1. Jayne Hrdlicka is currently the chairman and Board President of Tennis Australia, having been appointed in October 2017.
14 Facts About Jayne Hrdlicka
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Jayne Hrdlicka's father had defected from Czechoslovakia while he was in Paris competing as a member of a national hockey team in 1948 at the age of sixteen.
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Jayne Hrdlicka attended Newton High School in Newton, Kansas; during her high school years she became the Kansas state champion in the sport of tennis.
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Jayne Hrdlicka went on to college in Colorado after high school, graduating from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and economics.
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Jayne Hrdlicka holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
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From 2010 to 2012 Jayne Hrdlicka was a senior executive at Australian airline Qantas.
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In July 2012, Jayne Hrdlicka was appointed group chief executive officer at Qantas subsidiary Jetstar, a position she held until November 2017, when she was appointed the CEO of Qantas Loyalty and Digital Ventures, the company within Qantas responsible for the airline's frequent-flyer program.
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Jayne Hrdlicka left Qantas in April 2018 and in July 2018 she became managing director, chief executive officer and director of The a2 Milk Company, a dairy company based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Jayne Hrdlicka later stated she left a2 because her husband was found in November 2019 to have a kidney tumour, from which he eventually died in May 2023.
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Jayne Hrdlicka was a director of Tennis Australia between January 2016 and October 2017 and was appointed Board President and Chair of Tennis Australia in October 2017.
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Jayne Hrdlicka served as a director at Woolworths from 2010 to 2016.
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Jayne Hrdlicka is a member of Tuck School of Business' Asian Advisory Board.
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On 18 November 2020, Jayne Hrdlicka became the CEO of Virgin Australia Holdings when Bain Capital took ownership of the airline, following the resignation of Paul Scurrah.
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Jayne Hrdlicka announced her resignation as Virgin Australia's CEO in February 2024, and in March 2025, it was announced that current Chief Commercial Officer Dave Emerson would replace her in the role.