Not 12 months ago, Richard Goyder’s life was humming. Despite the agitations of this column, his tenure as chairman of Qantas and Woodside was chugging along, and while club presidents were tiring of Goyder’s search for a successor to departing AFL CEO Gil McLachlan, his leadership of the game was still relatively secure.
Fast-forward to the present and Goyder is bloodied and bruised, staggering from one stakeholder meeting to the next. He’s set in motion his embarrassing exit from Qantas – hastened by Alan Joyce’s sudden share sale in the midst of an ACCC investigation – and AFL circles expect him to begin the process of finding his own successor.
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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
