Jump to content

Geoff Harris: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
added more
change hat
 
(29 intermediate revisions by 20 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Short description|Australian businessman & philanthropist}}
''For the Canadian middle-distance runner, see [[Geoffrey Harris]].''
{{otherpeople|Geoffrey Harris}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Geoff Harris
| name = Geoff Harris
| image =
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = ''[[Wiktionary:circa|circa]]'' {{birth year and age|1952}}<ref name="forbes2015">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/geoff-harris/ |title=2015 Australia's 50 Richest: #50 Geoff Harris |work=[[Forbes Asia]] |date=31 January 2015 |accessdate=14 June 2015}}</ref>
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_date =
Line 13: Line 15:
| resting_place =
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| residence =
| nationality =
| nationality =
| other_names =
| other_names =
| known_for =
| known_for = Co-founder of [[Flight Centre]]
| education =
| education =
| employer =
| employer =
| occupation = Businessman, philanthropist
| occupation = Businessman, philanthropist
| title =
| title =
| salary =
| networth = AUS$975 million <small>(2014)</small>
| term =
| term =
| predecessor =
| predecessor =
Line 28: Line 27:
| party =
| party =
| boards =
| boards =
| religion =
| spouse = div.
| spouse =
| children = 3
| children = 3
| parents =
| parents =
| relatives =
| relatives =
| box_width =
}}
}}
'''Geoff Harris''' is an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
'''Geoff Harris''' (born ''[[Wiktionary:circa|ca]]''. 1952) is an Australian businessman and philanthropist.


==Early life==
==Biography==
Harris is the son of a grocer and World War II veteran who served in [[Rabaul]], [[New Papua]].<ref name="financialreviewpipcoates">Pip Coates, 'To Have And To Hold: Geoff Harris. Worth: $975 million. Rank: 40', ''The Australian Financial Review Magazine'', July 2014, p. 22</ref> He was bullied at school as a teenager, and later dropped out.<ref name="sydneymichael">Michael Short, [http://www.smh.com.au/national/geoff-harris-helping-youth-take-off-20140330-35res.html Geoff Harris: Helping youth take off], ''Sydney Morning Herald'', March 31, 2014</ref>
Born ''[[Wiktionary:circa|circa]]'' 1952,<ref name="forbes2015"/> Harris is the son of a grocer and World War II veteran who served in [[Rabaul]], [[Papua New Guinea]].<ref name="financialreviewpipcoates">{{cite news |author=Coates, Pip |title=To Have And To Hold: Geoff Harris. Worth: $975 million. Rank: 40 |work=The Australian Financial Review Magazine |date=July 2014 |page=22 }}</ref> He was bullied at school as a teenager, and later dropped out.<ref name="sydneymichael">{{cite news |author=Short, Michael |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/geoff-harris-helping-youth-take-off-20140330-35res.html |title=Geoff Harris: Helping youth take off |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=31 March 2014 }}</ref>


Harris is a co-founder of [[Flight Centre]] with [[Graham Turner (businessman)|Graham Turner]] and Bill James in 1981–1982.<ref name="forbes2015"/><ref name="sydneymichael"/> He served as a company executive until 1998 and as a non-executive director until 2008.<ref name="forbes2015"/><ref name="brwlist49">{{cite journal |url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-200/2013/geoff_harris_qY8sJmrokngYHPcCCAq23K |title=BRW Rich 200: 49. Geoff Harris |journal=[[BRW (magazine)|BRW]] |date=22 May 2013 |location=Sydney }}</ref><ref name="brwmansion">{{cite journal |author=Fitzsimmons, Caitlin |url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/investing/year_rich_lister_geoff_harris_for_YdEcnNugFV3YxTdABjQuwM |title=Why rich lister Geoff Harris is letting this Melbourne mansion for $5 a year |journal=[[BRW (magazine)|BRW]] |location=Sydney |date=23 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094030/http://www.brw.com.au/p/investing/year_rich_lister_geoff_harris_for_YdEcnNugFV3YxTdABjQuwM |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, he was its biggest shareholder.<ref name="brwlist49"/> He was also an early investor in [[Boost Juice]].<ref name="brwmansion"/> In 2003, he acquired Top Deck Travel UK with five other investors.<ref name="brwlist49"/>
==Career==
Harris co-founded [[Flight Centre]] with [[Graham Turner (Australian businessman)|Graham Turner]] in 1982. He served on its Board of Directors.<ref name="brwlist49">[http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-200/2013/geoff_harris_qY8sJmrokngYHPcCCAq23K BRW Rich 200: 49. Geoff Harris], ''[[BRW (magazine)|BRW]]'', 22 May 2013</ref><ref name="brwmansion">Caitlin Fitzsimmons, [http://www.brw.com.au/p/investing/year_rich_lister_geoff_harris_for_YdEcnNugFV3YxTdABjQuwM Why rich lister Geoff Harris is letting this Melbourne mansion for $5 a year], ''[[BRW (magazine)|BRW]]'', 23 January 2014</ref> In 2013, he was its biggest shareholder.<ref name="brwlist49"/> He was also an early investor in [[Boost Juice]].<ref name="brwmansion"/> In 2003, he acquired Top Deck Travel UK with five other investors.<ref name="brwlist49"/>


