Mark Korda is an Australian businessman and former

president of the Collingwood Football Club The president of the Collingwood Football Club is the highest role at the "company". The president has the ultimate responsibility for financial and business management. There have been 13 presidents of the Collingwood Football Club. The first an ...

. He is also co-founder of

KordaMentha KordaMentha is an Asia-Pacific advisory and investment firm that provides specialist consulting, forensic, real estate, restructuring and investment services. The business was formed in April 2002 by Mark Korda and Mark Mentha. KordaMentha has ...

. Korda studied at

Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access ...

and later received an honorary doctorate from the university.

Collingwood Football Club president

Korda was appointed to the

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at the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

in May 2007, after five years at his company,

. Following the resignation of long-time

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Eddie McGuire, Korda, along with Peter Murphy, took over as interim Co-Presidents on February 10, 2021 until the announcement of the next President. Korda was announced as the thirteenth

on 21 April 2021. Korda, having been in the role for less than a month, saw his vice president at Collingwood,

Alex Waislitz Alex Waislitz (born 1958) is an Australian businessman. Waislitz was elected to the Collingwood Football Club Board of Directors in 1998, elected as vice-president in 2009, and has provided philanthropic support to the club. Early life and ed ...

, resign effective immediately. His vacancy was filled by two co-vice-presidents, Indigenous businesswoman Jodie Sizer and former Collingwood player

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. Former cyclist and medical practitioner

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was appointed to the board following Waislitz's resignation. On 15 September 2021, having been on the Collingwood board for 120 days, O'Donnell resigned effective immediately, citing the magnitude of the role. On 6 October 2021, Korda announced his resignation as president, but remained in the role until 16 December 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Korda, Mark Living people Businesspeople from Melbourne Australian chief executives Collingwood Football Club administrators Year of birth missing (living people) Swinburne University of Technology alumni