Who is Who at Headquarters?
Two new colleagues recently joined the IPC Headquarters team and thus brought the staff
number up to a total of eight.
 Martin Mehren is the new administration
manager. His main responsibilities lie in the areas of finance administration, accounting,
human resources and contract work. Martin is a German national from the Bonn area with
language skills in German, English and French. He has a degree in business administration
and worked for the globally operating company KPMG before he started his job with IPC in
December 1999.
At KPMG he was responsible for statutory audits of financial statements and tax
consultancy services. Martin will be able to make use of this experience, when
transferring all IPC financial affairs to the headquarters in Bonn. "It will be
one of my major tasks to reorganize IPC's finance administration according to German law
and to the needs of an international, forward-looking organization", he
explains.
Martin completed his civil service in a school for intellectually disabled children,
where he gained some experience with recreational sport for the disabled. He is an athlete
himself, playing badminton in the second league of the state of Northrine-Westfalia.
 IPC's new sports administrator, David
Grevemberg, is an "old hand" in the Paralympic movement and well-known to many
athletes, chairpersons and organizers. David will be responsible for providing sports
related services to IPC chairpersons and National Paralympic Committees. As an athlete,
coach and administrator, he has worked closely with athletes with disabilities for eight
years. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), David attained graduate degrees in sport
administration and business administration with concentrations in marketing and
management.
David states: "I look forward to providing a professional level of
administration that will assist our international membership in delivering the highest
level of sport services available for athletes with disabilities." Previously,
David was the national competition services manager for Disabled Sports USA, where he
coordinated over 50 events in two years. He was also a participant at the 36th session of
the International Olympic Academy held in Olympia, Greece, during 1996 and has worked with
Olympic sport as well.
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