NZ Rugby’s Brent Impey: my biggest regret

NZ Rugby’s Brent Impey: my biggest regret
Retiring NZ Rugby chair Brent Impey will stay on as a director.
Victoria Young
Brent Impey stood down as NZ Rugby chair on Monday after seven years amid debate on the biggest structural change in the organisation’s professional history.While he leaves the position ahead of closing a deal to sell a 12.5% stake for $387.5 million to US tech investment firm Silverlake, his biggest regret in the job is far more long term.“There’s always things you could have done better,” he said.“I don’t think we’ve made as much progress on participation, at schoolboy or schoolgirl level. A lot of th...

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