The Board

The Hon Warwick Smith AM - Chair

Warwick Smith is Chairman of ANZ Bank, NSW & ACT and Chairman, E*TRADE Australia Ltd. Within ANZ, Warwick is also Chairman of the Institutional Government Consultative Group and is an Executive Committee Member for the Institutional Leadership team.

Prior to joining ANZ, he was Executive Director of Macquarie Bank where he chaired the Investment Bank’s Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Technology (TMET) Group and was Global Head of Corporate Communications.

Following a legal career in Tasmania, Warwick spent 15 years in Federal Parliament as Minister for Family Services, Sport, Territories and Local Government, and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Shadow Portfolios in Communications, Energy, Science and Aboriginal Affairs, Privatisation and Leader of the House of Representatives.

Warwick is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Australian Capital Equity Pty Ltd (ACE), the private holding company of Seven Holding Groups Ltd. He is the Deputy Chair of the Asia Society of Australia, the inaugural Australian Business Member for BOAO Forum for Asia. He has previously served as Australia’s first Telecommunications Ombudsman and as National President of the Australia China Business Council and Chairman of The Global Foundation.

Warwick was awarded the Order of Australia in January 2008 in recognition of his service to the Parliament of Australia, to the telecommunications industry as a contributor to reform and debate within the sector, to the promotion of international trade and tourism, and to philanthropy through a range of charitable and community organisations.

Warwick was appointed to the ASC Board on 19 July 2010.


David Gallop - Deputy Chair

David Gallop has been Chief Executive Officer of the National Rugby League since February 2002. Under his direction, the game has gained increased financial stability at club level, closer on-field competition through effective policing of the salary cap, strong commercial growth and record attendance figures.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Australian National University and a law degree from the University of Sydney. After working as a solicitor at Holman Webb in Sydney he became the General Counsel for Super League at News Limited from 1995 to 1997.

At the inception of the National Rugby League in 1997 Mr Gallop commenced as Director of Legal and Business Affairs. Since then he has been closely involved in all key decisions involving the game and, in 1998, he was appointed Secretary of the Rugby League International Federation, a position he still retains.

In 2002, David was voted NSW Sports Administrator of the Year and, in 2006, was named Australian Sports Administrator of the Year at the Confederation of Australian Sport awards.

David was appointed to the ASC Board on 7 May 2008. He is a member of the ASC Audit Committee.


Glenys Beauchamp PSM, Ex-officio

Glenys Beauchamp was appointed Secretary, Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government on 21 December 2010.   Following machinery of government changes on 14 December 2011, Arts and Sport functions were included in the new Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.

Prior to this appointment she was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet oversighting the rollout of the infrastructure components of the Government’s Stimulus Plan.

Glenys has also served as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.  In this role, she was awarded the Public Service Medal for co-ordinating Australian Government support for the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

Glenys has also had significant experience across a range of social policy areas in the ACT Government.

In addition to an economics degree from the Australian National University, she has an MBA from the University of Canberra.


Alisa Camplin OAM

Alisa Camplin has worked with the IBM Corporation for 15 years and currently holds the position of Strategy Executive, Global Technology Services. She is currently a Director of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and Director of the Collingwood Football Club, and was a member of the Board of Melbourne's Methodist Ladies' College from 2005 to 2008. Ms Camplin is also Chef de Mission for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

Ms Camplin represented Australia in two consecutive Winter Olympic Games, winning gold in Salt Lake City in 2002 and bronze in Turin in 2006, and was Australia's opening ceremony flag bearer.

Ms Camplin was appointed as Director of the Board of the Australian Sports Foundation on 6 July 2007 and became Chair on 5 April 2010.

Ms Camplin was appointed to the ASC Board on 23 March 2007 and is also a member of the ASC Audit Committee.


Sally Carbon OAM

Sally Carbon, an Olympic and World Cup Gold Medallist, represented Australia in hockey at two Olympic Games, two World Cups and 125 internationals in her eight year international sporting career. She trained at the Western Australian Institute of Sport for 11 years and at the Australian Institute of Sport for nine years. Sally also represented WA in athletics.

She has served on the board of the Western Australia Sports Council and the Strategic Directions board for the WA Education Department. She continues to be an active member of many Western Australian sport, health and education boards and committees including WA’s High Performance Sport Committee, Vision for Committee for Perth and Aquinas College.

Sally has a Bachelor of Arts with Majors in Physical Education and Mathematics, a Certificate in Strategic Marketing, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She consults as a Communications and Marketing specialist, and has held high level Government positions in urban renewal and education. Sally owns a technology company, has published five books and is currently turning all of her sport material into interactive white board products for the school environment. Sally has had 22 years experience in the media, most of which has been in WA and Victoria.

