Warren Livingstone
Warren Livingstone is an Australian businessman. He is the founder and managing director of the sports-tourism group Fanatics, and the president of Balmain Rugby Club.
Livingstone started out a copy boy for Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper, but founded the Fanatics in 1997 to cater for sports fans that follow Australian teams and athletes around the world. As of 2014, the Fanatics has over 50,000 members and has organised travel for more than 45,000 fans to sporting events including cricket, football, rugby league and rugby union matches, and also major tennis tournaments.
In 2004 he re-established the Balmain Rugby Club and bankrolled the club with a roster of hiigh-profile players including Wallabies Drew Mitchell, Matt Giteau, Ryan Cross, Matt Dunning and French star Sebastian Chabal. Livingstone formed a joint venture between Balmain and the Sydney University club in 2014 to enter the Sydney Stars team in Australia's inaugural National Rugby Championship.
