Interesting that Raelene Castle's name bobs up in light of this article I read about a week back. For those who don't know of her, Raelene is a past CEO of Netball NZ a post she held for 6 years. She has done a great job as CEO at the Canterbury Bulldogs but has decided to finish at the end of this year. The Bulldogs have always been a strongly board driven club and her resignation is for reasons of operational protocol, she is a more than capable CEO. Chairman Ray Dib is a very hands-on operator and tends step into areas that a CEO would normally be handling. How this would work at the ARU could also be problematic if the current chairman remains.
Roy Masters is a true journalist who doesn't invent stories. A family trait. Could there be a fire underneath this smoke?
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/un...08-gwnaav.html
ARU's lost sponsorship could trigger boardroom change
Roy Masters
The withdrawal of a key Australian Rugby Union sponsorship may be the trigger for a palace revolt at the code's troubled headquarters, with a possible outcome that an Australian football code will have a female leader for the first time.
The decision by Buildcorp to cancel a million-dollar naming rights sponsorship of the code's key pathways competition, the National Rugby Championship, will destabilise the leadership of chief executive Bill Pulver and chairman Cameron Clyne who are already under siege for the painful delay in announcing which Super Rugby team, the Western Force or the Melbourne Rebels, will be cut from the 18-team SANZAAR competition.
Buildcorp's co-chair is Josephine Sukkar who is also a member of the powerful ARU board nomination committee, the body which assesses the credentials for those who stand for election on the peak body of the sport. The ARU has three female directors, Ann Sherry, Elizabeth Broderick and Pip Marlow, all prominent in business and social equity forums.