Teams had gone broke or merged, many were in debt of more than a million dollars. LK Group is a Melbourne-based family of private companies with diverse interests across: property; technology; human resources; business transformation and outsourcing; digital animation and sports. Last year Property Observer reported on the commencement of demolition for the Capitol Grand project in South Yarra. Become a Finest Partner The property developer and owner of the National Basketball League worth $785 million in the 2022 Financial Review Rich List put together two sites on the corner of Williams Road and Bruce Street in early 2020 for around $19 million. [Larry's] really selling a story. The man is Larry Kestelman, a Ukrainian immigrant turned accountant turned property developer turned multi-millionaire businessman and possibly the only man in the Western world to own both a professional sporting league as well as teams within that league. Vince Caligiuri. "Since taking over the league we have been looking at all aspects of the business, and how we could build a proper sustainable business. The biggest coup, however, came in August with the announcement that three NBL teams will travel to the US in October for preseason games against teams from America's elite NBA. Craig Ian Burton biography. ", Larry Kestelman's boat sits at the end of the longest pier in Queensland's Southport Marina, past cabin cruisers and dinghies called Margaritaville and What-A-Bonus. The name stems from being my first-ever business, as cliched as it is, but also that were the first ever professional basketball league to own its own sporting label, Justin says. "), Yet his closest business partners are almost as important. #NBL #NBA #SportsBusiness #SportsManagement #LarryKestelman #SportsBiz #Basketball. We aim to showcase every development in Australia to help you find the perfect new home! Kestelman was born in 1966 in Odessa, Ukraine. Advertise with us #ballislife, A post shared by Justin Kestelman (@justinkestelman) on Oct 5, 2016 at 11:15pm PDT. Staff scurry, spectators shift and it is done. Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you. Perhaps the name rings a bell from the latest Australian Financial Review Rich List,on which Kestelman ranks 85th with an estimated wealth of $749 million. Kestelman will fund the trip. Larry Kestelman, multimillionaire businessman and chairman of the Melbourne Tigers basketball team, has put his Brighton mansion on the market with a price tag of $12 million-plus. Help using this website - Accessibility statement, the $700 million Capitol Grand project in Melbourne's South Yarra. Kestelman points out that, in Victoria at least, some were being held in front of a couple of thousand people at the State Netball and Hockey Centre. If Justin feels any obligation to succeed, its as much to himself as to his father. And wealth brings an ability to influence the things you're passionate about. He offers freely his view that basketball can become the number-one sport in Australia. You might as well have come from the moon. For his 50th birthday last year, Kestelman flew 35 people to the sun-kissed Italian coastal village of Amalfi. The leather good and fashion retailer posted strong double-digit sales growth over the year, but is bracing for a slowdown in 2023. I can see the trajectory," he says. Mr Kestelman has diversified his business interests considerably since selling the internet provider he established, Dodo, for $230 million almost a decade ago. Photo: National Basketball League owner Larry Kestelman took control of the NBL in 2015. John Hancocks family has made a fortune mining iron ore. Down on level one, the office of First Ever is buzzing. "It was done quietly. Kestelman debuted on the BRW Young Rich List in 2005 with Dodo co-founder Igor Gilenko, with a shared net worth estimated at A$87 million. First Ever will supply uniforms and other clothing to junior grassroots and elite teams across Australia, with a portion of every uniform jersey sold going into junior development programs with governing body Basketball Australia. Since 2016, under the leadership of Larry Kestelman, the league's attendance has increased by 54 percent, television viewership is up 48 percent and social media interaction and engagement, perhaps the most important modern day metric, has jumped a whopping 400 percent. In 2015 he spent $7 million on a 51 per cent stake in the league itself. There might have been another crazy dude willing to take this on. [3] Dodo was ultimately sold to M2 Group for $A204 million in 2014. Either way, if you follow athletic pursuits in this country, you'll soon come to know him as the white knight of the NBL. He points out that Kestelman just signed a deal to host the comedic exhibition games of the Harlem Globetrotters when they next tour Australia. With those empty seats filled, he settles in to enjoy the show. See how the race unfolded here. You might have heard of him as the man behind Dodo, the Melbourne-based internet service provider that he co-founded in 2001 and sold in 2013 for $203 million. Its wonderful, and we got a very good permit there. The Stokes familys Seven Group used creep provisions and now sits at 72.6 per cent, after a complex exchangeable notes deal. Now