In this episode of YS Up Governance and Boards Podcast, 3YS Owls Governance Consultants, Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson interview Pat Howard. Pat is the CEO of MSL Solutions Limited (ASX:MSL), and Pat is a current board member of Queensland Rugby Union, formerly performance director of Leicester Tigers from March to December 2005, and formerly the executive general manager of team performance of Cricket Australia. Pat joined Cricket Australia back in 2011, and during the period Pat has overseen World Cups and The Ashes in the men's and women's programs, and seen developments in coach education, pathway changes and restructuring of domestic competitions.
We explore with Pat: governance in sport, cricket and rugby union in Australia, Leicester Tigers, crisis management and Pat's corporate roles outside of sport.

"You mentioned the [Steve Smith, Dave Warner and Cameron Bancroft ball tampering incident]. But there was a precedent set, a couple of months before where two female cricketers had been banned for six months for a very small bet on this day cricket, and they got six months ban for betting on cricket.

So, automatically the sanction had to be fair and reasonable to those people. And then that automatically set a bar that had to be played with. And there were other people that wanted people sanctioned for life. And I didn't think that was reasonable either. And you then had ICC governance rules where the sanctions were one match, and that didn't seem fair and reasonable either in the circumstances due to the impact it had on the game and the country."
- Pat Howard

Summary of episode
· Governance in sport
· Third generation playing for the Wallabies
· Australian Rugby Union
· Cricket Australia
· Pat's role as COO at Cromwell Property Group (ASX: CMW)
· Crisis management
· Pat's role as Performance Director for the Leicester Tigers
· T20 Cricket
· Womens' Cricket
· The Ashes
· Concussion
· Player of the Year 2001
· Rx Management - Pharmacy Group

About Pat Howard
Pat Howard is the CEO of MSL Solutions Limited (ASX:MSL), and Pat is a current board member of Queensland Rugby Union, formerly performance director of Leicester Tigers from March to December 2005, and formerly the executive general manager of team performance of Cricket Australia. Pat joined Cricket Australia back in 2011, and during the period Pat has overseen World Cups and Ashes in the men's and women's program. Number...