Mark McCormack is an entrepreneur extraordinaire Daily Telegraph
Mark McCormack was named by Sports Illustrated as 'the most powerful man in sports'. A college golfer, he worked at a Cleveland law firm when he began representing a young unknown named Arnold Palmer. A host of sports celebrities in golf, tennis and other areas followed and today the company WME/IMG represents a wide array of events and clients ranging from the Nobel Foundation to Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic to Colin Montgomerie.