Board members

John Wylie

Mr John Wylie AM - Chair

John Wylie is principal of investment firm Tanarra Group. He was previously CEO of the Australian business of global financial services firm Lazard; co-founded advisory and investment firm Carnegie Wylie & Company in 2000 which was acquired by Lazard in 2007; and was chair of investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston in Australia. In these roles, Mr Wylie has advised companies and governments globally for more than 25 years.

In addition to his role at the ASC, Mr Wylie is president of the Library Board of Victoria, a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust at Oxford University, a director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash League cricket team, and a member of the Melbourne Grammar School Finance Committee. He was formerly chairman of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, and in that role chaired the MCG Redevelopment Steering Committee for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He is a former board member and Honorary Treasurer of the Howard Florey Institute for Neuroscience and a former director of CSR Limited.

Mr Wylie holds a Master of Philosophy degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007.

He was appointed to the ASC Board on 10 September 2012 and is also Chair of the ASC Governance and Executive Performance Committee.

Mark Stockwell

Mr Mark Stockwell - Deputy Chair

Mark Stockwell is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimming medallist. He was also an AIS scholarship holder from 1982–84 and in 1987. Mr Stockwell studied engineering and commerce at the University of Queensland, and economics at the Australian National University.

After his retirement from swimming in 1992, Mr Stockwell joined the business established by his parents Bill and Necia Stockwell. As managing director, Mr Stockwell has seen the company diversify as an investor, developer, builder, project manager and property manager of industrial, retail, commercial, residential and leisure developments.

Mr Stockwell is a former president of the Property Council of Australia, Queensland Division, and served on the national board for two years. Mr Stockwell was also previously the chairman of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.

Mr Stockwell is Chairman of Trade and Investment Queensland, the Queensland Government’s export and foreign investment agency which assists international companies to invest in Queensland and local businesses to expand into new markets. Mr Stockwell is also a trustee of the Stockwell Foundation.

Mr Stockwell was appointed to the ASC Board and as the Chair of the Australian Sports Foundation in June 2014. On 18 January 2015 Mr Stockwell was appointed Deputy Chair of the ASC Board.

Alisa Camplin

Ms Alisa Camplin-Warner OAM

Alisa Camplin-Warner represented Australia in freestyle aerial skiing at two consecutive Winter Olympic Games, winning gold in Salt Lake City in 2002 and bronze in Turin in 2006, where she was Australia’s flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony. She was also the Australian Olympic Committee chef de mission for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

Ms Camplin-Warner worked globally with the IBM Corporation for 16 years, most recently holding the position of strategy and transformation executive, Global Technology Services. She is currently a non-executive director of the Collingwood Football Club, Royal Children's Hospital Foundation and the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia. Ms Camplin was also chair of the Australian Sports Foundation from 2009 to 2014. Ms Camplin-Warner holds a Bachelor of Information Technology with a Business Major. She is a high performance consultant, regular keynote speaker, sports commentator and co-founder of the charity Finnan’s Gift.

Ms Camplin-Warner was appointed to the ASC Board on 23 March 2007 and is a member of the Governance and Executive Performance Committee.

The Honourable Patrcik Farmer

The Hon. Pat Farmer AM

Patrick Farmer is a multiple world-record holder for endurance running. He has run from the North Pole to the South, and across Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and North America. Mr Farmer served as a Member of Australia’s Parliament for eight years, with three years as parliamentary secretary for Education, Science and Training.

Mr Farmer has raised millions of dollars for causes during his 20-year running career, including Lifeline, Cancer Council, Australian Red Cross and Diabetes Australia. He received the 2000 Achiever of the Year award from Prime Minister John Howard.

Mr Farmer was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015 for significant service to the community through fundraising support for charitable organisations, to ultra-marathons and to Parliament in Australia.

Mr Farmer was appointed to the Board on 7 November 2014.

Andrew Plympton

Mr Andrew Plympton

Andrew Plympton has a lifelong passion for sport, particularly sailing, where he has been competing at the highest level for more than 45 years. He has won a world championship and numerous national and state titles in international classes and ocean racing yachts.

Mr Plympton has held a number of positions in sport administration, including chairman/president for AFL club St Kilda for eight years before retiring in 2000. He was the president of Yachting Australia for more than seven years and was elected to the Australian Olympic Committee in 2008. He is currently a director of the Australian Olympic Foundation Limited and is a member of the Audit Committee. He is Chairman of three ASX listed companies, a director of one, and director of an NZX company.

Mr Plympton was appointed to the ASC Board in January 2011 and was reappointed in November 2015. Andrew is the Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.

