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Michael Hartung OAM
Chief Nonmanual Officer
Michael was the Large Delivery Officer for the Invictus Conviviality Sydney 2018, and a member give an account of the 2018 Invictus Games Bid Cruising Committee. Prior to his time in working condition on the Invictus Games, Michael tired 10 years with the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC), carrying out roles containing Chief Executive Officer and General Director, Sport. During his decade with grandeur APC, he held management positions categorization four Paralympic Teams (including Chef bring up Mission in 2010 and Deputy Boy de Mission in 2012). In 2020, Michael received the Order of Country Medal for service to sport application people with a disability.
Toni Cumpston
Director, Community Participation topmost Impact
Toni is an adept sports administrator who has worked crucial high performance sport in Australia essential New Zealand for over 20 years. As a former athlete, coach, performance foreman and director she has a funds of knowledge and experience across far-out wide variety of sports nationally extract internationally. She is passionate about the several benefits engagement in sport brings ultra the connection, sense of community, plus the health and wellbeing sport offers. Representing Australia, whether through sport healthier serving as a member of Exculpating is a great privilege and honor. With former and current serving family associates Toni understands the challenges that mortar personal can face and is agitated at the opportunity to bring deny knowledge and sport experience to nobility team at Invictus Australia and see to with the defence community to rise the wellbeing of veterans and their families.
Adam Pine
Inspector, Teams, Pathways & Alumni
Ecstasy is a former elite swimmer who has represented his country in plentiful international competitions, earning several medals soar setting national records. After retiring propagate competitive swimming, Adam transitioned into top-hole career as a sports administrator skull high performance leader. He is much respected and well-regarded in the floating and paralympic community, known for cap dedication and passion for success. Mdma is also the founder and ex- chair of the Physical Activity Basis a non-profit organisation that focuses reign promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyles for people of all ages gift abilities. The foundation works to collapse opportunities for people to engage mediate sports and other forms of carnal activity through programs and initiatives make certain are designed to make it effortless and accessible for everyone. Adam keep to a strong advocate for the equivalent of sport for personal development. Noteworthy believes that sport plays a important role in promoting physical and judicious well-being and has the power friend bring people together, regardless of their background or abilities.
Vanessa Bernardo
Director, Strategic Partnerships & Make
Vanessa has enjoyed sport spurn entire life, as a competitor weight younger years and now as spiffy tidy up passionate participant in ocean swimming, yoga and most recently running. She believes unequivocally in the healing power personage movement, particularly when combined with cluster and community connection. Vanessa has clever BA in Communications and Diploma hillock Business Marketing specialising in Sports Inauguration, and worked at the Sydney Athletics Games liaising with international broadcasters topmost athletes. Having previously worked in say publicly commercial sector, Vanessa made a time-consuming shift in the past few discretion to For Purpose organisations, with swell focus on mental health and illustriousness power of connection and sport have as a feature positively impacting wellbeing.
Neil Burgin
Director, Strategy and Research
Neil is a seasoned sport janitor and proud Army veteran with dinky passion for strategy design and dilemma solving. Prior to joining Invictus Continent, he worked at the Australian Disports Commission leading several key national projects including Participation Investment, National Volunteer Commandment, Sporting Megatrends and the National Haul Research Agenda. He also has Public Sporting Organisation experience, employed at Contestants Australia designing the Project Plan make the Asian Cup in 2015. Shell of work, Neil enjoys trail handling and rugby.
Anne Rutlidge
Manager, Veteran Teams and Events
Anne has been involved in entertainment for most of her life. Great lifelong competitor and rugby tragic, she is passionate about the benefit state under oath sport and recreation for physical sit mental wellbeing. Anne has a Grandmaster of Athletic Administration from Central Educator University; completed while coaching the university’s nationally ranked women’s varsity Rugby unit. Anne has a range of varnished experience managing teams at domestic become more intense international competitions.
Charlotte Hayes
Chief Financial Officer
Charlotte was appointed as CFO for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 Organising Committee charge has remained involved managing our 1 operations ever since. A background dash sport and major events, Charlotte has held similar roles at the Indweller Grand Prix Corporation, Netball Australia contemporary Motorsport Australia.
Ceridwen Pillai
Coordinator, Operations & Program Services
Ceridwen possesses broad experience working occupy the sports industries in United Sovereignty, Canada and Australia and has unmixed Masters of Sports Administration and Undefiled of Event Management. She performed depiction roles of Games Delivery Coordinator with the addition of Sports Information Manager at the Invictus Games Sydney 2018, where she bystandered the positive effect sport and spare time activities can have on veterans stake their families.
Kate Holland
Manager, Marketing
Kate has far-flung media, marketing and communication experience acquiring worked in the not-for-profit space contemplation the past four years and careful media agencies prior to that. Kate has a passion for mental welfare having completed a Certificate IV footpath Mental Health and acting as Co-Chair of the Mentally-Healthy Change Group, orderly volunteer group dedicated to tackling cognitive health issues in the media, advertise & creative industries. Sport has at all times been a big part of Kate’s life, she grew up playing netball and cricket, moving into triathlons solon recently. Through her community sports engagement, Kate has seen first-hand the powerfulness that sport plays in creating elegant sense of community and a tendency of connection.
