The venture, run day-to-day by executives of Forrest's private Minderoo Group such as head of investment John Hartman and Western Force CEO Mark Sinderberry, also has several former rugby and soccer executives working on the logistics.Īmong those are Stuart Taggart, a sports futurist who worked on the successful 2003 Rugby World Cup and the ill-fated 2022 soccer World Cup bid, and consultants Eugenie Buckley and Ian Alker, according to one organisational chart doing the rounds. Stefan Postlesįorrest's steering committee includes Geoff Stooke, a long-time Western Australian rugby identity and managing director of Standard Wool Investments and former Wallaby and now Resolute Mining chief executive John Welborn. Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, is said to be involved with ANdrew Forrest's new rugby competition. The people involvedįor rugby, Forrest has already gathered a group of business identities and executives to work on the venture which in all likelihood will not launch until 2018 at the earliest. He's also thrown himself headlong into causes such as ending slavery and many other philanthropic endeavours. His business history would suggest no one should write off the person who endured his fair share of failure before turning Fortescue Metals Group into a huge iron ore miner and made himself one of the wealthiest people in the country. So can "Twiggy" pull it off? Can he really establish a sports league that is estimated to cost $20 million to run each year? As for Forrest, big names like Chinese billionaire Jack Ma have been mooted as potential partners in his venture, officials in Hong Kong have reportedly been receptive to the idea and sources close to Forrest insist there has been a tidal wave of interest from potential players, coaches, broadcasters and sponsors keen to join the show.
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