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Stirling is a former international rugby union player, known for his physicality and strong leadership. In a career spanning 15 years, Stirling earned 140 Super Rugby caps and 80 Wallaby test caps. He captained Australia from 2006-2010 and in 2012 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to rugby.
While still playing professionally, Stirling joined Citi Institutional Equities and then moved to NAB in various Wealth Management and Institutional roles. After 10 years of corporate life, Stirling transitioned into a boutique Advisory firm specialising in Alternate Investments (predominantly technology), servicing UHNW Advisors and Family Offices.
In 2019, Stirling attended the Japan RWC, sparking his interest in combining his love of sport with his expertise in technology and financial services. He subsequently consulted to the 2031/2033 USA Rugby World Cup Bid, and founded XV Capital in 2020 with ex-teammate James Godfrey.
Stirling sits on various private and not for profit Boards including XV Capital, Sportable Australia, GAINLINE Analytics, Cohesion Capital (Chairman) and The Rugby Club Foundation (Treasurer & Chair of the IC). He is a former Board member of the Melbourne Rebels, the Rugby Union Players Association and the US RWC Bid Partnership.
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James represented Australian Schools, U21’s and Barbarians, before transitioning into the business of sport in 1997, joining Godfrey Pembroke as GM of athletesfirst.
Post MLC’s purchase of Godfrey Pembroke, James continued to work in wealth management with Invesco Asset Management, Apsley Recruitment and Godfrey Group (founded in 2004).
From 2010, James has combined sport and financial services as a Director - SEQ Sports & Entertainment finance, Head of Sport - Newington College, GM - Foundation at NSW Rugby, CEO - Loyals Rugby, Consultant – 2031/2033 USA Rugby World Cup Bid and Founding Partner at XV Capital.
He sits on various private and not for profit Boards including XV Capital (Chairman), intaneous, Cohesion Capital and NSW Positive Rugby Foundation. He is a former Board member of the Major League Rugby and the US RWC Bid Partnership.
Guy currently serves as President of North America Bolton Equities (BE), a private company offering growth capital investment and governance expertise. BE is sector agnostic with investments in sport, fin-tech, tech enabled services, healthcare and manufacturing. Guy serves on BE’s Investment Committee and represents the company on various investee Boards. Guy is also Chairman of Rugby New York and serves on the Major League Rugby (MLR) Board of Governors. Prior to BE Guy had 25 years’ experience in leadership positions in pharmaceuticals and healthcare technology.
Chris owned and operated a number of businesses in the Automotive Parts and Database management space. For over 25 years He built these businesses from concept to exit. Before moving into consulting and sitting on various boards. Now Chris is a private investor with a focus on Property and Sports Technology.
Chris is also heavily invested in Rugby. Coaching at many levels, currently at Gordon Rugby and also sits on the Clubs Foundation Board. He is also one of the original contributors to the New South Wales Positive Rugby Foundation.
John James is the Managing Director of Vanguard Institutional Investor Group based in Malvern, Pennsylvania in the USA. John has been a member of Vanguard’s global executive team since 2016. John has spent 15 years at Vanguard and has also led both Vanguard Australia based in Melbourne and Vanguard Europe/UK based in London before his current role.
Prior to joining Vanguard John was the CEO of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL and was CEO designate as Port Adelaide won its first AFL premiership in 2004. His sporting background was in squash where he was a member of South Australian Sports Institute and represented South Australia at both a junior and senior level.
John has a MBA from Adelaide University and also has completed executive programs at both Wharton Business school and Michigan Ross school of business.
Angus Wilson is a Senior Managing Director of FTI Consulting Limited specialising in Corporate Finance and leading several of the FTI’s Market initiatives.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Angus was a Partner at KPMG Australia where Angus lead the firm’s Clients and Markets function for Deals, Tax and Legal, the firm’s Deal Advisory M&A practice for KPMG Australia and ASPAC Tax practices. Angus has extensive tax experience in Australia, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
A graduate of the University of Technology with a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Angus is a member of the Taxation institute of Australia.
Angus is a Member of the Advisory Board of NSW Positive Rugby Foundation, Board Member of Sydney University Football Club and Board Member of NSW Country Positive Rugby Foundation.
Mark Cameron is the Founder and CEO of Alyve, a Digital Transformation management consultancy who are experts in complex digital strategy and delivery and an award-winning Telstra Partner.
A leading digital transformation and emerging technology thinker, Mark is also the only Australian to be inducted into an exclusive group of specialists from around the world regarded as Certified Experience Economy Experts.
Member and contributor to the Forbes Technology Council and a regular writer and columnist on digital strategy for publications including BRW, Marketing Magazine and The Australian Financial Review. Mark is also on the advisory council for Harvard Business Review. Mark currently runs the Digital Transformation Leadership Masterclass at Deakin University’s Executive MBA program and is designing an Innovation & Entrepreneurship degree, also at Deakin.
In addition, Mark is a mentor in the RMIT Activator. Mark is a mentor and course designer for Academy Xi, mainly focused on strategic digital transformation. Strategic advisor to executives and board members in private businesses, ASX listed organisations, and all levels of government. Strategic advisor to the Australian Arts Council in 2020 as part of their COVID-19 Digital Recovery Strategy. Member of the AI Thinktank for NSW Government.
Our executive team
Stirling is a former international rugby union player, known for his physicality and strong leadership. In a career spanning 15 years, Stirling earned 140 Super Rugby caps and 80 Wallaby test caps. He captained Australia from 2006-2010 and in 2012 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to rugby.