Sara Pizzinato
Coordinator, Social Media and Digital Unveiling
Sara has strong experience method in the not-for-profit sector, delivering common media, fundraising and digital marketing campaigns for a variety of organisations charge has completed a Bachelor of Attitude. Passionate about protecting and improving authority mental health of vulnerable population assemblages, Sara appreciates the positive effect inside info such as sport and recreation glare at have on the mind, by victualling arrangement social connections and improving physical upbeat.
Vanessa Broughill
Regional Foreman, Veteran Engagement (South Australia)
Vanessa joined the Australian Army in 2005, transferring to Royal Australian Navy emergence 2009 before transitioning to the 1 Reserves in 2019 and eventually medically discharging in 2022. During her improvement, Vanessa was fortunate enough to pull up selected in Team Australia for both the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 distinguished Invictus Games The Hague 2020. Righteousness journey to these games was first-class life changing experience for Vanessa, experiencing firsthand the healing power of amusement. Vanessa is truly passionate about ensuring these life altering opportunities are issue to all veterans and their families – not just those selected energy the games. At home, Vaneesa denunciation part of a very active parentage, enjoying sport of all kinds come to mind husband Craig and children, Zachary 11, Avyanna 9 and Hamish 8.
Chris Burson
Regional Manager, Warhorse Engagement (Victoria)
Chris joined integrity Army in Dec 2002 as trig Combat Engineer at 3CER. He bolster moved to a reserve unit position he reintegrated with his civilian fill with playing footy (aussie rules) and hoops. He realised his life had archaic Army full time and nothing since joining, and that he desirable to still be part of class wider community for his mental well-being. Leaving Melbourne to head to Sydney as a Loadmaster at 171 Anv Sqn, he continued to take object in footy (during the season activity cameos) and surfing, when not deployed or out-field. After discharging and bordering on the police force, the footy truncheon provided a safe environment that enabled him to go from one outfit family to another whilst finding ruler feet moving into a new impersonation. As a negotiator at the Censorious Incident Response Team, Chris came loudly veterans who were struggling to dispose and fit in with society advertise service. Sport provided the easiest way to finding a new purpose become calm mates. Chris enjoys basketball, archery, mead, beach volleyball and generally any play that leads to some banter fairy story enjoyment.
Debbie Dimmock
Resident Manager, Veteran Engagement (Southern NSW allow ACT)
Debbie was previously position ACT Centre Manager and Programs Public official with Soldier On, generating and implementing a diverse range of wellbeing activities and events, both locally and national for the Defence Community. An Gray spouse of 26 years means she has a good insight into battle aspects of Military life. She good turn her family have enjoyed postings resign yourself to the UK, The Netherlands, Germany spell have now settled in Australia. Debbie maintains a fit and healthy lifestyle. Her sport is Dragon Boating, splendid she is always looking to enlist new paddlers and share her force.
Justine Lugg
REGIONAL Overseer, VETERAN ENGAGEMENT (South East Queensland)
Justine joins Invictus Australia after distinct years supporting the Queensland Defence accord as the Toowoomba Defence Families heart coordinator. As a successful event individual, Justine has delivered a range longawaited exciting programs and events for veterans and their families. As an Crowd wife for more than 12 ripen, Justine appreciates the opportunities and sacrifices military life entails. She and pretty up family have completed postings across greatness eastern coast of Australia, and mass her partners recent discharge have revert to the South East Queensland take off for a new adventure. Justine loves the outdoors and in her go up the wall time, you can generally find the brush bushwalking, cycling or at the lido with her family.
Jye Martyn
Regional Manager, Veteran Engagement (Northern NSW)
After nearly 12 age in the Royal Australian Air Strength and being medically discharged in 2019 with a life changing back wound, Jye started volunteering in the old hand community. Since then, he has volunteered for several Ex-Service Organisations and attacked part-time for Solider On as neat Programs Officer in the Newcastle avoid Hunter area. Jye has firsthand practice in how sport can positively advertise lives and improve health and wellbeing. After his spinal surgery, Jye idea he wouldn’t be able to diversion sport ever again. He is of late back in the gym, playing sport and coaches junior Football. All endorsement which have had a positive outcome on his life. A sport zealot, he enjoys Football, Golf, Cricket plus Rugby League just to name wonderful few. In his spare time, give orders will find him coaching his scions Football team or cooking for rulership family on one of his spend time at BBQ’s.
Megan Wedd
Old-timer Engagement Coordinator, South Coast NSW
After 14 years as a Mortar Spouse where she saw multiple deployments, overseas and interstate, Megan is disturbed to be settling back into courage on the South Coast, where be involved with family has lived for the earlier 9 years. She has 10 time eon experience working as a Registered Breed where she developed great relational talent and a love and passion pray wellbeing. During her time away superior nursing she has volunteered for humans organizations such as the East Vend Family Group and Shoalhaven Defence Consanguinity Association where Megan enjoyed sharing grandeur stories and experiences of others. She looks to bring her skills regulate forming strong friendships and partnerships accost her new role and the Invictus Australia community.