He served as the Vice President of the [[Hawthorn Football Club]].<ref name="brwmansion"/>
He served as the Vice President of the [[Hawthorn Football Club]].<ref name="brwmansion"/>


==Personal life==
In 2013, he was ranked 49 on the [[BRW Rich 200]], with an estimated wealth of AUS$800 million.<ref name="brwlist49"/> A year later, he was ranked the 40th person in Australia, with an estimated wealth of AUS$975 million.<ref name="financialreviewpipcoates"/>
Harris lives in Melbourne.<ref name="forbes2015"/> He is interested in [[military history]], and has visited war sites in Malaysia, Vietnam and France.<ref name="financialreviewpipcoates"/>


===Personal wealth===
==Philanthropy==
In 2019, Harris' [[net worth]] was estimated to be A$851&nbsp;million, listed on the ''[[The Australian Financial Review|Financial Review]]'' [[Financial Review Rich List 2019|2019 Rich List]]<ref name="afr2019"/> and, in 2015, {{USD}}550&nbsp;million, listed last on ''[[Forbes Asia|Forbes]]'' list of [[List of Australians by net worth|Australia's 50 Richest people]].<ref name="Forbes-2015list"/> Harris' net worth did not meet the {{AUD}}472&nbsp;million cut-off for the ''Financial Review'' [[Financial Review Rich List 2020|2020 Rich List]].<ref name="afr2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/the-10-richest-australians-revealed-20201028-p569c7|url-access=subscription|title=The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed|work=[[The Australian Financial Review]]|publisher=Nine Publishing|date=30 October 2020|author1=Bailey, Michael|author2=Sprague, Julie-anne|accessdate=31 October 2020}}</ref>
In 2001, he acquired a building for the Reach Foundation, a non-profit organization whose aim is to help unprivileged young people.<ref name="brwmansion"/>


