New Board to be Announced Within a few Days

[Muffstar]

how the hell can the club recover with 2 women with no league experience on the board , I would have thought we needed as much experience as possible, this is crazy.

Bit sexist, but I think it is great to have a different perspective.

Canterbury recently appointed their CEO who came from a Netball background I think.

Running a football club nowdays is like running a business, so I think with the business expertise the new board members bring will be great for the club and will point us in the right direction going forward. I am sure they won't be afraid to make the hard decisions as they have no bias either way for the old part of the JV.

 

[westTAHger]

Onwards and upwards now for wests-tigers.The new board can do their stuff.
No doubt there will be some hard decisions made, some we as fans may or may not like, but in reality it's not up to us. If it was, we would be on the new wests-tigers board.

Maybe we all should TAHger , every Forum member is on the board and then we fight until one winner is left and he decides on the fate of the Tigers 😱pen_mouth:

I would be no good at that, :smiley: I would spend too much time, insisting the score was 25 -18 each week in wests-tigers favour. :laughing: :wink:

Back on topic, I am looking forward to a new beginning, and sure that wests-tigers will rise from this mess they are currently enduring, and play consistent finals footy.

 

[Alf_Duguid]

Great news. A pretty impressive board with business acumen, which is exactly what we need. Put all this Balmain & Wests crap behind us

The Football GM can then run the footy side. I just hope we target the right candidate

 

[the_third]

"Rosemary Sinclair is CEO of Immediate Solutions, a boutique consultancy practice focused on strategy development, technology impacts, stakeholder engagement, governance and government relations. She is a Member of the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency and recent past Chair of the Regional Telecommunications Inquiry Review Committee.

Immediately prior to her ACMA role, Rosemary was Director, External Relations, at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales."
http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/About/Corporate/Authority/authority-members-acma

Mr Lucio Di Bartolomeo
Mr Di Bartolomeo is a professional Director and current Chairman of Macquarie Generation; non executive Director of Australian Super Pty Ltd; and is National President of Australian Industry Group. Prior to this he was Managing Director of ADI Limited and FreightCorp and non executive Director of Downer EDI. Mr Di Bartolomeo is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport Australia Inc and a Member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. Mr Di Bartolomeo has extensive experience in the rail, infrastructure, engineering and defence industries, having worked for many years in the rail industry both locally and overseas.
http://www.artc.com.au/Content.aspx?p=26

Marina Go is the publishing director of Private Media, publisher of Women's Agenda, Crikey, Smart Company, Property Observer, StartUp Smart & Leading Company. She started her career as a journalist and has been editor of some of Australia's leading women's and newspaper-inserted magazines and held senior positions at EMAP Australia, Pacific Publications and Fairfax. She is a member of Netball Australia's Audit & Risk committee, the Sydney Symphony Vanguard, and a director of Odyssey House McGrath Foundation. Marina has an MBA from The AGSM.
http://www.storyology.org.au/speakers/marina-go

Interesting skill sets in there

 

[Demps]

you know the wests tigers are struggling…
fighting every where from the top right down to the bottom*
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*wests tigers forum

 

[clontarfkid]

Having waited some 6 months ,theyre not quite as …um...well credentialled as Id hoped for,but theyre certainly more accomplished than the directors they replaced & shld be given every opportunity.
Having said that,I cant help but think that David Smiths politically correct "oestregen overkill" is more about a publicity grab beneficial to the image of the NRL than the long term benefit of WT,but we are where we are....

 

[Newtown]

There was no one with little league experience on the previous board and that got us to where we are now…I think if you stop for a second and look at their Business credentials you might be surprised....what has being a women got to do with it....

Which is why they are recruiting a GM of Football operations....the Board handles the business direction of the Club...The GM handles the football side....smart move IMO..

You will never please everyone i suppose...

I agree entirely. Why keep bringing in ex-players or officials into the board whose biggest financial experience was running a chook raffle. Each of these new members, including the two women (ladies) bring a wealth of management, financial marketing and media experience each of the former board members could only dream of having. Wests Tigers are now taking positive steps to become a respected professionally run organisation.

 

[Pokies]

I wonder if the board will have the final say on who we hire in the role of football GM?

