ATC Staff

The Australian Turf Club acts as the driving force behind the sustainability and growth of racing in Sydney. Currently, the Club employs 220 highly-skilled and dedicated full time staff who pride themselves on delivering the 123 race meetings that are run across the organisations four premium venues; Royal Randwick, Rosehill Gardens, Warwick Farm and Canterbury Park.


    Executive

  • Darren Pearce

    POSITION: Chief Executive Officer

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic Direction, Management, Regulatory Industry Liaison and Corporate Secretarial Functions of the ATC’s entire operations.

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Octagonal

  • Matt Rudolph

    POSITION: Executive General Manager, Racing

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Industry & Stakeholder Groups, Racecourses and Training Racing & Wagering

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Choisir

  • James Van Beek

    POSITION: Chief Financial Officer

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Financial Management and Reporting, Strategic and Tactical matters, Budgeting and Forecasting and Cashflow Management and Funding

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Kiwi

  • Lynell Peck

    POSITION: Executive General Manager

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Race day & non race day hospitality, events & logistics’, facilities & properties, security & compliance, race day venue & customer service

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Sunline

  • Jennifer Schembri

    POSITION: Executive General Manager, Human Resources

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategy & Policy Development, Work, Health, Safety & Environment, Employee / Industrial Relations, Compensation & Benefits, Recruitment and Retention, Learning & Development, Payroll Management, Staffing Solutions

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Makybe Diva

  • Livia Bartoletti

    POSITION: Executive General Manager, General Counsel

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Provision of all legal and regulatory advice to the Directors of the Australian Turf Club, Participant in organisational strategy development and sole responsibility for all legal work required by the Australian Turf Club and the legal department budget.

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Phar Lap

  • Mark Flanagan

    POSITION: Executive General Manager, Property Development

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Development of all ATC property portfolio including $150m Royal Randwick Redevelopment, Hotel at Royal Randwick, Masterplanning, Financing, Approvals and rollout of all other developments.

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Sea Biscuit

  • Membership

  • Brett Boyd

    POSITION: General Manager, Membership

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage the efficient and effective operations of the ATC’s Membership Program, Grow the ATC Membership base, attracting more people to the sport, Provide Members with superior customer service and Ensure all Members needs a catered for whilst at the races and their experience is pleasurable and memorable

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Northerly

  • Sponsorship

  • Rohan Sawyer

    POSITION: General Manager, Sponsorship

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Partnership management and benefit delivery, Business development, acquisition and relationship management, Sponsorship sales and contract negotiation skills and Sponsorship supply rights partnerships

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Our Egyptian Raine

  • Sales

  • Darwyn Jolly

    POSITION: General Manager, Sales & Commercial

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic sales planning across commercial platforms, Pricing, product and yield management, Business, conventions and events, Race day, corporate hospitality and ticketing sales

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: ATC’s Mounted Security Horse- Beersheba, the only ex thoroughbred that I have ridden.

  • Julie Harris

    POSITION: Race Day Sales Supervisor

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Managing and contracting the sale of exclusive Corporate Suites and Chairman’s Club, Race day hospitality for Members and Public Dining & Group, Corporate and Marquee Hospitality

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Doriemus

  • Terri-Ann Mikulic

    POSITION: Group Business Development Manager

    Non race day event venue sales of Royal Randwick, Rosehill Gardens, Canterbury Park and Warwick Farm Racecourses Specialise in the Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Events (MICE) and Exhibition

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Might & Power

  • Crystal Magnus

    POSITION: Business Development Manager

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Developing and building upon new client relationships and securing new and profitable business across Rosehill Gardens and Canterbury Park

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Makybe Diva

  • Customer Service

  • Amy Irwin

    POSITION: Customer & Venue Services Manager

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Customer Service Workforce and front of House Guest Services

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Makybe Diva

  • Virginia Trimmis

    POSITION: Receptionist

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Respond to public inquiries via email and direct the Members and the general public to the appropriate staff member

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Tulloch

  • Racing & Tracks

  • Colin Tuck

    POSITION: General Manager, Racing & Wagering

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Race Dates,Race Programming and Wagering Facilities

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Kingston Town

  • Lindsay Murphy

    POSITION: General Manager, Racecourses

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: The presentation of all Racetracks, Training Tracks – grass and synthetics, Gardens and surrounds, Conduct of training

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Kingston Town

  • Nevesh Ramdhani

    POSITION: Racecourse Manager, Royal Randwick

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage all operations of the Randwick racing and training tracks. Trainer liaison and communications, contract management, racing Infrastructure

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: More Joyous

  • Chris Toogood

    POSITION: Rosehill Gardens Track & Grounds Manager

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Rosehill Track & Ground Maintenance

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Kingston Town

  • Greg Carmody

    POSITION: Racecourse Manager Canterbury Park

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: 36 Race meetings a year and track and grounds management

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Intergaze

  • Public Relations

  • Larissa O'Connor

    POSITION: Media & PR Manager

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Media Management, public relations, communications and ambassador program

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Octagonal

  • Studbook

  • Michael Ford

    POSITION: Keeper of the Australian Stud Book

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: Reporting to the joint proprietors (the ATC and VRC ) of the Stud Book on policy and finance, Overseeing the integrity of Thoroughbred breeding records in Australia and Representing the Stud Book at the International Stud Book Committee in UK, and the Asian Stud Book Conference

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: Maykbe Diva, Tulloch and Kingston Town

  • Heritage Society

  • Margaret Helback

    POSITION: Heritage Officer

    CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES: ATC Artwork Collection, heritage office and heritage Society

    FAVOURITE RACEHORSE OF ALL TIME: The Barb