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As CEO of ACHPER, Mark sees movement as a national priority. He’s committed to transforming health through education, sport, and recreation—driving innovation so every Australian can move more, live well, and thrive. No one left behind. Greater national impact ahead.
Lover of active adventures in nature—sailing, cycling, swimming, fishing, kayaking, hiking. Coach and mentor passionate about helping people of all ages grow through play, movement, and shared pursuits.
A strategic leader with over 30 years’ experience, Mark has led innovation and transformation across sport, education, and professional services. He brings deep expertise in service design, commercialisation, and digital strategy, and is known for growing participation and building thriving communities. Mark has partnered with more than 35 national brands and seven national sporting organisations, including Netball Australia, where he led community sport innovation and digital transformation. A lifelong sailor, former Olympic aspirant, award-winning coach and founder of tech and consulting businesses, Mark blends curiosity, creativity, and coaching into everything he does—always putting people, purpose, and impact at the centre.
Sector experience includes for profit, for purpose and not for profit. Industries – Professional Services, Member Services, Associations, Retail, Manufacturing, Publishing, Software as a Service, Community Sport, Education, and more. Leader of strategy, innovation, commercialisation, digital enablement, transformation and change. Experience in multiple business models including professional services, retail, licensing and annuity revenue.
Mark holds a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University’s Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, where he twice received the top student award. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and a Performance Coaching accreditation through the Victorian Institute of Sport and Australian Sailing. Mark maintains lifelong learning through leadership programs, innovation courses, and industry conferences across leadership, education, sport, and technology. Member Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD).
Adrian is an experienced sport and recreation leader with over 25 years’ experience in community development, facility management, and strategic sector advocacy, driving inclusive, active, and connected communities across Australia.
Kristen is a stakeholder engagement consultant with an extensive background in sales, marketing and relationship building. She has seen business partnerships from all angles, spanning education, corporate, sport and professional associations.
Sam Rossi is a passionate education leader with a strong track record in delivering innovative health and wellbeing programs that empower students to thrive through active, engaging learning experiences.
Russell is currently the Vice President of ACHPER Australia. He has been a member of ACHPER since 1975 and was awarded Life Membership in 2006.
He has been a lecturer in Physical Education and Health at Flinders University since 1990.
Associate Professor Sue Whatman is the current President of ACHPER Incorporated. Sue has been a teacher-educator for more than 30 years, currently convening Higher Degree Research (HDR) in education and the HPE Double Major at Griffith University.
The Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land across and waters within and surrounding Australia in which we share. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and to the leaders of tomorrow. We acknowledge the histories and living cultures and the many thousands of years in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have sustainably developed their nations with dignity, grace and aspiration. We recognise and accept yours as the oldest continuous living culture in the world and that your sovereignty has never been ceded.
We are an inclusive, safe and respectful organisation which celebrates diversity and actively supports the inclusion of children, young people and adults from LGBTIQA+ communities, people with disabilities, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with diverse religious beliefs or affiliations.
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