Ms Katherine Bates

Ms Katherine Bates

Katherine Bates is a renowned international cyclist who represented Australia at the highest levels of road and track cycling. She now works in broadcasting and maintains a close involvement with the cycling community at the grass-roots and elite levels. Ms Bates has a Bachelor of Business (Accounting). Katherine has sat on a number of boards including Bicycle NSW, Cycling Australia Women’s Commission and the Cycling Australia Athletes Commission.

On her retirement from professional cycling at the end of the 2011 season, Ms Bates turned her passion and knowledge of sport into a new career, and is regularly seen on Australia’s major networks including Channel 7, 9, ABC, SBS and Fox Sports News.

In addition to her broadcasting duties, Ms Bates is highly sought as a motivational speaker, and executive coach where she applies the lessons and experience of elite sport to facilitate leadership development in the corporate environment.

Ms Bates was appointed to the Board on 22 June 2015 and is the member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.

Steve Moneghetti

Mr Stephen Moneghetti AM

Steve Moneghetti represented Australia in the marathon at four Commonwealth Games, winning gold (1994), silver (1990) and two bronze (1986 and 1998) medals. Mr Moneghetti achieved three top 10 finishes in his four appearances at the Olympic Games (1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000). He also attended six World Athletics Championships, winning a Bronze medal in the marathon event in Athens in 1997.

Mr Moneghetti was Mayor of the Commonwealth Games Village at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and the Australian team's Chef de Mission for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. From 2001–2010 he served as Chair for the Victorian Institute of Sport, and he also chaired the Victorian State Review into Physical and Sport Education in schools (the Moneghetti Report).

Mr Moneghetti is active in the corporate community and is currently a sports consultant with his own business. He is also on the executive board of the Victorian Olympic Council.

Mr Moneghetti received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and a Centenary Medal in 2001. In 2014 Mr Moneghetti was awarded an Order of Australia medal for significant service to athletics as a marathon runner, administrator and mentor to young athletes.

Mr Moneghetti was appointed to the Board on 22 June 2015 and is a member of the Governance and Executive Performance Committee.

Ms Jennifer Morris

Ms Jennifer Morris OAM

Jennifer Morris is a dual Olympic gold medallist, having represented Australia in hockey from 1991 to 2000, winning gold in Atlanta 1996 Olympics and then leading the Hockeyroos to victory at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Ms Morris is the Consulting Human Capital Partner at Deloitte in Perth. She has more than 12 years of experience and works across the public sector and higher education environments.

In addition to her current business career, she is a former director of the Fremantle Football Club, a former board member of the Western Australian Institute of Sport and the immediate past Chairperson of the Board of Healthway, the government’s peak health promotion body. 

Ms Morris won the National Deloitte Businesswoman of the Year 2007.

Ms Morris was appointed to the Board on 22 June 2015 and is a member of the Governance and Executive Performance Committee.

Ms Danielle Roche

Ms Danielle Roche OAM

Danielle Roche is a former field hockey player who played for the Hockeyroos at the peak of their success when they won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Ms Roche holds a Master of Business Administration and has served as a Director with Hockey Australia and is a current Director with the St Kilda Football Club. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1997 for her service to sport.

Ms Roche is an investment advisor with Ord Minnett and has held finance and commercial positions with Telstra; has been a Director at global financial services company UBS; a Partner at Evans and Partners; and a Director of a privately owned fraud and risk management business.

Ms Roche was appointed to the ASC Board on 4 May 2016.

John Lee

Mr John Lee

(appointment ceased 22 September 2015)

John Lee is Chief Executive Officer of the Sydney Roosters overseeing all commercial, administrative and football operations of one of the sport’s oldest and most successful clubs in Australia.

Previously he was head of the NSW Public Service as director general of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Before this he was head of the Department of Transport, Commerce and State Transit Authority.

Mr Lee has extensive experience in governance having served on the Advertising Standards Board, Events NSW Board, North Queensland Cowboys Board, Parramatta Stadium Trust Board, Mary MacKillop Board and served as president of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (NSW Branch).

Mr Lee was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2011 and was a member of the ASC Governance and Executive Performance Committee.

Martin Bowles

Martin Bowles PSM (Ex-officio)

Martin Bowles was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Health on 13 October 2014.

Previously Mr Bowles was the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, overseeing the management of migration, humanitarian, citizenship and visa policy and program, managing the lawful entry, stay and departure of people crossing the Australian border and managing the Immigration Detention network and regional processing centres.

Mr Bowles previously held the positions of Deputy Secretary in the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the Department of Defence.

In 2012 Mr Bowles received a Public Service Medal for delivering highly successful energy efficiency policies and remediation programs for the Home Insulation and Green Loans programs.

Prior to joining the Commonwealth Mr Bowles held senior executive positions in the education and health portfolios in the Queensland and New South Wales public sector.

Mr Bowles has a Bachelor of Business degree, a Graduate Certificate of Public Sector Management and is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants.