Nico Prien

PWA President and Chairman of the PWA Management Board

Combining industry and media experience beyond his years, with exceptional talent on the water, Nico will provide the steady hand on the tiller to take the PWA forwards. With years of pro level competition experience under his belt already, as well as significant industry experience and one of the most successful windsurfing athlete channels in the sport, Nico has all the tools to lead the important work that the PWA does within the sport.

Robert Stroj

PWA Industry Representative and Vice President

Robert Stroj has been the head NeilPryde designer for over 20 years and under his stewardship, NeilPryde riders have collectively earned more world titles, speed records and event wins than  any other brand.

Robert's design ethos is to leave no stone unturned, which has allowed the brand to achieve new milestones in windsurf sail and rig technology time and time again, and is a perfect foundation to help lead the PWA forwards.

Francisco Goya

PWA Industry Representative and Secretary

Francisco Goya, Former Wave World Champion, originally from Argentina and a Maui resident since 1989, brings a lifetime of dedication to our sport and the 2024 PWA Board of Directors for its second term, with a vision of building the sport of windsurfing one event at a time.

Our commitment is to advance and celebrate the most extreme watersport.

Today's riders of the PWA are the kids from the second and third generations of champions and pioneers who have spent nothing less than their entire lives being nurtured by our culture and continue expanding the boundaries of what is possible. The association continues to push our sport across its non-profit status, driven by the most talented and selfless group of leaders and champions on the Board of Directors I have ever come across, with complete transparency and purpose for all of our stakeholders, and with its sole mission to unite and grow all of our disciplines and sport. We are excited about the future as we continue growing our membership and events in synergy with other tours and events organizers, and we look forward to watching the extraordinary talent of our pro athletes and youth  as they showcase the pinnacle of Windsurfing.

Jordy Vonk

PWA Sailor Representative

An accomplished racer and one of the most friendly faces on the beach, Jordy has seen great allround success in slalom and course racing, as well as being an integral part of the Doutone development team. With an open and progressive approach to windsurfing and life, Jordy brings great enthusiam and a creative mind to the PWA Board, and is an integral part of the progressive evolution of racing discplines within the PWA.

Arnon Dagan

PWA Industry Representative

Arnon has been practicing windsurfing for over 30 years in every way and style, and in countless locations around the world.

He has competed and developed windsurfing equipment for over 15 years, won world class competitions, and continues to work for some of the best windsurfing brands as a team rider and as head tester/developer.

Despite its young age, Arnon's Future Fly brand has consistently been high in the PWA rankings including the Freestyle World Championship which they won in 2021.

Dieter Van Der Eyken

PWA Sailor Representative

Dieter has been fortunate to be able to make his passion his work over the past years. Growing up in Belgium, he was lucky enough to learn windsurfing from my dad at a young age, and has never looked back

After learning the basics of windsurfing he was addicted straight away and has built his whole life around it. Dieter started off with the Freestyle discipline going from Youth Worldchampion in 2009 all the way to PWA Worldchampion in 2015. Since then, he has also dedicated a large amount of his time to the wave sailing discipline, becoming an established figure in the annual wave rankings, with frequent top 10 finishes at PWA events.

Jane Seman

PWA Sailor Representative

Jane has been a prominent personailty at the highest levels of windsurfing since the late 90s and is a familiar face at many of the finest wave sailing spots in Western Australia.

Having built a successful business, and with over 20 years of experience in marketing, strategy and research, Jane’s windsurfing career spectacularly relaunched with great success on the unified PWA / IWT Wave Tour in recent years, where she has consistently placed in the top 5 at events, including a first place in Chile in 2023.

Combining finely tuned business acumen, with a great depth of knowledge and experience in the sport, Jane is well placed offer insight and wisdom as we take the sport into the future.