2019 Game Committee

Meet our amazing committee who worked tirelessly to make the Inaugural Wudzy AFL Basketball Game possible

 

Jodie Hooper

Wudzy Inc. Founder & CEO

Jodie created the Wudzy App and dreamt up the idea of the Wudzy AFL Basketball Game. Her passion in life is to help people everywhere beat cancer by providing them with access to the best treatment available anywhere and helping them pay for it. The Wudzy App and the basketball game will raise funds for those who desperately need it so they may lead long, happy, healthy and fulfilled lives.

Narelle Williams

Event Co-Ordinator

Narelle is a highly accomplished and sought after wedding planner. Her company Global Weddings has coordinated over 1000 weddings. Her attention to detail and refusal to compromise on quality are only part of what makes her so successful in her field – and the perfect person to run our event! She has been friends with Wudzy CEO Jodie and her family since primary school and knew Colin well.

Emma Paolucci

Public Relations

Emma has worked in PR since she graduated from Monash University in 2015, where she received the Dean’s Recognition Award for ‘Outstanding Academic Results’. She is now a Communications Executive at the Walt Disney Company. She is an extremely driven, intelligent and hard-working young lady with a heart of gold. Emma is the longterm girlfriend of Jodie’s son Kirk and as such knew Colin well.

Darren Smith

Recruitment & Coach

Darren played over 200 games as a professional basketball player in the NBL until he retired in 2004. He worked for 10 years as the CEO for the Red Dust Role Models Foundation before leaving there recently to start his position as head of Basketball Australia Pathways. Darren and his family were close friends of Jodie’s family and knew Colin well.

Sue Barron

Sponsorship

A former nurse, Sue is a passionate advocate for health. She is now a smartDNA Practitioner working in the field of NutriGenomics and is an expert on – and advocate for – glutathione and the many health benefits it provides. Sue met Jodie through the mutual work they do for cancer patients and is always happy to help any one in need.

Janene Ferguson

Sponsorship

With over 33 years of experience as a Travel Agent Janene is the owner and director of helloworld South Melbourne. Helloworld were a major sponsor of Basketball Australia for a number of years. Janene has donated and help coordinate major prizes for our AFL Basketball event. We are enormously grateful for everything Janene has done.