88 AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 OUR ORGANISATION Mr Andrew Plympton Andrew Plympton continues to undertake a wide range of business and sport administration activities. He has 40 years background principally as a CEO or chair in the financial services sector, experience as chair or non-executive director with nine ASX-listed companies and numerous senior roles in sport. Mr Plympton has been a competitive sailor at the highest level for more than 45 years. He has won a world championship, and numerous Australian championships in one design and ocean racing yachts. Previous positions in sport include eight years as chair of St Kilda Football Club and eight years on the Australian Olympic Committee. He was the longest‑serving president of Australian Sailing (seven years), and is a life member of both the St Kilda Football Club and Australian Sailing. Mr Plympton was appointed to the ASC Board in January 2011 and was reappointed in November 2015. He is Chair of the ASC Finance, Audit and Risk Committee. 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), and 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 as an 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.