Board & Committees

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. He has a reputation for delivering outcomes and working collaboratively with teams to help them achieve their objectives and manage risk.

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

Jessica is a Canberra-based senior people and operations executive with extensive leadership experience across consulting and professional services. She is recognised for her expertise in organisational capability, workforce strategy, and operational leadership, bringing a strong people-focused approach to governance and organisational growth.

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.

Worked in finance for over 30 years with the last 10 years being CFO at the ACCC. Previously served on the Capital Football Board for approximately 13 years. Has also been an independent member of the Audit Committee at the Clean Energy Regulator.