Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
He is the current chairman of the Australian Football League having succeeded Ron Evans in the position in 2007. He has been an American Federation of Labor-Congress commissioner since 2003. He mainly played the key position of ruckman.
He managed to combine his football with engineering studies at the University of Western Australia and in 1975 he was awarded a two-year Rhodes Scholarship to attend Saint John"s College Oxford, where he was involved in the Oxford University Australian Rules Football Club.
He also signed to play with the Carlton Football Club in the then Victorian Football League, but only managed a handful of games in these years. He was then named captain of Carlton in 1980 and led The Blues to consecutive premierships in 1981 and 1982.
He represented both Western Australia and Victoria in state representative football and was captain of the 1982 VFL Team of the Year. At the end of the 1983 season he surprisingly retired from football and established a career working as an adviser in the John Cain government"s Victorian Treasury Department.
His career then took him to New York where he worked for International Investment Banks - Merrill Lynch and Cr Suisse First Boston.
In 1994, he set up Hastings Funds Management, a successful superannuations funds company of which 51 per cent was sold to the Westpac Bank in 2002. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Rio Tinto Group. Among other positions held he:
was previously a director of Telstra, Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited and Pacific Hydro. was a former chairman of the Australian Sports Commission. was chairman of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation and Treasury Group Limited.
was a director of several of Hastings" Managed Investments.
He is a current board member of the:.