Andrew Demetriou was chief executive of the Australian Football League from 2003 to 2014. Prior to becoming chief executive, he was AFL general manager of football operations for three years and oversaw all aspects of the AFL competition. This followed a stint as head of the AFL Players Association when he was instrumental in establishing programs to look after players both during and after their playing careers. Following an AFL playing career of 106 games, Mr Demetriou was managing director of the Ruthinium Group, a business importing acrylic teeth, growing the business significantly by expanding manufacturing and exports to 70 countries worldwide and he currently remains a board member.
Mr Demetriou is executive chair of Career One, director of the Melbourne Sports Marketing firm Bastion Group, non-executive chair of Capitol Health, transitional chair of Cox Architects, global chair of Beyond Boundaries, and non-executive director of the non-partisan Climate Institute. He was also chair of the Acquire Learning Advisory Group and non-executive chair of the Baxter Group, a waste management group listed on ASX in 2003 with a market capitalisation of $40 million. The company was later sold to Transpacific for $260 million. He was former chair of the Australian Multicultural Advisory Council.
Mr Demetriou joined the board of Crown Resorts in 2014 and became a director of CrownBet. In October 2020, he was appointed chair of the company that runs its key Melbourne casino, Crown Melbourne Limited. He stepped down from the Crown board in February 2021 following a scathing review of the casino giant and its suitability of a licence for running its casino in Sydney.
