Caroline began her role as Managing Director of Melbourne Victory in May 2021. She is also a Director and Company Secretary of the club, having first joined the Board in 2015 and a director and secretary of the Club’s not-for-profit Academy. MVFC is one of Australia’s premier football clubs, boasting four A-League Championships (and three Premierships), two FFA Cup titles and seven time qualifier for the ACL. Along with the A-League men, the Club is proud to compete in the NYL, NPL and A-League womens competitions. Caroline is also an inaugural member of the FA (Football Australia) Women’s Council (WC) and represented the WC on the New Leagues Working Group, designed to agree and recommend the structure for the Australian professional football leagues moving forward.

Caroline has particular expertise in mergers, acquisitions and disposals (including trade sales, management buy outs and distressed sales), contract preparation and negotiation, asset sales and IT outsourcing agreements across a broad range of industry sectors. Caroline also has a sports law practice, which entails advising many sporting organisations on their league participation arrangements, sponsorships, governance programs and more and has acted for many premier sporting organisations. Caroline also provides extensive advice to not-for-profit entities in relation to corporate governance and structuring and was the primary legal advisor to the Australian Professional Leagues in respect of unbundling from the FA, and the capital raise project undertaken with Silver Lake, that resulted in a US$100m investment into football in this country.