Paul Lederer


Paul Lederer is the former CEO of Primo Group, and Chairman and co-owner of A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.

Business

Lederer started his professional career by joining his uncle's manufacturing business in his early twenties. In 1985, Andrew Lederer started Primo Smallgoods by buying the Mayfair ham factory in Sydney and Paul Lederer became one of the first 38 new employees. Lederer inherited Primo Smallgoods when his uncle died in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2015, Lederer served as CEO of Primo Smallgoods, until the company was sold in 2015 to JBS for $1.45 billion.
Lederer was listed at number 74 in the Business Review Weekly 2014 Rich List with a net worth of 635 million and in 2017 was ranked as Australia's 73rd richest person., The Australian Financial Review Rich List assessed Lederer's net worth as 1.14 billion.
In recent years the Lederer Group has acquired different multi-million properties.

Western Sydney Wanderers FC

In May 2014 Lederer was part of a four-member consortium that bought the licence to operate the Western Sydney Wanderers FC from 30 June 2014. In 2018, Lederer was elected the new chairman of the Australian Professional Football Club Association.