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The following is a letter to members from North Melbourne Chairman James Brayshaw regarding the resignation of CEO Eugene Arocca.

Dear members,

Many of you will now be aware our CEO Eugene Arocca has tendered his resignation, effective immediately.

Eugene has been a great servant of our football club during four and a half years at the helm.

In that time, he’s overseen the dissolving of our shareholder structure and returned us to a member-owned club, built a $15 million facility and achieved a club record membership figure of just under 33,000.

We’ve significantly boosted football department spending and pushed into Southern Tasmania and regional Victoria while also creating a great alliance with the City of Ballarat - the list goes on.

In any way you measure Eugene’s contribution, it has been immense and we thank him for it.

He will always have great friends here at Aegis Park for many years to come.

As a club, we must now look forward and leave no stone unturned to find the best CEO available to continue to grow our business in all the key areas.

Cam Vale will step in as interim CEO until a replacement is found and he is a highly talented and capable individual that will have an important role to fill over the coming months. He will have great support from a first class administration and we will continue to strive for success both on and off the field.

This is a great team, with great people at all levels and we have a strong strategy in place to deliver long term stability and profitability to Aegis Park.

While the results on the field haven’t been great in recent weeks, I have faith in our team led by Brad Scott to turn things around in the second half of the year.

Right now, we need our great and loyal family of members to stay the course with us. It’s in times like this, we all need to stick together and support our players to the best of our ability.

Finally, please join me in wishing Eugene and his family all the best for whatever endeavour he next pursues.

Regards,
JB

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