Essendon Football Club is pleased to announce that Chairman Lindsay Tanner and Deputy Chairman and Finance Director Paul Brasher will be declared elected for further three-year terms as Club Directors at the Annual General Meeting in December.

Under the Club’s Constitution, if the number of Eligible Members nominated for election as Directors does not exceed the number of vacancies, then those persons nominated are deemed to have been duly elected.

Tanner joined the Bombers’ Board in 2015 following 17 years as the MP for Melbourne in the Australian Parliament. Currently, he works as a special advisor to Lazard, a financial advisory and asset management firm and is also a Board member for Virgin International Australia, VICT, Covata Ltd and chairs the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Research.

Brasher was first appointed to the Board in 2011. He also serves as Chair of the Audit, Risk & Integrity Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. 

Essendon will hold its Annual General Meeting and Member Forum on Monday 17^th December at Marvel Stadium.

The Election of Directors will remain an agenda item for the AGM, where there will be a formal declaration of the elections of Tanner and Brasher for further terms.

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