Richard Goyder

Richard Goyder AO
Goyder in February 2011
Chairman of the AFL Commission
Taking office 4 April 2017
Succeeding	Mike Fitzpatrick
Personal details
Born	1960 (age 56–57) Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Alma mater	University of Western Australia

Richard James Barr Goyder AO (born 1960) is an Australian businessman who has been CEO and managing director of Wesfarmers since 2005. He will resign in 2017 in order to succeed Mike Fitzpatrick as chairman of the AFL Commission (the governing body of Australian rules football).

Goyder was born at Tambellup, Western Australia, and was raised on his parents' farms at Tambellup and Broomehill. He boarded at Hale School, Perth, and then went on to the University of Western Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Goyder played amateur football for several teams in the WAAFL, but did not progress to higher levels.

Goyder is married with four children. His main residence is in Peppermint Grove (a riverside suburb of Perth), though he also owns a holiday home in Augusta and a farm of 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) near Toodyay.

After graduating from university, Goyder worked in various positions at Tubemakers of Australia Ltd., an industrial conglomerate. He joined Wesfarmers Ltd. in 1993, and was initially posted to the company's Business Development Department. He was made managing director of Wesfarmers Dalgety (a subsidiary focusing on rural merchandise) in 1999. Wesfarmers Dalgety merged with IAMA in 2001 to form Wesfarmers Landmark, and Goyder initially stayed on as managing director of the new entity. The following year, he was appointed finance director of the main Wesfarmers company.