86 AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 OUR ORGANISATION Board and committees Board appointments The ASC Board is the accountable authority under the PGPA Act. The ASC Act provides for between eight and thirteen Board members, appointed by the responsible Minister, including an ex-officio Commissioner representing the Department embracing the Federal Sport Portfolio. Alisa Camplin-Warner was appointed as Deputy Chair on 27 June 2017 following the resignation of Mr Mark Stockwell as Deputy Chair and Commissioner on 2 March 2017. During 2016–17 Mr John Wylie was re-appointed as Chair until November 2020 and Mr Pat Farmer had his term extended until February 2020. Consistent with the ASC’s focus on increasing female representation on sporting boards, four of the nine current ASC Commissioners are women. Board members Mr John Wylie am — Chair John Wylie is principal of investment firm Tanarra Group and was previously CEO of the Australian business of global financial services firm Lazard. He co‑founded advisory and investment firm Carnegie Wylie & Company in 2000 which was acquired by Lazard in 2007, and before that 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 30 years. Mr Wylie is president of the Library Board of Victoria, a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust at Oxford University, and a Director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash League cricket team. He was formerly chair of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, and in that role chaired the MCG Redevelopment Steering Committee for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 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 is an active sports participant, especially running and cycling, and is an accredited junior cricket coach. A personal sporting highlight was running the New York City Marathon in 2000 in three hours 20 minutes. Mr Wylie was appointed as ASC Chair in September 2012 and was reappointed to that role in 2015 and again in 2017 for a further three-year term to 2020. He is also Chair of the ASC Governance and Executive Performance Committee.