Gilbert Felli (Olympic Games Executive Director, IOC)

In March 2003, Gilbert Felli was appointed Olympic Games Executive Director. Mr Felli joined the IOC in 1990 as Director of the IOC Department of Sports, Olympic Games Coordination and Relations with International Federations.

He was a member of the Evaluation Commissions for the Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games from 2002 to 2016. Furthermore, he has been a member of the Olympic Games Coordination Commission since the Albertville Olympic Games and of the Youth Olympic Games Coordination Commission since the inaugural Singapore YOG in 2010.

He is currently Executive Director of the London, Sochi and Rio Coordination Commissions, the Innsbruck and Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Coordination Commissions as well as the Evaluation Commission for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. As the Olympic Games Executive Director, he is responsible for the running, coordination and follow-up of all Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games activities, from the candidature phase to the actual holding of the Games.

On many occasions, he has also been in a honorary position as President of the organising or technical committees for competitions such as world and continental championships in skiing, tennis, figure skating, curling, archery, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball and athletics.

He has personal experience of sports competitions as an official of a Swiss ski team and as a coach for ski and ice-hockey teams. Mr Felli also participated in a ski professional circuit in the USA for several years and played ice-hockey with a Swiss club.

Mr Felli has a diploma in architecture, and worked several years in construction business in Switzerland before switching to the sports world

George Duncan (Chief Executive Officer Richmond Olympic Oval, City of Richmond)

George serves in a dual capacity as the senior executive of both the City of Richmond (Chief Administrative Officer [CAO]) and the Richmond Olympic Oval Corporation (Chief Executive Officer [CEO]). In addition to his CEO position with the Oval Corporation, George also serves as a director on the Corporation’s Board of Directors. 

Under George’s leadership as CAO, Richmond has been recognized with over 48 major national and international awards.  Included in these are two Willis Awards for Excellence in Administration and Exceptional Innovation; two International Awards for Most Liveable Communities; and the 2012 World Leisure International Innovation Award.

In preparation for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, George led the staff team that developed the winning proposal and Community Legacy Plan for the long track speed skating oval – premier venue of the 2010 Games; and represented Richmond in negotiations with the 2010 Organizing Committee and IOC on the implementation of the Community Legacy Plan. George was also a member of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games Partners Executive Committee; and was the city’s representative on the Canada Line Board which was responsible for delivering the $1.8 billion Canada Line (Richmond-Airport-Vancouver rapid transit line) in time for the 2010 Games.

Bruce Dewar (Chief Executive Officer, Life Philanthropy Partners)

Bruce has more than 25 years of experience consulting with private companies and public agencies, including international projects spanning 12 countries. Bruce was involved with the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for more than 12 years, including work in the tourism, business and social sectors. As CEO of 2010 Legacies Now, he developed and supported projects to help British Columbia leverage the Games into lasting legacies for the entire province. He played an integral role in the transition of 2010 Legacies Now to LIFT Philanthropy Partners and the field of venture philanthropy. 

Previously, Bruce was president of a consulting firm where he specialized in change management and strategic business planning. He served as a director for the Vancouver Board of Trade, the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, Tourism Vancouver and the Hong Kong Canada Business Association. He also chaired the boards of the Laurier Institute and the Vancouver, Coast and Mountains Tourism Region.

Bruce holds a master of science in management of technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has provided lectures in international business, entrepreneurship and cultural tourism. He has presented at conferences worldwide on the importance of delivering social legacies around major sport, cultural and other events.

Richard Giulianotti (Professor of Sociology, Durham University)

Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK, and a Professor II in the Sociology of Sport at Telemark University College, Norway.  His main research interests are in the fields of football, sport, mega-events, globalization, development and peace, and security.  

He has conducted research into sport throughout the world, notably across the UK, mainland Europe, North and South America, South and East Asia, and southern Africa.  He is currently working with Dick Hobbs, Gary Armstrong and Gavin Hales on an ESRC-funded research project investigating policing and police-community relations at the London 2012 Olympics. 

Richard is the author of Football: A Sociology of the Global Game (Polity, 1999), Sport: A Critical Sociology (Polity 2005), Ethics, Money and Sport (Routledge, 2006, with Adrian Walsh), and Globalization and Football (Sage/TCS 2009, with Roland Robertson).  He recently acted as guest co-editor for special issues of the journal Urban Studies (November 2011) on the subject of sport mega-events and security, and British Journal of Sociology (June 2012) on the sociology of world sport. 

