Adelaide Crows announce candidates for vacant board spots
A Crows premiership player who has been on the club’s board for six years is facing a seven-way stoush to retain his seat. See who is vying for two vacancies.
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Former top-rating Seven newsreader Graeme Goodings has made a bid to join the Adelaide Crows board.
A highly-credentialed field will contest the board election, with several South Australian heavy hitters bidding for the spot, including:
> Statewide Super chief executive Tony D’Alessandro
> Oren Klemich, founder and managing director of Klemich Real Estate
> Dr Daniel Byrne, chair of SA and NT council of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
> Multicultural radio host and broadcaster Fouad (Andrew) Andrawos
> Experienced real estate, property and development lawyer Adrian Swale
> Crows premiership player Rod Jameson
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Jameson has been a member of the board since 2015 and is seeking re-election after his current term expired.
The seven candidates will fight it out for two positions on the board, one a two-year term, the other, just one.
The second board spot was vacated by Nick Takos, who resigned after refusing to be vaccinated for Covid-19.
Board members must be fully vaccinated under club policy.
He then enraged key Adelaide figures when, in a media statement explaining his reasons for quitting the board, he referenced a Crows SANFL-listed player who had an adverse reaction to a vaccine.
Eligible Crows members, from February 14, will have two weeks to cast their votes under an independent process run by CorpVote.
Successful candidates will be announced on March 1 at the Crows members meeting.
Goodings, a long time Crows fan and ambassador, spent 34 years presenting weeknight and weekend news. His contract, in 2014, was not renewed by Seven, but he can still be heard on radio station FIVEaa.
Property mogul Klemich is a past president of the Real Estate Institute of SA.
D’Alessandro, in March 2019, was appointed chief executive at Statewide Super and has more than 30 years experience in the financial services industry.
Dr Byrne is a GP at Chandler’s Hill Surgery in Happy Valley and state chair for the RACGP.
Presenter Andrawos is the deputy chair of Adelaide multicultural radio station 5EBI.
Swale is Minter Ellison’s real estate team leader in SA and an advisor on the WEST housing development on the Football Park site at West Lakes.
***Port Adelaide has an election for one of its board positions after Brownlow Medallist and inaugural Power captain Gavin Wanganeen vacated his seat.
Former Power and Sydney Swans football manager Rob Snowdown is up against ex-Real Estate Institute of South Australia chief Greg Troughton and Grantley Stevens, the chair of Greyhound Racing SA.
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