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[Cultured_Bogan]

Couldn't give a stuff whether the ladies knew a thing about league or not. We need them to know a thing or two on how to be resourceful and how to effectively appropriate limited funds into key areas.

Hope they're a pair of ball busters to be honest and don't take crap from anyone.

 

[Telltails]

Couldn't give a stuff whether the ladies knew a thing about league or not. We need them to know a thing or two on how to be resourceful and how to effectively appropriate limited funds into key areas.

Hope they're a pair of ball busters to be honest and don't take crap from anyone.

Totally agree

 

[tig_prmz]

I wonder if the board will have the final say on who we hire in the role of football GM?

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as far as i know how big corporate companies works is Board (lead or represented by Chairman) is at the top of the heirarchy. the ceo (who will mainly deal with the finance stuff) is an employee, same as the new GM (who would be more in a football and creative role).

the ceo, GM, coach etc. report to the board and the board gets the final say. the board makes sure the 'integrity' of the organisation is kept intact with every decision and is profitable.

well that is how an organisation "should be" ran afaik

this is what i remember from going to an intro to business convention ~5 years ago so i could be completely wrong or absolutely on the ball. mind you i was 15/16 back then.

 

[tig_prmz]

I wonder if the board will have the final say on who we hire in the role of football GM?

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as far as i know how big corporate companies works is Board (lead or represented by Chairman) is at the top of the heirarchy. the ceo (who will mainly deal with the finance stuff) is an employee, same as the new GM (who would be more in a football and creative role).

the ceo, GM, coach etc. report to the board and the board gets the final say. the board makes sure the 'integrity' of the organisation is kept intact with every decision and is profitable.

well that is how an organisation "should be" ran afaik

this is what i remember from going to an intro to business convention ~5 years ago so i could be completely wrong or absolutely on the ball. mind you i was 15/16 back then.

 

[cqtiger]

I wonder if the board will have the final say on who we hire in the role of football GM?

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as far as i know how big corporate companies works is Board (lead or represented by Chairman) is at the top of the heirarchy. the ceo (who will mainly deal with the finance stuff) is an employee, same as the new GM (who would be more in a football and creative role).

the ceo, GM, coach etc. report to the board and the board gets the final say. the board makes sure the 'integrity' of the organisation is kept intact with every decision and is profitable.

well that is how an organisation "should be" ran afaik

this is what i remember from going to an intro to business convention ~5 years ago so i could be completely wrong or absolutely on the ball. mind you i was 15/16 back then.

Prmz
Not far away. However, not every company is run the exact same way ie public v private companies. Typically the board should be seen but not heard in the "day to day" workings of the company. That's the CEO's job.

I would think though that the board would need to authorise any senior position within that company. It's not a rubber stamp by any means although if the CEO is good at his job they usually agree with the appointment or nomination.

I am happy with the new board members. They will listen to the board members that have footy nous but I am absolutely sure that they will make their own minds up. They didn't get to where they are in the business world by being "yes" men/women.

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[Coastie_Tiger]

Let me the first to say that Marina seems a real Go getter.

 

[tig_prmz]

Thanks mate. Good to know I wasn't that far off.

And agree with the doc.

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[Geo]

https://www.facebook.com/bigleaguemag/photos/a.107061759362054.10300.106145749453655/696683073733250/?type=1&fref=nf

The revamped Wests Tigers board will meet for the first time this Sunday following the NRL's announcement of new members today.
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Three independent non-executive directors will meet with two Wests Ashfields representatives to form the new board, which has been in planning since January.
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Australian Communications and Media Authority employee Rosemary Sinclair, former Netball Australia board member Marina Go and Australian Rail Track Corporation board member Lucio Di Bartolomeo join current Wests Ashfields representatives Simon Cook and Tony Andreacchio on the new panel, **with plans to include two Balmain Tigers representatives once the club's debt is cleared.**

Interesting article from Big League…Looks like Balmain have no representation on the Wests Tigers Board until the debt is repaid...

I originally thought that they had 2 non voting members...unless I'm reading it wrong...

 

[Mccarry]

Let me the first to say that Marina seems a real Go getter.

Agree, she did very well with the media. The NRL have some quality leaders in place from the business world. I am confident that they will have selected well.