Kestelman has international dreams for the league in the pipeline. "Liking someone is often stronger than being born connected to them," he says, leaning back in his chair. Basketball Now the crowds and buzz in basketball are back, and season 2018-19 is off to a cracking start. I love this sport and everything about it. The Brisbane Bullets play the Chinese national team in a friendly on the Gold Coast in July. Crucial competitive baselines have been established in officiating and player salary. Help using this website - Accessibility statement, block a takeover offer from US-based investment company Coliseum Capital. In the tumultuous history of the NBL, more than 30 clubs have merged or folded. Introduction . The total valuation of Australias 100 richest people aged 40 and under is diminished, but you still need $35 million to get on the list. The world's richest people lost $2.1 trillion between them last year. The standard of play was good but many games were back in those old tin sheds. [1], The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Anthony Pratt, was A$15.77billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Patricia Ilhan, was A$472million; up from A$387million in 2018. He spies it across court, up in the stands. [3], Dodo claimed revenues of $A80 million by 2005 and received a takeover offer from Telstra which was rejected. 'Credit:Jono Searle, Gaze, who now coaches the Sydney Kings, says one of the most important but intangible things Kestelman has brought to the game is his ability to promote it. "You get to see a lot of businesses and how they succeed or the mistakes they make.". Six floors below that is the customer loyalty business Infinite Rewards, digital solutions companies eCal and Etaskr, plus software infrastructure provider Saisei. The 2020-21 NBL season is scheduled to begin in October, however Kestelman has admitted the start date could be pushed back if the COVID-19 situation has not eased. Kestelman asks, eating his scrambled eggs with tomato and feta, the refracted light from the water dappling the wood panel walls of his boat. On a coffee table rests a gleaming model of his latest passion project. Teams had gone broke or merged, many were in debt of more than a million dollars. "One person at a time, one battle at a time," he shrugs. He's gambling his reputation on the resurrection of a competition that only three years ago was on the brink of collapse. His millionaire businessman father, Larry Kestelman, admits that his own passion for the sport also has familial roots. And he has. ", Kestelman was unmoved. Very tall men named Zeng and Zhao, Tao and Gao, Gu, Hu, Yu and Wu shoot jumpers and fadeaways, lay-ups and dunks, swishes and bricks. "Coming from Russia in 1979, everybody presumed you and your parents to be KGB. A high-stakes trial involving two billionaires and royalties from Rio Tinto iron ore mines is set to go ahead. As for play, he travels constantly. "It gives the sport credibility a trickle-down effect that is certain to rub off on the domestic competition. A render of the boutique apartment block proposed for the Williams Road site. Please try again later. 'What I want is to set this up as a successful and sustainable sport,' says Kestelman, 'a place for true local heroes. In 2012 he bought the Melbourne Tigers (now Melbourne United) with his cousin and Dodo co-founder Michael Slepoy. So hard. The US imports came here then and dominated, whereas now they play for experience in a hardened league. "It's gut-wrenching." New executives were appointed, new sponsors were found, a new logo, and a new Brisbane team was formed. "Well," he says, issuing his demand through a pause and flat stare, "we need to fill them. ", Kestelman is executive director of the league but has appointed commercial lawyer Jeremy Loeliger, a former partner at corporate firm Holding Redlich, as CEO. A Ukrainian migrant, Kestelmans rags-to-riches life story has made him a beacon for achievement in Australias business, technology, property, and sporting landscape. You understand what tough is when you come from nothing. The property developer and owner of the National Basketball League - worth $785 million in the 2022 Financial Review Rich List - put together two sites on the corner of Williams Road and Bruce. Kestelman has been watching the steady decline of basketball in Australia, despite the high level of talent, and had to do something. This year, writers went behind the scenes and analysed the big themes that defined Australias year in business and beyond. Kestelman, an entrepreneur who has made his fortune in high-end property development - also co-founding the Dodo internet and phone business, which sold for almost $230 million in 2013 - has done. He would know. He says he named the leviathan ship Vegas because everyone's reaction to that shimmering desert city is a smile. He debuted on the Financial Review Rich List in 2017 with an estimated net worth of A$749 million. In addition to his impressive business credentials, Larry is involved in numerous community initiatives and charities. It was at this time when he made his first foray into property development, and Kestelman's star began to rise. Kestelman is barefoot with the top three buttons of his shirt undone. But one