Patrick Furlong has more than 40 years of broadcast experience, focussing almost exclusively on sport since 1992. In 1996, after a 28 year career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he moved to Malaysia to work for the ABU, and has worked exclusively in Asia ever since. Whilst with the ABU he was the ABU’s Head of Production Operations for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
PTFI Media was formed in 2002, after Patrick had finished his contract with HBS as COO for the Host Broadcast of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. As PTFI Media, Patrick was broadcast consultant to the Organizing Committees for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Moroccan bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In that time he also worked on the Master Plan for the 2006 Asian Games. In 2004 he was appointed as Director Broadcast and Media Services for the Doha Asian Games, and is recognised as the driving force behind the hugely successful Host Broadcast coverage and Media Services delivery of those Games.
Since 2007, PTFI Media has provided consultancy services to the Olympic Council of Asia and is currently consulting to the Organizing Committees for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and is negotiating to provide Patrick’s services to, the 2010 Asian Beach Games in Muscat and the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Almaty and Astana.
