Executive Committee

Ivo Ferriani (*1960, Italy) was a bobsleigh athlete from 1982 to 1990 and participated in the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary.During the following years (1990 – 2010) he was the Coach and Team Director of the Italian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Team, the French Bobsleigh Team and the Canadian Bobsleigh Team formed in 1991. During the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin he was Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Competition Manager. At the 2006 Paralympic Games he held the position of Mayor of the Athletes´Village in Sestriere.
In 2016 Ivo Ferriani was elected member of the IOC. He is a member of the IOC´s Coordination Commission for the preparation of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, of the Sustainability and Legacy Commission as well as of the Entourage Commission. Ivo Ferriani is the president of AIOWF (Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations) since 2020 and in 2021 he was elected as the president of GAISF (Global Association of International Sports Federations) as well as the president of SportAccord.

Ivo Ferriani serves the IBSF as President since 2010.

Andreas Trautvetter (*1955, Germany) was the Minister in the State Chancellery of the Free State of Thuringia from 1992 to 1994. Afterwards he was the Minister of Finance of the Free State of Thuringia from 1994 to 2002 and then the Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Thuringia until 2004. From 2004 to 2008 he was appointed Minister of Construction and Transport of the Free State of Thuringia. He is a Member of the Thuringia Sustainability Advisory Committee.
Andreas Trautvetter was elected President of the Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland (BSD) in 2004 and has been holding this role since then.

The  2010 IBSF Congress elected him Vice President of Corporate and Financial Affairs.

Ander Mirambell (*1983, Spain) was a skeleton athlete from 2005 to 2022 and participated in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, in Sochi in 2014, in Pyeongchang in 2018 and in Beijing 2022.  
In 2019 Ander Mirambell was eleteced as Sports Director at the Spanish Ice Federation and held this role until 2022.

The IBSF Congress elected him as Vice President of Sport in 2022.

Stefaan Freeling (*1969, Belgium) was a professional motorcross GP driver (125cc and 250cc) from 1987 till 1992 before he started his bobsleigh career (1993 – 1998). He is a member of the Belgian Bob and Skeleton Federation since 2007 and fulfills currently the role as a Secretary General. From 2011 until 2014 he served as a member of the IBSF Development Committee followed by the IBSF Sports Committee Bobsleigh where his term will end in 2018. Currently he is employed by a laboratory.

In 2018 he was elected Vice President of International Affairs.

Chanmin Chyun (*1967, Korea) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Pharmcle since 2002 and was elected as President at the Korea Bobsleigh Skeleton Federation in 2021. 
He completed the Master's degree in Business Administration in 1994 at the New York University and is a member at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic games Organizing Committee. 

The IBSF Congress elected him as Vice President of Communication in 2022.

David Tomatis (*1962, Monaco) is a former bobsleigh athlete of the Fédération Monégasque de Bobsleigh, Luge et Skeleton. He has been the Executive Director of the Federation since 2010.
From 1995 to 2011 he was the CEO of Monaco Mediax, a company which organized and developed international events in the media sector such as SPORTEL, Monte-Carlo TV Festival, Imagina, WIMA, Monaco iGaming Exchange and Monaco Media Forum. Before that he was a government officer at the Ministry of Finance, Government of Monaco. Since 2011 David Tomatis has been an advisor to the Cabinet of HSH the Sovereign Prince of Monaco.

In 2010 he was elected Vice President of Marketing and Events of the IBSF.

Martins Dambergs (*1988, Latvia) is a Ph.D. candidate and practicing lawyer in the field of arbitration from Latvia. Since 2015 he has served as General Legal Counsel of the Latvian Bob and Skeleton Federation (LBSF) and since 2017 he has been a member of the Legal Committee of the National Olympic Committee. Since 2013 he runs his own law firm in Riga, Latvia. He is also a lecturer in the field of international arbitration and international private law at the Riga Graduate School of Law and Judiciary Training Centre of Latvia.

In 2018 he was elected Vice President of Legal Affairs of the IBSF. Martins Dambergs is the main point of contact for all questions relating to the Olympic Movement Code on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions.

Christina Hengster (*1986, Austria), active in bobsleigh from 2004 to 2018, is Austria's most successful female bobsleigh athlete. She began her career as a pusher for pilot Silke Zeuner, with whom she placed third in the overall standings in the Europe Cup and took home two National Championships titles. After switching to the pilot seat in 2007, Christina Hengster started racking up the highlights of her sporting career: In 2012 she became Junior World Champion; 2016 saw her place third in the overall standings of the BMW IBSF World Cup and take home the bronze medal with her team at the 2016 World Championships held on her home sliding track in Innsbruck. 2017 also brought her a bronze medal in the European Championships. The Austrian ended her athlete career by taking tenth place at her second Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in 2018.
Christina Hengster has a master’s degree in legal sciences and is working in the personnel department of the Vorarlberg police directorate. Since 2018, she also is Athletes Spokeswoman for the Austrian Olympic Committee. In 2019, the IBSF athletes elected Christina Hengster as Chair of the IBSF Athletes Committee and in 2022 as Co-Chair of the Athletes Committee Bobsleigh. With that, she is also member of the IBSF Executive Committee.

Elisabeth Maier, neé Vathje (*1994, Canada) started sliding aged 14 years old in her home town Calgary. Her first international race was a North American Cup in April 2010 in Lake Placid (USA). Elisabeth Maier had her World Cup Debut in the winter of 2014/2015, ranked second in the first race (Lake Placid), won her second race (Calgary), was later second again in St.Moritz (SUI) and won World Championships bronze in team and individual in Winterberg (GER). Elisabeth Maier married Austrian Bobsleigh pilot Benjamin Maier in summer 2018, a few weeks after both competed at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, so Elisabeth has a deep understanding of both Skeleton and Bobsleigh sports. After giving birth to son Hendrix in December 2018, Elisabeth Maier made her comeback to compete at BMW IBSF World Cup until 2021. In the winter of 2022, Elisabeth and Benjamin Maier, who live in Innsbruck, welcomed daughter Luna to their family. Elisabeth co-commentated several IBSF races, giving spectators of the livestream exciting insights with her profound knowledge of the athletes and the sports.