Board & Committees

Angelo has lived and breathed football for the past 35+ years. He is a 250+ game veteran of the ACT Premier League, and also playing in the old NSL with the Canberra Cosmos. He also captained the first ACT Team to reach a Semi Final of the FFA Cup (now Australia Cup) against Sydney FC. He has also represented the ACT in Futsal, and his country as a long term member of the Futsalroos playing his first senior game in 1999. In 2016 he travelled with the Futsalroos to the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Columbia.

Elizabeth (Libby) Hovasapian is a CPA, CA, Registered Company Auditor and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has run her own Public Practice Accounting firm and Audit firm, both as sole trader and in partnership in the Canberra region for nearly 20 years. Libby has been involved in the Football Community, both as a former volunteer on Club committees and has played as a Masters Player. 

Involved in Football for more than 30 years, Gary Vandeburgt has experience as a player, referee, club and media official and competition administrator.

Kim works within EY’s Health and Human Services team, and although now well established in the corporate world, her initial career was as a Sports Physiotherapist. For over 20 years Kim worked across a range of sports developing performance-focused, evidence-based rehabilitation programs for some of the world’s best athletes including Australian and international professional footballers.

Sarah is a Barrister at the ACT Bar, accepting briefs in criminal, family, and public law matters, and appearing in ACT, NSW and Federal courts. Sarah also has a passion for community sport, not only playing, but contributing to administration roles particularly on legal and governance matters. She has played football in Canberra for over a decade across a number of different clubs.

Steve is an experienced football administrator, company director and corporate consultant. Steve combines his wealth of knowledge as a former player, current coach and past club President with his professional interests in the environment, governance, strategy and planning to offer a practical and unique perspective to make football better.

Adrian is a Chartered Accountant with a broad range of experience in assurance and consulting assignments across the public and private sectors. His experience includes financial viability reviews, financial management, governance advice, program and project assurance, control assessments, compliance management and frameworks, operational audits, performance improvement, budgeting and forecast reviews and commercial negotiation support.

Adrian has a reputation for delivering outcomes and working collaboratively with teams to help them achieve their objectives and manage risk. Adrian is a founding Managing Director with Scyne Advisory and spent over 20 years with PwC previously, with almost 10 as a partner.

Adrian recently retired from the board of Havelock Housing Association Ltd after being a director for over 10 years, the last 5 years as Treasurer and chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. During this time Adrian oversaw the transformation of the Association’s financial health from sustained losses to an organisation with substantial reserves and adequate capital to invest in a new housing development, providing 10 affordable housing units in Canberra’s North. Throughout this time Havelock House also evolved from an Association to a Company limited by guarantee.

Relevant qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting), Australian National University
• Bachelor of Laws, Australian National University
• Graduate Diploma, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
• Fellow – Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
• Certified Internal Auditor, Institute of Internal Auditors
• Member, Risk Management Institute of Australia