Adrienne GREENWOOD

Personal Profile

Sailing Career

• Club Keelboat Racing in Farr 38 Class and Women's Twilight Series RNZYS, RAYC.
• Club Cruising in Family Farr 38 Keelboat RNZYS
• Family Representation in 1992 Olympic Games & 1986 America's Cup
  

Sailing Administration

• 1986 - 2000 - 14 Years Chief Executive Yachting New Zealand
• 1988 - 2000 - Olympic Selector and Organiser of 4 NZ Olympic Campaigns
• Organiser 4 Olympic Trial Series
• 1995 - 2000 - National Judge
• Organizing Committee of 3 World 470 Championships - Youth / Women's / Worlds 1984/85
• Local Club Volunteer Junior Yacht Club [Kohimarama ] 11 years
• Race Management RNZYS
• Organiser of Guangzhou-Fukuoka-NZ Junior Development Friendship Regattas 1989,1993

Other Sports Administration

• Member NZ Sports Tribunal, 2003-2008. The tribunal adjudicates on drug violations, selection disputes, general sports disputes and appeals across all sports. Members appointed by Govt Minister.
• Board member of Northern Mystics Netball Franchise 2008. The Northern Mystics Team competes in the semi professional Australia /NZ Trans Tasman Netball Championship.
• Representative for Yachting on NZ Olympic Committee during period as CEO of YNZ-1985-2000
• Golf Club Committee Member. Current

Roles within ISAF

• 2004 - 2008 - Chair of the Women's Sailing Committee
• 2000 - 2008 - Women's Sailing Committee. Working Party on Women's Representation
• 1998 - 2008 - Member Events Committee & various Events Committee Working Parties.
• 2004 - 2008 - Member World Youth Sailing Trust
• Women's Forum
  

Other significant experiences

• University Educated - Major in Political Studies, University of Auckland 1984
• 2000 - 2003 - Managing Director Family Retail Business 3 years
• Keen golfer & skier
  

Goals

My overall goals if elected a Vice-President will be to;

• Work in a co-operative and collaborative way with the President and my fellow Vice-Presidents to meet the objectives of the strategic plan, and any policies from time to time decided by Council and Committees.
• Seek open, clear, communication within ISAF to help the decision making process.
• Clearly define issues arising from meeting discussion, to ensure they are understood by members
• Build good person to person relationships both inside and outside of ISAF
• Support women within ISAF and women's sailing generally to ensure the work begun under the Women's Sailing Committee is not lost.
• Help progress sailing as an attractive, cohesive and globally thriving activity for both male and female sailors.
• Have an open mind on future opportunities for sailing and
• Generally bring my wider sports administrative experience to the table