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[softlaw]

I can;t believe that some people are worried that these people aren;t well enough 'credentialed'. Try a quick google on them.

Di Bartolomeo has recently chaired (ie. been in charge of) an international consortium that won an 8.3billion (yes, with a B) contract for the North west rapid transit Link. It's the biggest transport construction in Australia atm! There's probably only 50 or 60 people in Australia who have the cajones, contacts and sheer ability to swing that.

This is while he was also Chairmen of a major NSW power company that owns two of the biggest power stations in Australia, the NSW president & deputy national president of the Australian Industry Group (the peak Australian industry lobby group) and on a few other boards. That's completely ignoring his career before that in Australian Defence Industries/ Thales - a massive company and some major transport roles . This guys cv is freakish.

Then there's Marina Go, a young, incredibly successful woman who just happens to hold the reins for most of the seriously influential womens magazines in Australia as well as a very powerful & successful background covering pretty much every major journalistic group in the country. Now who'd want that sort of skill set and influence?? & on top of that, we're trying to grow our brand with young families where most of the spending decisions are made by mum. A mum who has probably grown up reading and being influenced by Ms Go's body of work, ideas and ideals.

& Rosemary SInclair - very serious ties with Government, industry and academia across the whole spectrum of the telecommunications industry. The industry that determines what, when and how everyone sees, hears and follows the game.

These people are all very, very successful in their field(s) and those fields cover exactly what we need to have a top notch head office, and as Jack Gibson said - a successful team starts with a well managed front office. These 3 give us probably the best credentialled head office in the game, & I reckon they will prove that very quickly.

Also, generally people like that get there by being very cognizant of what they don;t know - and getting top notch experts to fill those skill gaps. The football manager will be a very important position.

On top of that, we are the first of the NRLs new business model clubs. It's in the NRL's interests for this to work, and work very well. They have a lot of skin in this game and that can only help us.

Thankfully that direction from the NRL has meant that we haven;t fallen for the typical attitude that we must have some ex-player knuckle draggers or club sycophants who've been riding on the game and the club's shirttails for their whole career because they happen to know how to run a sausage sizzle. That's what we (& most other clubs) have had for years and it means that Rugby League is 30 years behind where it should be.

This is a fantastic result for the club, second only to the 2005 premiership as the best thing that has happened to our club.

Great work from the NRL & the club!

ps - it's also interesting to see that the 2 Wests directors are getting very little coverage - they're a real estate agent (who also is a director for Wests Ashfield) and a Wests Ashfield director. Hopefully they can add a little local knowledge (although the 3 independents are all Sydney) and other than that they keep their ears open and their mouths shut.

 

[mctiger]

I wonder if the board will have the final say on who we hire in the role of football GM?

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as far as i know how big corporate companies works is Board (lead or represented by Chairman) is at the top of the heirarchy. the ceo (who will mainly deal with the finance stuff) is an employee, same as the new GM (who would be more in a football and creative role).

the ceo, GM, coach etc. report to the board and the board gets the final say. the board makes sure the 'integrity' of the organisation is kept intact with every decision and is profitable.

well that is how an organisation "should be" ran afaik

this is what i remember from going to an intro to business convention ~5 years ago so i could be completely wrong or absolutely on the ball. mind you i was 15/16 back then.

Prmz
Not far away. However, not every company is run the exact same way ie public v private companies. Typically the board should be seen but not heard in the "day to day" workings of the company. That's the CEO's job.

I would think though that the board would need to authorise any senior position within that company. It's not a rubber stamp by any means although if the CEO is good at his job they usually agree with the appointment or nomination.

I am happy with the new board members. They will listen to the board members that have footy nous but I am absolutely sure that they will make their own minds up. They didn't get to where they are in the business world by being "yes" men/women.

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They will provide strategic direction establish business plans and will likely set the tone for the culture of the club through vision and mission statements and values. The clubs actions will be guided by these over the next few years. It will be upto to the CEO to create and implement these strategies. This will likely include revenue targets, cost management, membership targets amongst other internal strategies. The CEO will have a huge part to play over the next few years.

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[Geo]

Great Post Softlaw..very well said..

When you listen to Smith in the presser …Wests Tigers future looks bright..very impressed the way Marina Go spoke as well ..handled the Media like very professionally