{{columns-start}}
In 2013, he acquired Cromwell Manor, a $2.5 million historic mansion in [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], a suburb of Melbourne, to rent it for $5 annually to STREAT, a non-profit organization which teaches the homeless skills to start a career in hospitality.<ref name="brwmansion"/><ref name="sydneymichael"/> He has also donated $450,000 to STREAT.<ref name="brwmansion"/> The non-profit is run as a business, and Harris is also an [[impact investing|impact investor]], having invested AUS$55,000.<ref name="brwmansion"/>
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan=2 | Year
! colspan=2 width=40% | ''[[The Australian Financial Review|Financial Review]]''<br/>[[Financial Review Rich List|Rich List]]
! colspan=2 width=40% | ''[[Forbes Asia|Forbes]]''<br/>[[List of Australians by net worth|Australia's 50 Richest]]
|-
! Rank
! [[Net worth]] ([[AUD|A$]])
! Rank
! {{nowrap|[[Net worth]] ([[USD|US$]])}}
|-
| 2011
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2012
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2013
| align="center" | {{nts|49}} {{increase}}
| align="right" | $800&nbsp;million {{increase}}
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2014<ref name="brw 2014">{{cite journal|url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-200/2014/|title=2014 BRW Rich 200 list|journal=BRW (A Fairfax Media Publication)|location=Sydney|date=26 June 2014|accessdate=31 August 2014}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Forbes2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/australia-billionaires/list/|title=2014 Australia's 50 Richest|accessdate=30 June 2014|work=Forbes Asia|date=January 2014 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|40}} {{increase}}
| align="right" | $975&nbsp;million {{increase}}
| align="center" | {{nts|41}} {{decrease}}
| align="right" | $700&nbsp;million {{decrease}}
|-
| 2015<ref name="brw2015">{{cite journal|url=http://www.brw.com.au/lists/interactives/entity.html?entity=geoff-harris&edition=32&questions=819,820&sort=1,asc&page=0 |title=2015 BRW Rich 200 list: Geoff Harris |journal=BRW |location=Sydney|date=May 2015|accessdate=14 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Forbes-2015list">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/geoff-harris/?list=australia-billionaires |title=2015 Australia's 50 Richest: #50 Geoff Harris |accessdate=14 June 2015|work=Forbes Asia|date=March 2015 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|53}} {{decrease}}
| align="right" | $881&nbsp;million {{decrease}}
| align="center" | {{nts|50}} {{decrease}}
| align="right" | $550&nbsp;million {{decrease}}
|-
| 2016
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2017<ref name="afr2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.afr.com/leadership/afr-lists/rich-list/financial-review-rich-list-2017-20170525-gwcvr6 |editor=Stensholt, John |title=Financial Review Rich List 2017 |work=[[The Australian Financial Review]] |date=25 May 2017 |accessdate=8 June 2017 }}</ref><ref name="crikey2017">{{cite news |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/05/26/tmaynes-take-the-top-25-australian-billionaires-as-claimed-by-fairfax-media/ |author=Mayne, Stephen |author-link=Stephen Mayne |title=Mayne's take: The top 25 Australian billionaires, as claimed by Fairfax |work=[[Crikey]] |publisher=Private Media |date=26 May 2017 |accessdate=10 October 2019 }}</ref>
| align="center" |
| align="right" | $637&nbsp;million
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2018<ref name="afr2018">{{cite web|url=http://www.afr.com/brand/afr-magazine/rich-list-overview-20180413-h0yqo5|title=2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?|work=[[The Australian Financial Review]]|date=25 May 2018|editor=Stensholt, John|accessdate=26 May 2018}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|84}} {{gain}}
| align="right" | $867&nbsp;million {{gain}}
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|-
| 2019<ref name="afr2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-10-wealthiest-people-revealed-20190529-p51sj0|title=Australia's 200 richest people revealed|work=The Australian Financial Review|publisher=Nine Publishing|date=30 May 2019|last=Bailey|first=Michael|accessdate=31 May 2019}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|111}} {{decrease}}}}
| align="right" | $851&nbsp;million {{decrease}}
| align="center" |
| align="right" |
|}
{{column}}
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|<small>Legend</small>
|-
!<small> Icon</small>
!<small> Description</small>
|-
|{{steady}}
|<small>Has not changed from the previous year</small>
|-
|{{profit}}
|<small>Has increased from the previous year</small>
|-
|{{loss}}
|<small>Has decreased from the previous year</small>
|}
{{columns-end}}


==Personal life==
===Philanthropy===
In 1999, Harris acquired an A$2.5&nbsp;million house for the Reach Foundation, a non-profit organization whose aim is to provide unprivileged young people with access to mental health, co-founded by football player [[Jim Stynes]] and film director [[Paul Currie (director)|Paul Currie]].<ref name="sydneymichael"/>
He is divorced, and has three children.<ref name="brwmansion"/> He is interested in [[military history]], and has visited war sites in Malaysia, Vietnam and France.<ref name="financialreviewpipcoates"/>

Similarly, in 2013, he acquired Cromwell Manor, an A$2.5&nbsp;million historic mansion in [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], a suburb of Melbourne, to rent it for A$5 per annum to STREAT, a non-profit organization which teaches the homeless skills to start a career in hospitality.<ref name="brwmansion"/><ref name="sydneymichael"/> He has also donated A$450,000 to STREAT.<ref name="brwmansion"/> The non-profit is run as a business, and Harris is also an [[impact investing|impact investor]], having invested A$55,000.<ref name="brwmansion"/>

Harris covers the annual rent for the headquarters of Whitelion Open Family, a non-profit organization for at-risk young people.<ref name="sydneymichael"/>

Harris also provided financial support for the treatment of Hawthorn Football Club player [[Jarryd Roughead]] during his fight against cancer. Roughead had previously found cancerous melanoma in his lip in the 2015 season, only to have it come back in the 2016 season. This required an expensive [[immunotherapy]] treatment, for which Harris paid.<ref name="roughead">{{cite web |url=http://www.hawthornfc.com.au/video/2017-10-07/pcm-alastair-clarkson |title=PCM Speech: Alastair Clarkson |work=[[Hawthorn FC]] |date=8 October 2017 |accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Harris, Geoff
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian businessman
| DATE OF BIRTH =
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH =
| PLACE OF DEATH =
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Geoff}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Geoff}}
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
Line 72: Line 147:
[[Category:Philanthropists from Melbourne]]
[[Category:Philanthropists from Melbourne]]
[[Category:Hawthorn Football Club administrators]]
[[Category:Hawthorn Football Club administrators]]
[[Category:Australian company founders]]
[[Category:1952 births]]

Latest revision as of 16:50, 27 April 2024

For other people named Geoffrey Harris, see Geoffrey Harris (disambiguation).