Nick Fuller (Head of Education, London 2012)

Nick is Head of Education at LOCOG, working with all stakeholders to build and deliver a wide-ranging UK and international education programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Nick worked in educational publishing from 1984-1995, developing global learning resources for young people and teacher-training materials for teachers. Nick then developed education-business-third sector partnerships in the classroom and the community, setting up an award-winning international consultancy, EdComs, in 1995. 

Nick joined LOCOG in May 2007. Get Set, the London 2012 education programme, launched the day after the Paralympic Handover from Beijing – 18th September 2008. Over 85% of UK schools registered with the Get Set programme by September 2012. 

International Inspiration, the flagship international educational programme, has reached its target of  12 million young people in 20 countries around the world.

Nick is a Trustee of the International Inspiration Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). 

Wolfgang Baumann (Secretary General, TAFISA)

Wolfgang Baumann graduated in Sports Economics, Sports Science and English Language at the Universities of Bonn, Bayreuth and Stirling (Scotland). As the elected TAFISA Secretary  General he works fulltime as the Executive Director of the TAFISA Office in Frankfurt (Germany).

He has been appointed Special Advisor for Sport for All International of the German Olympic Sport Federation (DOSB) and is the former Executive Director of the DOSB and the Sport Marketing Agency Deutsche Sport Partner GmbH.

He has contributed to and developed various international and national Sport for All programs and campaigns. His main working areas are marketing and management of Sport for All and comparative studies of Sport for All internationally. He has been consultant for Sport for All in more than 20 countries and invited as a speaker to numerous congresses and seminars worldwide. Moreover, he is appointed guest teacher at the University of Heidelberg. He has published on the topic in magazines, professional journals and books.

His international positions include his seat on the IOC Sport for All Commission and on the Executive Board of the International Council of Sports Sciences and Physical Education (ICSSPE).

He is married and has three daughters. His hobbies are sport (golf, skiing, tennis, soccer) and music (plays saxophone in a jazz band). As a volunteer he is the head of the council of his local catholic church.

Hawley MacLean (Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition)

Hawley MacLean is the Vice Chairman of the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition. He is a Board Member to the Lake Tahoe Exploratory Committee and is a passionate supporter of the Nevada Olympic bid.

Hawley is the President and CEO of MacLean Financial Group, a full-service financial planning company providing education to business owners, financial planners, certified public accountants and attorneys on wealth management and succession planning.. The MacLean family has been involved with financial services and multi-generational wealth management for over 150 years.

A graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, Hawley is a founder and active director of Heritage Bank of Nevada, a 500 million dollar community bank. In 2004, he was named the American Heart Association’s Man of the Year and became a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table. Hawley is a recipient of the Steve Rigazio Voice of Courage Award from ALS of Nevada. 

In 2011, Hawley was asked to serve on the advisory board for the University of Nevada, Reno College of Science. He is also a Board Member at the Black Rock Institute, which is a nonprofit, organization founded in 2009 that fosters public interest and understanding of landscapes throughout the American West.

Guin Batten (Chief Operating Officer, TOP Foundation)

Guin has worked for the Youth Sport Trust since 2005, initially responsible for designing their athlete role model programmes and later as Head of Performance with responsible for delivering the UK government’s Talent and Competition strands of the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People.

In 2000 at the Sydney Olympic Games, Guin made history by being part of the crew that won Britain’s first ever female rowing medal at an Olympic Games. This was the highlight of an international career that lasted 9 years, 2 Olympic Games and 6 World Championships.

Academically Guin has a BA (hons) in Human Movement Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University and a MSc in Sport Science from Loughborough University.

Guin has previously worked as an exercise physiologist for the British Olympic Association, has been a part of the National Governing Bodies team at Sport England. She is a member of FISA Council the International Federation for rowing. 

Currently, as Chief Operating Officer for the TOP Foundation, Guin leads on the YST’s Research and Development Projects and YST’s International work. Including the delivery of the PE and sport elements of the London 2012 International Inspiration Program.

Roy Sheppard

Mr. Roy Sheppard is a specialist conference moderator, an experienced speaker and the author of five books. 

In his role as moderator he is ‘the conscience of the audience’. He asks the questions and highlights the issues that members of the audience want to know more about. He is also the acknowledged European expert on building profitable business relationships through networking and referrals and has spoken at conferences internationally for many of the world’s largest companies. He is a visiting lecturer at Henley Business School  in the UK. His early career began in television and radio. Working both regionally and nationally for the BBC, he presented many interview-based programmes. 

Roy has moderated all of UMVO’s conferences. He is currently putting the finishing touches to his next book “Dear Son: What I Wish I’d Known at Your Age.”