Nigel Smart at Variety SA with chairwoman Nicola Haack. Picture: Mark Brake Source: The Advertiser
Nigel Smart with the 1998 premiership cup. Picture: Mark Brake Source: The Advertiser
ADELAIDE has appointed deputy chairman and former All-Australian full-back Nigel Smart as the club's new chief operating officer.
Club chairman Rob Chapman today said Smart would fill the key off-field position -- made vacant by former Channel 9 boss Mark Colson's move to Tasmania.
"Nigel Smart is highly accomplished and brings to our club an irresistible blend of achievement as a manager, businessman and footballer,'' Chapman said.
"Nigel knows business and he knows football. He has a record of success both inside and outside the Adelaide Football Club as a leader of people and builder of businesses. We chose him in an exacting national selection process from a first-class field of candidates.''
Smart's appointment fills an existing vacancy and is not related to the shuffle at the top following the suspension of CEO Steven Trigg for his involvement in the Kurt Tippett saga.
Chapman said Smart, who has been deputy chairman since 2009, would immediately step down from the Crows board.
Smart joins the Crows from children's charity Variety, where he was chief executive.
"I look forward to continuing to do all that I can to contribute to the success of our great club,'' Smart said.
"The Crows and its people -- players, staff and supporters -- have been at the centre of my life for the greater part of it. I'm excited and grateful for the opportunity to return here as a leader of a terrific group of people, many of whom I have grown up with and admire tremendously.''
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Smart played 278 games for the Crows from 1991-2004 and was vice-captain in the premiership years of 1997 and 98 and again in 1999. He was an All-Australian in his first year of AFL and again in 1993 and 1998.
He served on the AFL Players Association's executive board throughout his playing career.
Smart's previous business posts during the past 20 years include national sales and marketing manager with the Jobs Statewide Group, national business development manager of Disability Works Australia, network development manager SA/NT for the Toyota Motor Corporation and sales and sponsorship manager SA/NT for Lion Nathan Australia.
He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Adelaide's Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from the Flinders University.
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