Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 63, October 2014 | Page 18

MA:

Another of your earliest comments
after election was that the sport needs
business-minded people to run it, and that
politicians are not good at doing that. In
light of this, why has a CEO or business
manager not yet been appointed?
The ASA Constitution is very clear: The staff
are full-time, the President and Board are just
volunteers. The position that I was appointed
to is that of a politician in athletics, so there
are things that I cannot do, which need to be
done by an administrator. I have even refused
to sign a new sponsorship deal, because I
am not the CEO, and that sponsor is going to
report to the office, not to me. We are talking
about corporate governance and protocol, the
Board must separate ourselves from the daily
management. When you let pol