Essendon CEO Xavier Campbell tapped for key AFL job
He helped mend fences after Essendon’s disastrous supplements scandal and put the club in a strong financial position. Now Xavier Campbell could be joining Gillon McLachlan in AFL HQ.
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Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell has been tapped for a plum job at AFL headquarters.
Campbell, who helped steer the Bombers through the ASADA drugs scandal, is being sought to fill a spot on Gillon McLachlan’s revamped executive team.
The league last week announced the creation of a new executive position “to drive the ongoing integration and redevelopment” of Marvel Stadium.
Campbell, 39, took control of Essendon in July 2014 after the departure of interim chief executive Ray Gunston.
Gunston, who has also since joined McLachlan’s executive team, replaced Ian Robson, forced out of the Bombers’ top job in mid-2013 amid fallout from the supplements saga.
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Campbell, a SANFL premiership player with Sturt, oversaw a strong recovery of the club’s financial position and helped mend relations between Essendon and the AFL after the Bombers were fined $2 million and banished from the 2013 finals.
He was named in the ASADA interim report, handed to the AFL in August 2013, for self-injecting the artificial tanning drug Melanotan II during the 2012 season while heading up the club’s marketing department.
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