Sport NI has appointed a new Chief Operating Officer and a new Director of Sport. These new strategic roles are part of the transformation programme within Sport NI.
As Chief Operating Officer, Adrian Doherty is a long-standing senior official in the NI civil service with extensive experience in Finance and Governance. Adrian joined Sport NI on secondment two years ago from the Department of Justice. Within Sport NI Adrian has successfully advanced the organisation’s operations, making huge strides in governance compliance, quality standards and digital transformation.
As Director of Sport, Michael Boyd has been a senior member of the IFA Team for over twenty years and has led ground-breaking initiatives in youth football, the women’s game and on issues of equality and inclusion. Michael brings a wealth of experience in grassroots and performance sport and deep insight to the needs of sports governing bodies.
Antoinette McKeown, Sport NI CEO, said “I am delighted to welcome Michael and Adrian to the Sport NI team and I am excited to work with them and the entire team as we continue our journey towards best in world standards. Both bring relevant and complementary expertise to our focus on a holistic sports system for NI to support everyone involved in sport and physical recreation.”
Michael Boyd, Sport NI Director of Sport, said “I’m really looking forward to my new role at Sport NI, an organisation with an exciting new strategy in place, and I am excited about the future. It was time for me to embrace a new challenge, a new adventure and I am looking forward to playing my part.”
Adrian Doherty, Sport NI COO, said “I am delighted to join the Sport NI Team on a permanent basis, having worked here for almost two years already and it is a great pleasure to join as Chief Operating Officer. I have seen at first hand, the commitment of the entire staff force at Sport NI and the passion the organisation has for making sport better. I know just how successful Sport NI has been in driving operational excellence in recent years and I can’t wait to continue this journey of excellence in my new role.”