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Author: Jeremy Rolleston
Jeremy Rolleston is an inspiring and engaging personality with exceptional sporting, business and life achievement. He speaks with the authority of experience and draws upon a lifetime of heartaches and successes to inspire an equip others to follow their dreams and to be all they can be.
He is a two-time Olympian, has represented his country in two sports (rugby and bobsleigh), and most recently (after retiring from Olympic competition) won two world titles at the World Surf Life Saving Championships.
During his rugby days Jeremy played in numerous representative teams including the Australian Legends team, the Australian Universities team and the Australian B (Legends) sevens side. He also played professionally for Italian side Rovigo. He then found his way from rugby into bobsleigh and in 2006 at the XX Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy Jeremy piloted Australia’s 2-man bobsleigh to the equal best-ever Australian result. This was even more remarkable considering it was his first full-season as a pilot. Then at the XXI Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, the Australian public shared the heartbreaking crash that Jeremy was involved in on a track that had already tragically claimed the life of one Olympic athlete over a week earlier. In what was a devastating situation Jeremy exemplified the honour, dignity and sportsmanship we look for in Olympians, not just when they win, but when everything goes wrong. Then, after retiring from Olympic competition, Jeremy added two world titles to his name, winning both the Beach Sprint and Beach Flag events (Masters) at the World Surf Life Saving Championships in France, 2014.
Throughout his sporting career Jeremy has maintained a successful corporate career. He is currently CEO of Active8me and previous to that was Managing Director at Artesian Venture Partners, General Manager – Institutional Business at Perpetual Investments and Executive Director at investment banking firm Goldman Sachs JBWere.