Rod Harys

Rod Harys has had a very successful executive career in sport administration, as CEO of the Sydney Kings, Chief Commercial Officer at Volleyball Australia and more recently as head of sponsorship and strategy at Helloworld Travel.

Rod had an idea about 12 months ago to create a marketplace for fans to access unique money CAN buy experiences via sporting and entertainment experiences, welcome to FAN+. He noticed on a flight to Melbourne, reading the Qantas inflight magazine that Qantas was accepting applicants for their innovative Qantas AVRO start up accelerator program. Rod applied and after a competitive selection process his platform was selected as 1 of the 3 start-ups to be put through the 3 month Qantas AVRO Slingshot program. Rod took the leap of faith and left the corporate world to enter the world of unpredictability of start-ups.

The Qantas program helps start-ups accelerate their business and give the start up some initial funding and access to the Qantas business units to work toward a formal partnership and supply agreement with Qantas. This program has been invaluable to Rod and FAN+, in a 12 week period they have signed over 14 sporting organisations across Australia and over 50 individual personalities to create some very unique experiences which can be viewed at WWW.FANPLUS.COM and also secured 4 leading Australian business people as investors into FAN+.

Qantas has helped Rod and FAN+ achieve so much in such a short time.  Rod is excited to graduate from the program on the 9^th of October and really excited to officially launch FAN+ into the market.