She was elected as an International Olympic Committee
(IOC) Member (1996 and re-elected as IOC Member 2000-2004), and
now serves on the IOC Athletes Commission (1996-present) and the
IOC Press Commission (2001-present). She was a member of the IOC
Culture/Education Commissions (1996-2004), IOC 2000 Reform Commission
and the Athens 2004 Working Group. As a founding member of the
independent IOC Ethics Commission, she contributed to developing
the current IOC Code of Ethics.
Charmaine is President/Founder of NGU Consultants
Inc. (since 1994), a global sports marketing and strategic consulting
company. She is also a sought after professional speaker on topics
ranging from leadership, team building and the Olympic Movement.
From 2001-2007, she was a member of the Corporate
Advisory Board of AIM/Trimark Mutual Funds, and it’s Governance
Committee. AIM/Trimark is one of Canada’s largest mutual
funds companies.
From 2002-2005, the Federal government appointed
her to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature
and in 2007, the BC Government appointed her to the Board of Governors
at the University of Northern BC (UNBC).
In 2003, she was elected by her peers to serve
on the Executive Board of the international alumni body of Olympians,
the World Olympians Association (WOA), and is their current representative
to the IOC Athlete’s Commission. In 2007, she was re-elected
as Vice President of the WOA and is currently Chair of Olympians
Canada, the national alumni body of Olympians. Since 2003, she
has been the founding Chair of the PASO (Pan American) Athletes
Commission.
As a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian
Olympic Committee (re-elected 2005-2009), Charmaine played an
integral role in Toronto's 2008 Olympic Bid, and Vancouver’s
2010 Games Bid. She was co-Chair of the successful 2010 “Yes”
campaign, which was the first successful Olympic plebiscite. She
is currently one of twenty members of the Board of Directors for
the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising
Committee (Vanoc) and is on the Governance and Strategic Communications
Committee.
An avid volunteer supporter of sports events staged
in Canada, she was the Executive Vice Chair of the 2003 World
Weightlifting Championships. This event won the 2003 “Canadian
Sport Event of the Year Award”. She was also on the Board
of the 2006 Men’s World Ice Hockey Championships and co-Chaired
the Protocol and Awards Committee.
Charmaine has also been a freelance Television
personality since 1993, and has worked with CBC, TSN, CTV, Fox
Sportsnet and European TV as an analyst, host or commentator on
a number of sports and variety programs. She was the host of the
first national CBC TV show '"Cycle" on recreational
cycling, and also co-hosted the nation wide talk show, "In
the Company of Women". She continues to host the annual internationally
televised award winning "World Athletics" Gala from
Monaco. As an executive producer, in 1995, she created the "Comic
Relief" style TV special, "No Laughing Matter"
which raised awareness for Breast Cancer and aired on the Comedy
Network.
Her extensive charitable work includes issues
related to children and women’s health and she is an honorary
Board member of “Big Sister’s” of the Lower
Mainland. As a founding member of the international Board of Directors
of “Right to Play”, a global athlete driven humanitarian
organization, she Chairs the Governance Committee.
In 2006, she was one of six global sports leaders
awarded with the “IOC Women in Sport Trophy” for promoting
women in sport by the International Olympic Committee. In March
2004, the National Post selected her as one of the “Top
50 Women of Power” in Canada. In 2005, she was inducted
into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
Charmaine has a BA in psychology from the University
of Texas El Paso (UTEP) where she attended on an Athletic Scholarship,
and was the first individual woman inducted into UTEP’s
Hall of Fame in 2006.
