Brian Cook has been Geelong's chief executive since 1999 and the club has prospered under his leadership, winning two premierships after four more than decades of misery. A former Hawthorn player under legendary coach John Kennedy, Cook made his name as an administrator at West Coast, helping guide the fledgling club to two premierships within eight years of joining the AFL. He then narrowly missed out on the AFL’s top job to Andrew Demetriou. A fitness fanatic, he has four times completed the Rottnest Island swim and now lives in Albert Park with his wife, Annette.

In this week's BPL Twenty20 questionnaire, outspoken South Sydney chief executive SHANE RICHARDSON talks about his hero (who's never graced a sporting field), his most over-used phrase and the sport that bores the pants off him.

In this week's BPL Twenty20 questionnaire, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland talks about being beguiled by Viv Richards, where he ranks Shane Warne among our sporting greats - and what keeps him awake at night.

Kevan Gosper competed in the 400 metres at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and was captain of the Australian athletics team at the Rome Olympics four years later. He has spent much of the rest of his life associated with the Olympic movement, being nominated to the International Olympic Committee in 1977 and rising to become its vice president and one of its most high-profile figures. In his life in sport, he was the inaugural chairman of the Australian Institute of Sport and later president of the Australian Olympic Committee. A successful businessman, Gosper was chief executive of Shell Australia. He was also Chief Commissioner of the City of Melbourne, a city where he still lives with his wife, Judy. They have two children, Richard and Sophie.