While still playing professionally, Stirling joined Citi Institutional Equities and then moved to NAB in various Wealth Management and Institutional roles. After 10 years of corporate life, Stirling transitioned into a boutique Advisory firm specialising in Alternate Investments (predominantly technology), servicing UHNW Advisors and Family Offices.
In 2019, Stirling attended the Japan RWC, sparking his interest in combining his love of sport with his expertise in technology and financial services. He subsequently consulted to the 2031/2033 USA Rugby World Cup Bid, and founded XV Capital in 2020 with ex-teammate James Godfrey.
Stirling sits on various private and not for profit Boards including XV Capital, Sportable Australia, GAINLINE Analytics, Cohesion Capital (Chairman) and The Rugby Club Foundation (Treasurer & Chair of the IC). He is a former Board member of the Melbourne Rebels, the Rugby Union Players Association and the US RWC Bid Partnership.
James represented Australian Schools, U21’s and Barbarians, before transitioning into the business of sport in 1997, joining Godfrey Pembroke as GM of athletesfirst.
Post MLC’s purchase of Godfrey Pembroke, James continued to work in wealth management with Invesco Asset Management, Apsley Recruitment and Godfrey Group (founded in 2004).
From 2010, James has combined sport and financial services as a Director - SEQ Sports & Entertainment finance, Head of Sport - Newington College, GM - Foundation at NSW Rugby, CEO - Loyals Rugby, Consultant – 2031/2033 USA Rugby World Cup Bid and Founding Partner at XV Capital.
He sits on various private and not for profit Boards including XV Capital (Chairman), intaneous, Cohesion Capital and NSW Positive Rugby Foundation. He is a former Board member of the Major League Rugby and the US RWC Bid Partnership.
Rob has worked in the Australasian sport and entertainment industry for more than 20 years. After practising law for a number of years he joined IMG as in-house legal counsel before moving to the ARU (now Rugby Australia) to head up player contracting and collective bargaining agreement administration. Rob then spent over 4 years with sports marketing agency Sport & Entertainment Limited (SEL), during which time he was responsible for talent management, commercial rights sales, account management and legal and business affairs.
After SEL, Rob joined the team at CSM Sport and Entertainment as Managing Director, Australia. At CSM Rob was privileged to represent a number of rights holder, event and brand clients, including Cricket Australia, Netball Australia, Supercars, Invictus Games2018 Sydney, Jeep, Hisense, HSBC, Specsavers and Legacy NSW. In a career with many highlights, Rob is particularly proud of his work with Netball NSW in establishing Giants Netball and helping to drive their off-court success and the positive impact they have had on netball across the State.
Most recently, Rob has conducted an independent review of the funding and delivery of community sport in Auckland, New Zealand, run two Manu Samoa rugby matches, including a RWC 2023 qualifier versus Tonga, consulted to XV Capital Advisory, performed a strategy and governance refresh for GainLine Analytics and assisted New Zealand’s five Super Rugby clubs form a commercial collaboration arrangement.
Along the way Rob has also been involved with sports marketing, talent management and event businesses SponsorCom (GroupM), Esportif and SuperFoiler GP and was privileged to spend more than three years on the boards of each of Surfing NSW and SportNSW.
Marnie has extensive experience in the financial services industry having held a number of senior roles within the Westpac and St.George Wealth Businesses. Most recently, Marnie led BT's investment research, governance, data insights and disclosure functions with responsibility for oversight and monitoring of a $150 billion portfolio of investments across a broad range of asset classes.
Prior to this, Marnie worked for JPMorgan Private Bank in London in their Manager of Managers division, catering specifically for Ultra High Net Worth Clients within the EMEA region.
Marnie is a Director, founding member and current Chair of FICAP, a charity formed in 2006 by the financial services community in Sydney.
A keen rugby union supporter and player welfare advocate, Marnie is actively involved in grassroots rugby, and was previously a Sydney Chapter Ambassador for the Queensland Brain Institute’s concussion research program.
Our consultants
- Former representative level and 12 year professional rugby player
- National level youth rugby coach
- Executive leadership coach
- Athlete welfare coach
- Leadership workshop facilitation
- Rugby commentator for CBS, ESPN, FOX Sports USA
- Major League Rugby TV Show Host for FOX Sports USA
- Media skills coach
- Founder of Winning EQ leadership consulting
- Emotional intelligence education
- Same Here Global Mental Health Alliance
Matt is a sports lawyer by trade, practicing for more than 16 years exclusively in action and lifestyle sport, media and entertainment. Most recently, Matt drafted the “Lifestyle and Action Sports Hub" Strategy Paper for the 2032 Olympics in South East Queensland on behalf of the Queensland Academy of Sport and continues to practice through his sports legal and strategy firm, Evolve Sports Group.
He has held multiple leadership and executive positions including current roles as President of Bowls Australia, Board Member of the Global Action Sports Foundation in California and Chair of the High Performance Selection Committee for Skateboarding in Australia . Further to these positions, he recently provided strategic or legal advice to Champion Data, WPGA Tour, PGA Tour, Skate Australia, Australian Institute of Sport and World Surf League and owns The Athena golf tournament.
Matt’s strength is bringing new media opportunities for fan engagement to traditional sports, which must include quality stakeholder engagement and agile solutions in a fast-moving sports landscape.