On Thursday, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Olympic Foundation (Foundation) announced Los Angeles 1984 Canadian Olympic Team member Cindy Yelle (née Õunpuu) as the Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer.
Before joining the Foundation, Yelle was considered one of Canada’s leading professionals in health-based philanthropy. She previously served as Senior Vice President at the SickKids Foundation and has spent the past nine years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation.
While there, Yelle planned a cohesive marketing and revenue generation strategy to launch and achieve an unprecedented goal of raising $100M through the "Where Incredible Happens" campaign, the largest of its kind in Canada.
Reporting to the Foundation’s Board of Directors and the COC’s Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General, David Shoemaker, Yelle will oversee the organization’s mission to generate philanthropic fundraising to meet the needs of Canada’s high-performance sport system and assist Canada’s athletes in becoming ambassadors for sport, healthy living and the pursuit of excellence across the nation.
She joins Olympians Charmaine Crooks, Jeff Glass, Steve Podborski and Mark Tewksbury who sit on the Foundation Board.
"As someone who has lived the life of a high-performance athlete, I understand the importance of supporting current and next generation athletes and coaches with the funds they need to succeed on the field of play," said Yelle. "Our athletes and the Olympic Movement unite us and they make us believe in our own potential. It doesn’t matter where we are from, sport is something that brings us all together in such a beautiful and uniquely Canadian way."
Yelle was named captain of the Canadian World Championship and Commonwealth Championship women’s swim teams and was inducted into the Ontario Aquatic Hall of Fame in 2001.
"We are so pleased to welcome Cindy to the Canadian Olympic Foundation as Chief Executive Officer," said Perry Dellelce, Chair of the Foundation. "Her exceptional experience in leadership, philanthropy and as an esteemed athlete will bring an incredible momentum to the Foundation’s work and to the Canadian Olympic Movement."
The Canadian Olympic Foundation has enabled Canadians, Canadian athletes and their coaches to strive for excellence in sport since 2007. As the official charitable organization of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Team Canada, the Foundation aims to inspire every Canadian to be capable of greatness, through sport and Olympic values.
25 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is www.aroundtherings.com, for subscribers only
Últimas Noticias
Brigitte Henriques: “The important thing is that the women who are elected should be chosen for their ability, not because we are looking for modernization in terms of gender”
“When I was a girl I couldn’t find a club to play soccer in because most of them didn’t work with women,” Henriques tells Around the Rings during an in-depth interview in Crete, Greece.
The Hula Report: Winds of Change for ANOC in Crete
New leaders coming for peak Olympic group. Whether other candidates emerge in the months ahead, a contested election for the ANOC presidency will be a first for the organization.
Gilles Gilbert Gresenguet, presidential candidate for AFCNO: “We must take advantage of Paris 2024 to bring the Olympic Games back to French”
The elections take place November 18, and Abakar Djermah Aumi, president of the Chad Olympic Committee, is also aiming to win them.
USOPC announces 613-member 2020 U.S. Olympic Team
Roger Federer pulls out of Tokyo Olympics: "I am greatly disappointed"
(ATR) Federer cites "a setback with my knee" for the decision.
