented Australia at four Olympic Games, four Commonwealth Games and six World Championships. Steve has run 22 marathons and finished 11th place or higher in 20 of them, notably winning the iconic Berlin Marathon in 1990. Since retiring from competitive running, Steve has been steadily involved in Australian sport as an experienced board director. He was formerly the Chair of the Victorian Institute of Sport (2001-2010), and has sat on the Boards of the Australian Sports Commission (2015-2021) and Commonwealth Games Australia (2018 – present). Steve was the Chef de Mission for the Australian Commonwealth Games Team for the last three Games, and is a Life Member of Athletics Victoria and Ballarat YCW. |
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Megan Dwyer Director Megan Dwyer was appointed to the Athletics Australia Board of Directors in March 2021 and has over six years as a Non-Executive Director at the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), as well as more than twenty years’ experience in the field of HR and Culture. She has spent many years consulting to organisations to deliver business strategy, with a focus on CEO and Executive advisory support in workforce and organisation design, team performance, establishing sustainable values-based cultures, Employee Value Propositions and HR and Talent management support. Outside of this, she has held Executive roles with Bank of Melbourne, Vodafone Australia and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. She currently Chairs the People & Culture Sub Committee at VAFA and will also take on this role for the AA Board as it navigates its own organisational culture transition. |
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Ben Sellenger Ben was appointed to the Athletics Australia Board of Directors in March 2022. Over the past 20 years Ben has established himself as one of Australia's leading executives in sport, often disrupting traditional sporting approaches with different and innovative thinking. |
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Merrick Howes Now working in investment management, former Australian representative rower Merrick Howes has established himself as Director and Managing Director within the finance sector. Merrick currently serves as Founder and Managing Partner of Aviron Investment Management, and over the past three decades has worked as a Managing Director at a number of blue-chip institutions including Goldman Sachs JBWere and Macquarie Bank. Merrick has served as a Non-Executive Director at Rowing Australia for nine years, having chaired its Audit and Risk Committee from 2015-2022. |
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Dr. Anna Cicognani Dr. Anna Cicognani is currently the CEO of Orbx, a leading flight simulation Company, and has served as CEO and in other C-level roles in public and private Companies, such as APN, PMP, Telstra, and Fairfax. She has been involved in digital media and technology projects of all sizes, as an operator and an investor, for over 25 years. Anna was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney, she's been an Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, and is a Director on the Board of Basketball Australia. Anna lives in regional NSW and is a keen rower and road cyclist. |