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Snow Australia has welcomed Jen Krawczyk as the new National Integrity Manager with Krawczyk’s appointment being a shared role between Snow Australia, the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) and the Australian Curling Federation.
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The appointment will see Krawczyk roll out and embed each organisation’s National Integrity Framework to their respective community.
President Peggy O’Neal to Chair Commonwealth Games planning committee
Peggy O’Neal, the first woman to serve as a President of an AFL club, is set to take up a new role overseeing the delivery of the Victorian Commonwealth Games. O’Neal, who is scheduled to step down from her Presidency of AFL club Richmond after a successful 10-year term in December, has been announced as Chair of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
O’Neal will head a committee tasked with organising the 2026 Games across Victoria in a decentralised format, spread out across the regional hubs of Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat and Gippsland and with its opening ceremony to be held at the MCG.
New appointments for Western Australian Institute of Sport Board
Seven appointments have been made to the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) Board with world champion swimmer Priya Cooper (pictured) taking on the role of Chairperson.
Three board members have been re-appointed and four new appointments have been made with all members bringing a wealth of expertise and experience to the roles.
The new members are Priya Cooper, Dr Rishelle Hume, Professor Robert Grove and Stuart Reside.
The re-appointed members are Matthew Beevers, Josie Janz-Dawson and (Charles) Leigh Robinson.
They join current members with ongoing terms in place: Fiona Pixley and Amanda Cox.
MKTG expands its team
MKTG Sports + Entertainment, part of dentsu Sports International has expanded its team with several key hires: Hugh Rogan as Sponsorship Account Director, Sara Farr as Business Project Director, Jess Surkitt as Senior Event Production Manager, Jeff Leong as Sponsorship Manager, Chris Anderson as Motion Graphics Artist, Jai Lockwood as the Commercial Team Coordinator, Kelvin Giraldo as Content Coordinator, and Bianca Gerin and Taylah Gillis as Multiskilled Technical Operators.
The agency also announced the promotion of Martin Ansell to Strategy and Insights Director.
Greg Yong named Ardent Leisure Chief Executive
Ardent Leisure has announced the promotion of its theme parks division Chief Executive Greg Yong to the role of Group Chief Executive.
The move follows the group revealing higher revenues for the 2021/22 financial year and that it is now debt free following the sale of its US-based Main Event business.
After more than a decade of championing Australia’s sports technology industry, the Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) has announced that founding Chair James Demetriou has stepped down from the role.
Among several changes to its executive leadership team, Demetriou will take on the role of ASTN’s Executive Director of Commercialisation and Partnerships for the next three years, with current Board Member Dr Martin Schlegel stepping into the role of Chair while Jasmine Lim will become Deputy Chair.
Established to play a leadership role in the development of Australian-inspired sports technologies in 2012, ASTN became one of the first coordinated sports tech ‘eco-systems’ or ‘super-cluster’ initiatives globally.
A decade on and ASTN is at the centre of Australia’s booming sports tech industry which has grown by more than 170% to almost $3.1 billion revenue annually.
VMA announces 2022 student scholarship winners
The Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) has announced Claire Wardley (pictured below right) and Emma Walker as winners of scholarships to attend the annual Venue Management School or VMA Leadership Institute in 2022.
Through its industry partnerships with Ungerboeck and Event Health Management, the VMA provides two scholarships for students to attend its management development programs, with each scholarship created to reflect and reward the applicants’ great work across several key themes that translated into everyday actions.