thing's for sure, he's not done yet. He would not have acted otherwise. Larry is the founder and director of Oxygen Ventures, and a lead investor in Saisei. His son will be there, of course, and he can think of no greater joy than their passion being shared in work and play. Co-founding internet provider Dodo (sold in 2013 for $203 million) shot Larry into Australia's richest 100. Growing up an only child in the small port city on the Black Sea, he was carefree but poor; he collected discarded chewing gum wrappers and swapped them with mates like trading cards. Buying the Melbourne Tigers in 2012, then the National Basketball League itself in . Larry Kestelman bought a majority stake in the NBL in 2015. After watching his son play basketball, Larry Kestelman liked the sport so much he bought the NBL. He worked hard, though, and on the advice of a family friend made his first foray into property, the field that would make him wealthy. Mr Kestelman, who founded the internet company Dodo and owned the Melbourne United basketball team, had earlier been a shareholder of the listed Pas Group, and moved to block a takeover bid of the company in 2015 by Coliseum Capital with his 10 per cent stake. A premium parking bay there recently sold for $200,000, while the biggest apartment 550 square metres with a 200-square-metre balcony is valued at around $25 million. Presently, Mr. Burton holds the position of Non-Executive Chairman at Grand Gulf Energy Ltd. and Executive Chairman for TSV Montney Ltd. Mr. Burton is also Member of Australian Institute of Co. Directors and Principal at Verona Capital Pty Ltd. and on the board of 6 other companies. "The majority of my friends I've known for a long time. at I loved pinball. Being in the company of professional athletes stirred something deep within him. The markets will determine what we are worth. "I was more interested in fitting in. A man sits alone on a folding chair at centre court, smiling. Mr Kestelman said there were about 20 apartments yet to sell. In 2017 they were each worth $2.51 billion. And we want to manufacture quality products, so there will be uniform standards.". There are nine in the US league right now (and more on the way) including Patty Mills (San Antonio Spurs), Thon Maker and Matthew Dellavedova (Milwaukee Bucks), Dante Exum and Joe Ingles (Utah Jazz), Aron Baynes (Boston Celtics) and Mangok Mathiang (Charlotte Hornets). ", The Brisbane Bullets play the Chinese national team in a friendly on the Gold Coast in July.Credit:Getty Images, He guesses my first line of inquiry: "I'll begin by asking the question: Why basketball?". So in 2015 he instead struck a five-year broadcast deal with Foxtel to screen every game live. "Once he thinks what he is doing is right, it doesn't matter what people think of him," says Nick Marvin, former CEO of the Perth Wildcats. Larry Kestelman is the immigrant turned entrepreneur who co-founded phone and internet company Dodo, which sold for a cool $230 million. Please enter your username or email address. The company has maintained the rage over the Labor governments industrial relations changes while handing down a huge return for billionaire Gina Rinehart. Chris Ellisons Mineral Resources is talking up its takeover bid for Norwest Energy as Gina Rinehart continues to slug it out with Strike Energy in the battle for Warrego. From left: son Justin Kestelman and Rich Lister Larry Kestelman. The Williams Road sites new owner is local developer JCL Prime, which will pursue the development with builder Henny. He's done all of this with no guarantee that the league will ever be profitable. As of 2017 his interests outside of property included Philippines-based call centre provider Acquire BPO, recruitment agency First Avenue, investment firm Oxygen Ventures, digital content firm Newsmodo, human resources firm Wall Street, customer loyalty provider Infinite Rewards, and software companies eCal, eTaskr and Saisei. "I can't sit around and do everything by committee," he says. His support for the game is both an act of civic philanthropy and an investment. He said PAS Group has returned to strong profitability and was delivering its best results for five years. His parents were part of a wave of Soviet Jews given visas to Western nations. "The first time I heard Larry say that in public, I'm sure I heard laughter," says Fairfax Media basketball writer Roy Ward. ", Kestelman met Pahor five years ago, and was married for two decades before that to Liana Kestelman, also an accountant. Official page of Larry Kestelman - Owner of the Australian National Basketball League & Executive Group. Pickstar shares the most inspiring, weird, and wonderful sports content from around the world, along with exclusive interviews and podcasts with sports stars and leaders in the sports industry. [9] In 2014 he controversially announced that the team would rebrand as Melbourne United. Ordinarily this would not matter, but this particular bay is situated within the crucial span of the camera arc. "Gee, it's going to be a hard task maybe the biggest challenge in Australian sport," says businessman David Hill, the former ABC boss, head of Soccer Australia and one-time chief of the North Sydney Bears NRL club. Its happened in a hurry. Basketball has been