Previously, Szondy has been a senior accounting partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and head of their Melbourne-based superannuation tax practice.
All ten members of Szondy's "Team Vision" running ticket were elected to the Board, which included former players, Robert Flower and Gary Hardeman, ABC journalist Beverley O'Connor and Szondy's successor as president, Paul Gardner.
[4] During May 2003, Szondy apologised to the club's players, as a result of comments he had made about the football department the previous week.
Szondy had suggested that "drastic action" would need to be taken if the team's poor form continued.
The Demons, however, responded with a win the following week against Port Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club senior coach Neale Daniher was widely defended by the football community, including by fellow senior coaches Mick Malthouse and Denis Pagan.