President / Central Board
Chairperson of Communications Committee
Nationality:- Australia
Joined: 2001
Lyndon Borrow joined DIBF as the youngest Board Member in July 2001, bringing with him over 18 years of basketball experiences as a national and state player, management and operations with both established and emerging sports organisations.
Lyndon was born Deaf on September 1972 in Melbourne. As an Australian, has built a solid background in sports management and Internet/multimedia technology, thanks largely to his past sporting achievements; selected to represent Australia from 1993 and participated to the 1997 - 18th Deaflympic Games in Denmark and representing the Victorian State team for the 1991, 1993, 1997 and 2003 Australian Deaf Games.
Prior to joining DIBF, Lyndon held various positions, including former Vice President of Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria, former Men's Section Secretary of Deaf Basketball Australia, ex-Committe of Victorian Deaf Basketball Association.
A recent highlight was the appointment to the Bidding Committee for the 2005 Melbourne Deaflympic Games. This entails visiting Davos, Switzerland in March 1999. Lyndon put toghether the multimedia presentation for the successful bid beating fiercely competative Slovakia.
Lyndon was also Operations Team Director, as the assistant to Chef de Mission for 2001 Australian Deaflympics Team for the 19th Deaflympic Games held in Rome, Italy.
With regards to his education, Lyndon was educated at private school, integrated with Deaf students - Yarra Valley Grammar, for 13 years and completed his Victorian Certificate of Education.
He went on to complete his traineeship at Swinburne University of Technology for a year specialising in Insurance business area as he works for his father's own business. Over the years he has build his on-hand experiences in his career and was given several opportunities to do further courses supported by his different employers. Whilst making his way to the top, it was not long before Lyndon has found his flair and talents for design in desktop publishing that has spurred him on to Graphic Designer as self-taught and conducted his own part-time business. At the same time, he was then employed by Australia's largest entertainment and casino complex in southern hemisphere - Crown Casino in graphics and desktop publishing department.
Remarkably - this was his turning point, based on his work skills developed over the years via computer and multimedia, this has enabled him to become one of reputable Web Designer / Developer, worked mainly in Internet industry. This has prompted him to return for further education at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University) doing Diploma of Computering Science - Interactive Web and Internet Technology, in which he has completed.
Lyndon's previous occupation in Australia was Web Developer for an award winning ISP company - Pacific Internet in Melbourne, Australia. Lyndon is currently based in London, United Kingdom and currently employed as Webmaster for Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast). He now has nine years experience in the graphics and internet industry.
Lyndon enjoys dine-out and travelling around Europe with his Greek deaf wife - Georgia Dimopoulou and two deaf daughters who also loves competition sports, doing other adrenalin related sports, watch captioned movies, keeping fit with fast games such as basketball, and keeping abreast of all sports and sports management news.
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