that connector., Justin concurs: Basketball isnt a thing without him. Valarie "Larry" Kestelman (born 1966) is an Australian billionaire property developer and businessman. It could take a long, long time. [3] The list included seventeen debutants. "You can see it in dreamland, but probably not in this land where the football codes have such a cultural stronghold.". Alex Connolly is this years youngest member of the Young Rich List after helping create Australias third most valuable privately held tech company. "The main act is the basketball but what happens around it just as important. "My cost of goods was zero," he says. Heres what hes learnt. In the all-important Melbourne and Sydney TV markets, the entrenched AFL and NRL easily held the sporting gaze away from basketball. It's better than shovelling shit or cleaning toilets, but it's not easy It's hard work. And before the NBL could nurture any nascent audience, the football codes awoke to the orange-ball threat and began playing more of their own games at night. He left when he was 11, after his highly educated parents Mum was a doctor running a large gynaecological clinic, Dad an electrical engineer decided they wanted a better life. [2], In September 2001, Kestelman established internet service provider Dodo Services with his cousin Michael Slepoy and Russian-born Igor Gilenko. Were working to restore it. We're on a mission to radically improve the quality of Urban communities being developed across Australia. If you like the jumper, wear the jumper; if you like the whole outfit, you do you. Roberts has an estimated $986 million net worth with Kestelman's worth put at $749 million net worth. ", His first financial commitment was a longstanding sponsorship via Dodo of the Melbourne Tigers, which began in 2003. Lately, that vested interest has added another dimension apparel group First Ever, which Justin is heading to the suite of companies Larry Kestelman oversees from his 16thfloor penthouse office in Albert Park. Before he begins, he wants me to understand some context: "I don't like people who complain about how hard it is to create a career, or how work is tough, or how difficult it is to get somewhere in life. The NBL was founded by former national coach John Raschke in 1979 and grew quickly, seemingly in lockstep with the rising popularity of the behemoth National Basketball Association in the US. If necessary, he will keep fighting. In the past two years he's pumped tens of millions more of his own money into NBL coffers, on stadium deals and star players, an NBL commission (to oversee rules changes and competition standards) and new digital platforms. It is the perfect place to hear his rags-to-Rolexes tale (although as far as watches go, Kestelman prefers the rose gold Audemars Piguet on his wrist today). He has a blindingly successful property career, was founder of Dodo internet company and is the proud, beneficent owner and commander-in-chief of the NBL. The owner of the National Basketball League and Melbourne property developer, Larry Kestelman, is the second highest debutant to make it on the Financial Review Rich List. 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Kestelman's financial investment in basketball is not middling, either. "Certain NRL clubs weren't attracting those numbers.". Larry and Justin Kestleman photographed in Melbourne, 26 September, 2018. Kestelman, who co-founded internet provider Dodo, is one of Australia's richest people, worth approximately $800 million. "This is what happens when you put a serial entrepreneur at the head of a sporting league.". Meet the National Basketball Leagues Kestelman family: together, they live and breathe the competition. As a new NBL season dawns, he looks forward to sitting together as a family, including his 83-year-old mother, and seeing other clans enjoying a couple of precious hours together. He is ranked 85 on the list behind the highest ranking debutant, Perth businessman Tim Roberts who is the son of Multiplex founder John Roberts who is ranked 62. Brokering the sale which sets a benchmark for a permitted development site in the plush suburb was Christies International Real Estates Sean Cussell. He began sponsoring the Melbourne Tigers NBL team in the early 2000s and acquired the team in 2012, immediately sacking head coach Trevor Gleeson. Kestelman believes he's the right man to help PAS Group evolve because of - not in spite of - the fact that he doesn't have hands-on experience running a retail business. We've gone from the depths of despair to a position of immense optimism. Their lowest-paid player gets what our whole team gets paid. He has an extraordinary wealth of knowledge and experience having achieved enormous success in Australia s business, technology, property and sporting landscape. Only soccer is bigger. A recutting of traditional team jerseys in step with the NBLs new era is planned, with a blue strip with a dominant M hanging on a First Ever wall a sign of whats to come. ", Good for his future plans, too, for bringing big international clubs to play here. Mr Kestelman said Queens Lane Capital was searching for more acquisitions and licensing deals with the aim of boosting annual revenue by about 20 per cent a year and eventually considering an