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Glenn Bourke Joins illbruck Challenge as CEO

by Jane Eagleson 18 Apr 2001 19:23 BST

Glenn Bourke, two-time America's Cup competitor and sailing venue and competition manager of the successful Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, has joined the illbruck Challenge as Chief Executive Officer, syndicate chairman Michael Illbruck announced today.

Bourke will lead the team in its dual Volvo Ocean Race and America's Cup program. Bourke is relocating from Sydney, Australia to Leverkusen, Germany where he will manage the illbruck Challenge.

"With racing programs for the world's two premier events under way, we needed the leadership of someone with experience like Glenn," Illbruck said. "Glenn has succeeded both as a competitor and as a manager and most importantly has a winning attitude. On the racecourse, he was a three-time consecutive Laser World Champion, an Olympic competitor, and an America's Cup tactician. He also managed the large team of people it took to have the best Olympic sailing competition ever. He will bring out the best from the talent we already have across all areas of the program while keeping everyone on track toward the goal of being a winning team."

Bourke, 40, comes to the illbruck Challenge from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney where he was the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his post at the CYCA, Bourke was the 2000 Olympic Games Sailing Venue and Competition Manager, a four-year project that culminated with successful Olympic and Paralympic sailing events for the world's top sailors. A two-time representative to the Australian Olympic Sailing Team in the Flying Dutchman (1980) and Finn Class (1992), Bourke was a three-time consecutive Laser World Champion (1988-1990).

In the America's Cup arena, Bourke has competed both as a Defender, with Kookaburra in 1987, and as a Challenger, as tactician with OneAustralia in 1995.

"This is a great opportunity to be involved with a professional sailing program that I have admired for many years. I first came across the illbruck program in the PINTA campaign of 1993 at the Admiral's Cup, where I sailed for Australia," Bourke said. "Germany narrowly defeated us that year by .3 of a point and I can clearly remember how even then the illbruck programs set the standard long before there were many full-time professional teams. It's an honour now to carry on a tradition started many years ago and to help this team succeed in these two major challenges-the Volvo Ocean Race and America's Cup. I look forward to working with Michael Illbruck and skipper John Kostecki and the rest of the team in achieving success for the illbruck Challenge."

illbruck Challenge is a competitive international sailing program that over the past 30 years has earned success at many of the world's top regattas. The illbruck Challenge is now pursuing the world's two pinnacle sailing events: the Volvo Ocean Race, the world's premier ocean race, and the America's Cup, the world's top match racing event. The illbruck Challenge is representing the Duesseldorf Yacht Club in Germany's first-ever Challenge for the America's Cup, the competition for the oldest international trophy in sport. The nine-leg Volvo Ocean Race around the world starts September 23, 2001 from Southampton, England and finishes in June 2002 in Kiel, Germany.

illbruck GmbH is a privately held international company with autonomous business units including Automotive, Sealant Systems, Sanitary Technology, Architectural Surfaces, and Filtration Systems/Insulation Systems. Founded in 1952, illbruck has 35 locations in15 countries worldwide and is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. The illbruck Challenge embodies the philosophy of the illbruck company: success through motivation, flexibility and team spirit. The illbruck Challenge is the image medium and primary vehicle for illbruck's global and internal corporate identification.

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