On 7 May 2008, Sally was appointed to the ASC and Australian Sports Foundation Boards.


Liz Ellis AM

Liz Ellis is a former captain of the Australian national netball team. A three-time World Netball Champion (1995, 1999 and 2007) and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist (1998 and 2002), Liz is the most capped Australian netballer ever, and third most-capped netballer of all time, having represented Australia on 122 occasions. Liz is also the most successful leader in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, having captained the Sydney Swifts to four league titles in 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2007. In 2007, after leading Australia to win the Netball World Championship in Auckland, Liz retired from netball.

Holding a Bachelor of Arts/Law from Macquarie University, Liz was a practicing solicitor in property and infrastructure for four years. In 2000, realising that law was not her passion, she started her own business, conducting netball coaching clinics at various locations around New South Wales. Liz is an ambassador for Macquarie Sports, coaching netball at schools and clubs nationally.

Liz is a board member of the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the NSW Institute of Sport and the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre. She is a popular keynote speaker as well as a regular guest on radio and television programs.

Liz was appointed to the ASC Board on 7 May 2008. She is a member of the ASC Audit Committee.


Kyle Vander-Kuyp

Mr Vander-Kuyp is the fastest sprint hurdler in Australian history. Early in his career, Kyle won a bronze medal at the World Junior Athletics Championships. He went on to be part of the 4 x 100-metre relay team that won a silver medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, and he was a finalist in the 110-metre hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Kyle represented Australia at four Commonwealth Games, including the Melbourne 2006 Games, and four world championships, and is the current Australian record holder for the 110-metre and 60-metre hurdles and has been National Champion on 12 occasions.

He has received many honours, particularly for his contributions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sport. In 2003 he won the prestigious Charles Perkins Award.

Kyle spends a great deal of his time in ambassador and mentoring roles for both government and private enterprises, including:

  • Indigenous ambassador for the Australian Department of Human Services, working to build awareness of Government services
  • ambassador for the Red Dust Role Models program, delivering healthy lifestyle messages in remote Indigenous communities
  • Olympic ambassador for BHP Billiton, visiting communities all over Australia to promote Olympic values
  • mentor for Athletics Australia’s Jump Start to London 2012 program, helping to identify talented Indigenous athletes
  • ambassador for Elmore Oil’s Future Champions Program, to provide opportunities for disadvantaged young people.

Kyle was appointed to the ASC Board on 6 May 2008.


Margy Osmond

Margy Osmond

Margy Osmond is the inaugural CEO of the Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA). This organisation was established in 2006 as a lobby and research organisation to be the voice of Australia’s large national retailers. The ANRA Board is chaired by Katie Page (Harvey Norman CEO) and includes the CEOs of Coles, Woolworths, David Jones, Bunnings, Best & Less, Big W and Luxottica. Member companies of this organisation represent over 400,000 Australians employed in the retail sector.

Prior to this appointment Ms Osmond was the CEO of the State and Sydney Chambers of Commerce in NSW for five years and founder of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Commerce Centre and the Sydney First projects. Her Board appointments include the Bell Shakespeare Company and the NSW Major Events Board. Ms Osmond chaired the NSW bid for the 2009 World Masters Games and is now Chair of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee.

Her previous Board appointments include the NSW State Transit Authority, the NSW Policy Minister’s Advisory Board, Volunteers NSW and the NSW State Chamber of Commerce.

Margy was appointed to the Board on 6 November 2009.



Ann Sherry AO

Ann Sherry

Ann is CEO of Carnival Australia, the largest cruise ship operator in Australasia. Carnival Corporation is the world’s largest cruise ship operator and owns P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, Costa, Cunard, Holland America and Seabourn. She has transformed the industry and growth has more than doubled since 2007.

Prior to this, Ann was with Westpac for 12 years and was Chief Executive Officer, Westpac New Zealand, the CEO of the Bank of Melbourne and Group Executive, People & Performance. She was a driver of cultural change, community engagement and customer focus in commercial and retail banking.

Before joining Westpac, Ann was First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in Canberra, advising the Prime Minister on policies and programs to improve the status of women and was Australia’s representative to the United Nations forums on human rights and women’s rights.

In addition to her executive roles, Ann is a non-Executive Director of Wilson HTM Investment Group and Chair of the Queensland Public Service Commission. She is a Director of Jawun -
Indigenous Corporate Partnerships, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and a Member of the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum. She is Deputy Chair of the Tourism & Transport Forum.

