Toby Jenkins
Born
Brisbane, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
Occupations
  • Athlete
  • businessman
  • author
EmployerBluewire Media
Known for2004 Olympic Water Polo Player
Board member ofQueensland Olympic Committee
Websitewww.tobyjenkins.com.au

Toby Jenkins is an Australian water polo player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and collector of Toby jugs.[1][2][3]

Career

Water polo

Jenkins played in the Australia men's national water polo team and played Water polo at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Jenkins' water polo accolades also include being named in Queensland Water Polo's Players of the Decade 2000-2010,[4] Queensland Water Polo's Male Player of the Year in 2001–2002, 2004–2005 and 2005–2006.[5] He was Sportsman of the Year at University of Queensland in 2001.[6] Jenkins won the Australian National Water Polo League Championship with the Brisbane Barracudas in 2004 [7] and with the Queensland Breakers in 2007.[8]

Jenkins serves as an Executive on the board of the Queensland Olympic Committee.[9]

Business

Jenkins is also an entrepreneur, CEO, author, speaker and podcaster. He co-founded his company Bluewire Media with Adam C Franklin in 2005.

In 2009, he was featured on Australia's Hot 30 Under 30 List of Entrepreneurs.[10] In 2010, he collaborated with David Meerman Scott on the Web Strategy Planning Template which they co-branded.[11]

In 2014, Jenkins published the book Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches (Wiley 2014) with his co-author Adam C Franklin.[12] Jenkins co-hosts the podcast Web Marketing That Works.[13]

In 2015, Toby was one of 13 Olympians interviewed for the book 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse.

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Toby Jenkins". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  2. ↑ "404 Page Not Found - Water Polo Australia". www.waterpoloaustralia.com.au. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  3. ↑ "Australian Olympic Committee: Toby Jenkins". olympics.com.au.
  4. ↑ "Home - Water Polo Queensland". www.waterpoloqld.com.au.
  5. ↑ http://www.waterpoloqld.com.au/fileadmin/...qldwp/.../Life_Members_04.doc%5B%5D
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "Barras Hall of Fame – Brisbane Barracudas Water Polo Club".
  8. ↑ "About Us – Queensland Breakers Waterpolo".
  9. ↑ "Australian Olympic Committee: Executive & Staff". olympics.com.au.
  10. ↑ "Toby Jenkins and Adam Franklin | SmartCompany". Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  11. ↑ LLC, Freshspot Marketing. "Free Marketing Strategy Planning Template". www.davidmeermanscott.com.
  12. ↑ "Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches". Wiley.com.
  13. ↑ "Web Marketing That Works on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts.
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