Geoff Harris
Borncirca 1952 (age 71–72)[1]
Occupation(s)Businessman, philanthropist
Known forCo-founder of Flight Centre
Spousediv.
Children3

Geoff Harris (born ca. 1952) is an Australian businessman and philanthropist.

Biography

[edit]

Born circa 1952,[1] Harris is the son of a grocer and World War II veteran who served in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.[2] He was bullied at school as a teenager, and later dropped out.[3]

Harris is a co-founder of Flight Centre with Graham Turner and Bill James in 1981–1982.[1][3] He served as a company executive until 1998 and as a non-executive director until 2008.[1][4][5] In 2013, he was its biggest shareholder.[4] He was also an early investor in Boost Juice.[5] In 2003, he acquired Top Deck Travel UK with five other investors.[4]

He served as the Vice President of the Hawthorn Football Club.[5]

Personal life

[edit]

Harris lives in Melbourne.[1] He is interested in military history, and has visited war sites in Malaysia, Vietnam and France.[2]

Personal wealth

[edit]

In 2019, Harris' net worth was estimated to be A$851 million, listed on the Financial Review 2019 Rich List[6] and, in 2015, US$550 million, listed last on Forbes list of Australia's 50 Richest people.[7] Harris' net worth did not meet the A$472 million cut-off for the Financial Review 2020 Rich List.[8]

Year Financial Review
Rich List 		Forbes
Australia's 50 Richest
Rank Net worth (A$) Rank Net worth (US$)
2011
2012
2013 49 Increase $800 million Increase
2014[9][10] 40 Increase $975 million Increase 41 Decrease $700 million Decrease
2015[11][7] 53 Decrease $881 million Decrease 50 Decrease $550 million Decrease
2016
2017[12][13] $637 million
2018[14] 84 Increase $867 million Increase
2019[6] 111 Decrease $851 million Decrease
Legend
Icon Description
Steady Has not changed from the previous year
Increase Has increased from the previous year
Decrease Has decreased from the previous year

Philanthropy

[edit]

In 1999, Harris acquired an A$2.5 million house for the Reach Foundation, a non-profit organization whose aim is to provide unprivileged young people with access to mental health, co-founded by football player Jim Stynes and film director Paul Currie.[3]

Similarly, in 2013, he acquired Cromwell Manor, an A$2.5 million historic mansion in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, to rent it for A$5 per annum to STREAT, a non-profit organization which teaches the homeless skills to start a career in hospitality.[5][3] He has also donated A$450,000 to STREAT.[5] The non-profit is run as a business, and Harris is also an impact investor, having invested A$55,000.[5]

Harris covers the annual rent for the headquarters of Whitelion Open Family, a non-profit organization for at-risk young people.[3]

Harris also provided financial support for the treatment of Hawthorn Football Club player Jarryd Roughead during his fight against cancer. Roughead had previously found cancerous melanoma in his lip in the 2015 season, only to have it come back in the 2016 season. This required an expensive immunotherapy treatment, for which Harris paid.[15]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e "2015 Australia's 50 Richest: #50 Geoff Harris". Forbes Asia. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b Coates, Pip (July 2014). "To Have And To Hold: Geoff Harris. Worth: $975 million. Rank: 40". The Australian Financial Review Magazine. p. 22.
  3. ^ a b c d e Short, Michael (31 March 2014). "Geoff Harris: Helping youth take off". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ^ a b c "BRW Rich 200: 49. Geoff Harris". BRW. Sydney. 22 May 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (23 January 2014). "Why rich lister Geoff Harris is letting this Melbourne mansion for $5 a year". BRW. Sydney. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  6. ^ a b Bailey, Michael (30 May 2019). "Australia's 200 richest people revealed". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  7. ^ a b "2015 Australia's 50 Richest: #50 Geoff Harris". Forbes Asia. March 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  8. ^ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (30 October 2020). "The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  9. ^ "2014 BRW Rich 200 list". BRW (A Fairfax Media Publication). Sydney. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "2014 Australia's 50 Richest". Forbes Asia. January 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  11. ^ "2015 BRW Rich 200 list: Geoff Harris". BRW. Sydney. May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  12. ^ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2017). "Financial Review Rich List 2017". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  13. ^ Mayne, Stephen (26 May 2017). "Mayne's take: The top 25 Australian billionaires, as claimed by Fairfax". Crikey. Private Media. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  14. ^ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2018). "2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  15. ^ "PCM Speech: Alastair Clarkson". Hawthorn FC. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoff_Harris&oldid=1221062727"