Ann is a Fellow, Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and a Member of the Institute of Company Directors. In 2001, Ann was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian Government for her work on providing banking services to disadvantaged communities.

In January 2004 Ann was awarded an Order of Australia for her contribution to the Australian community through the promotion of corporate management policies and practices that embrace gender equity, social justice and work and family partnerships. In 2009, Ann was nominated as one of the Top 15 Women in Business in the world by the Business Women’s magazine, Pink.

Ann was appointed to the Board on 19 July 2010.


Mike Turtur OAM

Mike Turtur

Mike Turtur is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallist and Race Director of the Tour Down Under. 

Mike has competed at two Olympic Games and three Commonwealth Games, and from these has won a total of five medals.  At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics  he secured a gold medal in the Men’s 4000m Team Pursuit, after which he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his achievements. 

At the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, 1982 Mike won two gold medals in the Men’s 4000m Teams and Individual Pursuits and a bronze medal in the 10 Mile Scratch Race.  At the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, Mike was the flag bearer for Australia and won a gold medal in the Men’s 4000m Team Pursuit.

Following his cycling career Mike went on to share his knowledge and experience by becoming the South Australian Institute of Sport Cycling Coach for five years before becoming the manager and promoter of the Adelaide Super-Drome in 1993.

In 1998, Mike was appointed Race Director of the Tour Down Under, a role which he continues to date. The Tour Down Under has grown to become the biggest cycling race in the Southern Hemisphere and in 2008 became the first race outside Europe to join the prestigious UCI ProTour.

In 2008, Mike was elected the Oceania President of the UCI, the international cycling federation.  In the same year he was named South Australian of the Year.

Mike also owns a bike shop in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and runs a pizza bar when visiting his holiday home in Moonta.  He has also worked as a Channel 7 Sports commentator alongside the likes of ‘the voice of cycling’, Phil Liggett.

Mike was appointed to the Board on 19 July 2010.


Andrew Plympton

ASC Board Member Mr Andrew Plympton

Andrew Plympton continues to undertake a wide range of business and sport administration activities.  He is Chairman of four ASX listed Companies, a Director of one, an Advisory Board Director in Australia of one of the world’s largest financial services companies and the Chairman of three non listed companies in Australia and New Zealand.

 

Sport has been a lifelong passion for Andrew, particularly the sport of sailing where he has been competing at the highest level for over 45 years. He has been winner of one World championship and numerous National and State Titles in International Classes and ocean racing yachts.

 

Andrew has held many positions in sport administration. He was Chairman/President for AFL club St Kilda for eight years retiring in 2000 and was the club’s second longest serving President. Most recently he was the President of Yachting Australia, a position he held for over seven years.

 

In 2008 Andrew was elected to The Australian Olympic Committee. He was made a director of The Australian Olympic Foundation Limited and is a member of the Audit Committee.

 

Andrew was appointed to the ASC Board in January 2011.


Ken Ryan

ASC Board Member Ken Ryan

Ken Ryan is the Regional General Manager Victoria & Southern Australia for Qantas Airways based in Melbourne.

He has worked for Qantas for the past 15 years in a variety of senior management positions. These positions include:

5 years as Group General Manager, Marketing, during which the iconic  " I Still Call Australia Home " childrens commercial was developed, Head of Corporate Development, Regional General General, Manager South East Asia, Qantas & British Airways & Chief Executive, Jetstar Asia.    

Ken holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University and has recently been appointed as a Board Member of Victorian Major Events Corporation & Ambulance Victoria.

His sporting background includes selection in numerous schoolboy cricket & baseball representative teams as well as many years of grade cricket & baseball.


John Lee

Australian Sports Commission Board Member John Lee

John is currently the CEO of the Tourism and Transport Forum – Australia. Before this he has held a variety of positions in the NSW Public Sector including: Director General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Department of Commerce and Ministry for Transport. He was previously CEO of the NSW State Transit Authority and Managing Director of Westbus and National Bus Company.

His early career included teaching Physical and Health Education in Western Sydney as well as being a high performance coach in the NRL and Secretary of the Metropolitan Catholic Schools Sports Association.

He has served on a number of major event committees including Events NSW Board, Rugby World Cup 2003 and was head of Marketing and Communications for Railcorp in the lead-up to, during and following the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

His previous Board appointments include the Advertising Standards Board, Parramatta Stadium Trust, and Mary MacKillop Foundation.

John was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2011.


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