initial public offering. Designed by architects Fender Katsalidis, the apartment project is expected to get under way early next year with completion due in 2025. First Ever will also become the official apparel provider to the NBL from the 2018-19 season onwards, meaning it should also manufacture merchandise to sell to fans. In 2013 he sold his company Dodo for $230 million. Help using this website - Accessibility statement. "We're back to being a credible proposition," he says. The owner of the National Basketball League and Melbourne property developer, Larry Kestelman, is the second highest debutant to make it on the Financial Review Rich List. "It's a different ball game. Larry brings with him an extraordinary wealth of knowledge and experience in business development. LK Group operations span Australia, the United States, India, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic. Larry Kestelman Valarie "Larry" Kestelman (born 1966) is an Australian billionaire property developer and businessman. window['fe-co-email-widget-fe-co-email-widget_1'] = {"position":"middle","hasSeparators":true,"theme":"domain"}; Pre speech nerves, least the range looks ???? Larry Kestelman (@nbl_larry) Instagram photos and videos nbl_larry Verified 93 posts 2,807 followers 789 following Larry Kestelman Public figure Official Instagram of Larry Kestelman - Owner of the Australian National Basketball League & Executive Group Chairman of the LK Group. And wealth brings an ability to influence the things you're passionate about. Raphael Geminder owns 47 per cent of the packaging group, which is investing $75m over three years to step up its green push. It just reinforces the demand for sites in the Toorak Village precinct as being a great place to live for downsizers in Melbourne, Mr Cussell said, noting the relative scarcity of development sites in the area. Loeliger was once a promising junior basketball player, and before that a water boy for the South East Melbourne Magic. (The time slot was chosen to precede the popular early-evening cricket matches of the Twenty20 Big Bash League. Not overly political, they were nevertheless worried by what happened to anyone with an anti-communist bent. While hes best known as the face and founder of telecommunications and utilities provider, Dodo, the passionate Executive Group Chairman has most recently become synonymous with his vision for success and sophistication. I spent a lot of energy on that," he says, shaking his head. Philipponnat Champagnes, an Heritage of Tradition and Prestige, African Legend inspires Graff Tribal Collection, Grotta Palazzese, One of the Most Beautiful Restaurants in the World, Monaco Yacht Show 2021: The Oceans Eleven Greatest Superyachts. He struggled through school, focusing on social status rather than scholastic ability. PAS is about 70 per cent fashion and 30 per cent shoes, [Brand Collective] is about 70 per cent shoes and 30 per cent fashion, the Financial Review Rich Lister said. Anchorage bought Brand Collective from Pacific Brands in 2014 and bolted-on Shoes & Sox, a popular childrens footwear chain, four months later. Andrew Gaze, Australia's greatest basketball player, was shocked when the identity of the outfit he had played for from 1984 to 2005 was stripped away. How do you offer a sporting product and a streetwear product? In 2012 Larry decided that simply owning NBL franchise Melbourne United wasn't enough. His estimated personal wealth is around $750 million. It's not the Mercedes it's the Commodore. Facebook Twitter Players went overseas to compete, supporters drifted and sponsors fled. It had the advantage of a long lineage of players going into the English Premier League as well as a strong Socceroos outfit qualifying for World Cups. Inside the NBL, says the game moved swiftly from one played in "tin sheds" in the late 1970s to one that was knocking on the door of major sports status by the '90s. By the 1990s Michael Jordan was the pre-eminent star athlete on the planet, but in an era without live streaming sport, Australian audiences could only catch glimpses of his talent on the nightly news. So part of that is looking at all your verticals, and as we did that we came to the conclusion that there was a lot of leakage away from basketball," Mr Kestelman said. We're selling entertainment. Property was ever present, his developments expanding in unison with his capital base, from small subdivisions and townhouses at first to a 44-unit apartment block in Footscray and a 37-floor building in Southbank. [2], .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}^[note a]: By calculation, the 2019 list is the 36th edition published, despite the reference by Nine Entertainment that the list is the 37th edition published. The days of us doing more boutique ones are behind us.. He co-founded internet service provider Dodo in 2001, which was bought out in 2013, and has interests in various other industries via his holding company LK Group. Co-founding internet provider Dodo (sold in 2013 for $203 million) shot Larry into Australias richest 100. Australian stars Gaze, Bradtke, Vlahov and Heal needed no first names, nor did American imports like Bolden, Copeland, Bruton and Loggins. 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