The club will begin advertising nationally for the new position from tomorrow through the recruitment firm, Randstad Australia.

Club president Damian Irvine told the Leader yesterday that the new Sharks Group CEO would answer only to the board of directors.

In other words, he will make the crucial decisions in all four areas of operations: both Sharks football and leagues clubs, the property development and the stadium.

Leagues club and football club senior management, including the recently appointed chief executive Richard Fisk will answer to him or her.

Irvine said the decision to hire a business/sports management ``top gun'' was part of the "modernising of the Sharks operations'' at Woolooware.

"The Sharks are one brand, one club and we have a clear goal to become the very best club,'' said Irvine, who took over as club president from Barry Pierce, after winning a board

position at the club's annual general meeting earlier this year.

With the Sharks in turmoil on and off the field in 2009, the club's new board has been pro-active in turning around their balance sheet the past few months.

They've refinanced loans, hired and fired in both clubs, begun cutting excesses and finally, have begun introducing off-season money-making ventures, highlighted by the big Day Out At The Park rock concert in November.

Now, despite the development approval, it seems the club won't make any concrete moves about what should be its biggest asset - the Sharks Village - until the Group CEO settles in and oversees the project details.