Quote: "Rugby man leading the search for league chiefs
Brad Walter
December 9, 2010
AN AUSTRALIAN Rugby Union board member is overseeing the search for directors of rugby league's new independent commission.
John Mumm, whose son Dean plays for the Wallabies, is in charge of board services and CEO practices with international recruitment consultancy Spencer Stuart.
The company has been appointed to determine the skills directors of the new Australian Rugby League Commission need, and then to find candidates with the appropriate credentials to fill the eight positions.
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A subcommittee comprising representatives of News Ltd, the ARL and South Sydney chairman Nicholas Pappas, who was appointed on behalf of the NRL clubs, will then choose the inaugural directors to lead the commission.
It was decided to appoint outsiders to ensure the process was transparent and non-partisan.
Spencer Stuart is considered one of the world's leading executive search recruitment companies. It has 51 offices in 27 countries.
Mumm has been with the company since 1993 and led its Australian operations for 15 years. He served on Spencer Stuart's global board of directors for five years.
He is also a long-serving member of the ARU board and in April was re-appointed for another three years. Dean was a member of the Wallabies squad that last week returned from an end-of-season tour that included a Bledisloe Cup win over the All Blacks in Hong Kong and Tests against England, Wales, Italy and France.
Another of Mumm's sons, Greg, is the director of rugby with Sydney University and Fiji's forwards coach for next year's World Cup in New Zealand. John's father, Bill Mumm, played for the All Blacks.
Quote: JB Down Under "This is amusing, Dally will have a fit!
Probably not an issue but some irony in a ARU man being responsible for putting together a RL IC that will put another nail in the coffin of RU in this country!
david moffat was a former nrl boss
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