Max Cobb has been a member of the IBU Executive Board from 2016-2022, when he stepped down and was appointed IBU Secretary General. He was Vice-President Sport of the IBU Executive Board between 2016 and 2018.
Before his current position he was the president and CEO of US Biathlon where he began in 1989 as the head of the domestic race series after being an active biathlon club competitor during his college years at Dartmouth. In 1990, he was named Assistant Coach and Manager of the National Team, and in 1994 became the Program Director.
Cobb has been a part of every Olympic Games since 1992. He became an IBU Technical Delegate in 1998 and served as Chief of Competition at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Elected to the IBU’s Technical Committee (TC) in 2002, he was the chairman for the period of 2010-2016.
Cobb also had the role of technical delegate at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. As a member of the Executive Board (EB) he continues to work closely with the Technical Committee attending their meetings to ensure a close connection between the TC and the EB. Mr. Cobb is married and has three children. All are active Nordic skiers and two compete in biathlon.