Darren Beazley is an Australian businessman and sports administrator.

Early life

Darren Beazley was born in Nambour in Queensland, but spent his formative years in

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, where he graduated from high school and later university. He was an accomplished sportsman playing Australian Rules Football with Swan Districts Football Club and cricket with the Midland Guildford, Claremont Cottesloe and Scarborough Cricket Clubs, winning an A Grade Premiership with Scarborough in 1994/5.

Career

After earning his MBA from

Edith Cowan University Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Parliaments of the Australian states and territories, Australian parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Aust ...

, Beazley went on to serve as a manager or board member at various private companies, charities, and sports clubs. From 1994 to 1998 he was employed with the

West Australian Football Commission The West Australian Football Commission is the governing body of Australian rules football in the state of Western Australia. Operations The WAFC was formed in 1989 to manage the sport in Western Australia. The commission is registered as a not- ...

, and from there was assigned by the

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to manage the Tasmanian Football Development Foundation, a charity that develops programs and clinics for Australian youth athletes. After Tasmania, Beazley moved to America and worked for tech company Funge Systems, Inc. for three years, and then was hired as a general manager for the

Western Australian Cricket Association The Western Australian Cricket Association (known as the WACA) is the governing body for cricket in Western Australia. The WACA was formed on 5 November 1885. In 1893 the association opened the WACA Ground. Elite cricket The WACA is responsible ...

. He has also worked as the general manager of strategic partnerships for the

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of ...

, where he led the club's expansion into the South African market. In 2011 Beazley was the Director of Commercial Operations for the Perth ISAF Sailing World Championships, a

London 2012 Olympic Games The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

qualifying event. Most recently he was employed as the national sales director for clean energy company Enerji Limited. In 2012, the USA Cricket Association (

USACA The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA), headquartered at Miami Beach, was the national governing body for all cricket in the United States, until it was replaced by USA Cricket in 2019. The board was formed in 1965. USACA w ...

) began recruitment for a new permanent chief executive, which they had been without since previous CEO Don Lockerbie left the organization in 2010. In December 2012 the recruitment committee, composed of USACA board members and an ICC representative, chose Beazley for the position. He moved into the job in February 2013. but left fourteen months later, in April 2014. Beazley was CEO of the Western Australian Swimming Association (Swimming WA) for six-and-a-half years, from May 2014 to November 2020. He departed Swimming WA to take up a position at Heatleys Safety & Industrial, which has been a sponsor of swimming in Western Australia.

Personal life

Beazley is a member of the

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and an Associate Fellow of the

Australian Institute of Management The Australian Institute of Management Education and Training Pty Ltd, commonly known as AIM or AIMET, is an Australian education provider. Its courses include business, management and leadership. AIM offers short courses, nationally accredited qu ...

. He also serves on the volunteer board of Celebrate WA, an organization that honors western Australian leadership. He is the president of the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia, a position that interested him because of his own lifelong struggle with

asthma Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, cou ...

. Beazley is married with two children and relocated to Florida during his time with USACA. After 4 years as Vice President, in June 2022 he was elected President of the Scarborough Cricket Club.

References

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