Director
- Director since 2020
- Bachelor of Commerce
Successful Geelong businessman and lifelong Cats supporter and member Barry Fagg joined the Geelong Football Club board as an appointed director in 2020.
Barry joined the family hardware and timber business, Fagg’s Mitre 10 in 1980.
Over the next 32 years, together with brother Keith, they managed and developed the business. In 2012 the business became a joint venture company (Fagg’s Group Pty Ltd) with Metcash Ltd, and Barry continued as Board Chair. The business now comprises eight Mitre 10 stores, including Belmont Timber, across the Geelong, Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh regions employing over 350 people.
Barry has previously worked with Rio Tinto and has been a director on Victorian and National Mitre 10 boards, including periods as Chair.
Born in Geelong and a lifetime Cats supporter, Barry is also active in the local community, and is currently Ambassador for Anam Cara House Geelong. He is a previous President and Campaign Director of Give Where You Live (previously United Way Geelong). He was an inaugural Director of the Geelong Community Foundation and has served as Chair. He is a past treasurer of the Geelong Art Gallery and past Treasurer of the Geelong College School Council.
Barry’s contribution to the community has been recognised by the Committee for Geelong, who in 2012 awarded him their annual Leadership Award for outstanding leadership to the Geelong community.
He was also awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal for service to the Geelong Community in 2001.
