The Wayne Borg Tapes: Racism, Dead Workers, and the Executive Culture Inside NEOM

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Wayne Borg NEOM Racist Audio

In September 2024, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation into the executive culture at NEOM that contained recordings, testimony, and internal documents describing an organisation in which racism, contempt for worker safety, and managerial brutality were not aberrations from the project’s character but expressions of it. The investigation centred on Wayne Borg, an Australian national who had served as NEOM’s Managing Director for Media, Entertainment, Culture and Fashion Industries since September 2019. Before NEOM, Borg had been CEO of Fox Studios Australia, President and General Manager of Fox Studios in Los Angeles, Executive Vice President for International at Universal Pictures, and Deputy CEO of Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 media zone authority. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Warner Bros, Walt Disney Co., PepsiCo, and Unilever. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Leadership from York St John University and completed a leadership programme at Harvard Business School. He was, in every conventional measure, a senior entertainment industry executive with blue-chip credentials.

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The Wayne Borg Tapes: Racism, Dead Workers, and the Executive Culture Inside NEOM

Wayne Borg NEOM Racist Audio