Warren Livingstone

Warren Livingstone (born 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian businessman, sports administrator and publican.

He is the founder and managing director of the sports-tourism group Fanatics, the former president of Balmain Rugby Club and Sydney pub owner of 4 hotels.

[1] Livingstone played NSW Schoolboys Rugby League and Cricket and attended Sydney Technical High School in Bexley.

[2] He was a pioneer in the early dot-com boom in Australia before moving to San Francisco in 2000 as founder and CEO of writtenbyme.com a Sydney based dot-com which was funded by a large group of investors including Kevin Weldon and Michael Ball before exiting with a sale to US publisher Simon & Schuster In 2004 he re-established the Balmain Rugby Club (first formed in 1873 but folded in 1919) and bankrolled the club with a roster of high-profile players including Wallabies Drew Mitchell, Matt Giteau, Ryan Cross, Matt Dunning and French star Sebastian Chabal.

Lleyton Hewitt was said to have pulled out of the Davis Cup over the treatment of his unofficial supporters at the Australian Open[7] Fanatics opened offices in Sydney in 1997 and London in 2002 where they sold sports apparel and ran tours to sporting events and the large European cultural events such as Oktoberfest Running of the bulls, La Tomatina and Croatia sailing trips.