SUNS CHIEF SHOOTS STRAIGHT INTO POWER TOP 50
BARELY six months into the job, Gold Coast Suns CEO Mark Evans made one of the biggest announcements in the club’s history – that our team would join the wildly-successful AFL women’s league in 2020.
Two months after that, he signed a $1 million fiveyear sponsorship deal with Cover-More Travel Insurance, after the team had been short of a major sponsor for more than a year.
Mr Evans has debuted straight to the top 50 of the Gold Coast Bulletin’s Power 100 list this year, coming in at number 46.
He has already laid groundwork for an evenbetter 2018 – turning around the team’s Commonwealth Games lockout of Metricon into a positive – selling the home games to Perth, Cairns and Shanghai and making some dollars for the club.
Mr Evans is among the third instalment of 20 entrants to the list, revealed exclusively to subscribers at goldcoastbulletin.com.au today.
Others landing positions between 60 and 41 include real estate agents, developers and politicians.
The latest edition joins numbers 100-81 which were revealed on Saturday and numbers 80-61 which came out yesterday.
Further instalments will be unveiled exclusively for subscribers of goldcoastbulletin.com.au daily this week, ahead of the release of the full list in a 32-page gloss magazine inside the Gold Coast Bulletin on Friday.
The magazine will also include data on where powerbrokers have tracked in the past eight years, stories about those who fell off the list this year and a new feature on Coast power couples.