Presenters and Panel Members
Alex Alt: Presient & CEO - Stack Sports
As President and CEO, Alex Alt leads the entire Stack Sports organization and manages all elements of the fast-growing business. Alex has a proven track record of scaling businesses and delivering innovative technology solutions underpinned by a highly customer-centric service and support model. Prior to Stack Sports, Alex served as President of Sabre’s fast-growing Hospitality Solutions business. During his tenure as President, Alex tripled the size of the business and firmly established Sabre Hospitality as the leading global provider of SaaS solutions for the hospitality industry. Alex has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA from the University of Texas.
Wing Cheung - Deputy GM Digital Strategy & Insights - Sport Australia
Wing leads the Digital Strategy and Insights team in SportAUS, focusing on the digital transformation of SportAUS to be a digital exemplar, building digital infrastructure to support the sport sector to improve their digital capability and drive the use of data and evidence-led insights for SportAUS to achieve our Sport 2030 objectives.
Sam Mutimer: Founder & Director - Thinktank Social
Sam grew her agency as a result of breaking her leg, playing rugby, back in 2008. Not one to rest on her laurels and wait for an opportunity to come knocking, she decided to make the most out of her down time, and posted her injury on YouTube as advertising space for businesses to then ‘bid’ for, in order to get their brand seen online. Unsurprisingly, the video went viral and received over 27,000 views in a matter of days. Watching the volume of inquiries flood through justified the value of great content and solid network connections for brands on social platforms... and an idea was formed. Thinktank Social was born in 2009, and over the past 10 years the agency has been working with a diverse set of industries, such as sporting organisations/associations, sports clubs, retail, finance, health & wellness along with personal brands such as athletes, CEO’s, sales teams and board members. Thinktank Social’s core objective is to continually add value to the end consumer via social media marketing. As a dynamic speaker and presenter, Sam has featured on Channel 7 news, and has been interviewed by the Financial Review, The Age and The Herald Sun. She’s an active board member at Rugby Victoria and guest lecture at RMIT. Her saying in life is “With everything you do in life, do it with enthusiasm and substance or not at all” -Sam Mutimer
Lisa Hasker: CEO - Vic Sport the peak body for Sport in Victoria
Lisa prior to the Vicsport role, Lisa was the General Manager of Community and Stakeholder Relations for Basketball Australia where she managed commercial operations, participation programs, events, marketing and media. Lisa has studied Physical Education, Exercise Science, Sport Management and holds a Masters of Marketing. Lisa has a wealth of industry knowledge and experience including Board positions at AFL SportsReady Foundation, Shooting Australia, Athletics Victoria and Australian Sponsorship Marketing Association. A former Manager of La Trobe Sport at La Trobe University, Lisa also served as Manager of Public Affairs and Sponsorships at the Victorian Institute of Sport, CEO at Little Athletics Victoria, Marketing Manager at Golf Victoria and Head of Sport and Physical Education at Wesley College.
Andy Graham: General Manager - SportsTG, Stack Sports
Andy has been in his current role at SportsTG for over 12months, based out of our Melbourne Headquarters. Andy brings a 25-year history of leadership in innovation and software, including past roles with Catapult Sports, Civica, and Boeing. A qualified lawyer and Fulbright Scholar he is a past member of the Professional Standards Board of Intellectual Property Australia.
Grant McCabe: CEO - Glory League
Grant McCabe is the CEO of Glory League, the automated video system for everyday basketball. Glory League provides players, coaches and supporters full game video, player highlights and statistics after each game as well as numerous other features and benefits for Basketball Associations. More than 100 courts and over 60,000 players use Glory League in Australia, New Zealand and the US and 80% of all account holders use the system after a game, spending 10+ minutes on the site per visit/session. Glory League has been created to provide an amazing experience for players, and multiple benefits for basketball associations including coach and referee development, player retention, social media content, improved player safety and sponsor engagement. Grant is from New Zealand and formally managed the NZ national sports awards (the Halberg Awards), was the General Manager of the Auckland Stars NBL basketball team and was a sponsorship manager for the Wellington International Rugby 7's. He has played Basketball for 25 years and still runs around with a bunch of has-beens every Wednesday night (where they love watching there Glory League).
Cam O'Riordan: Director of Sales & Marketing - Stack Sports
Cam heads up the Sales & Marketing team at Stack Sports he has been with the business for 5 years working in previous roles as an Account Manager & Commercial Manager working across all major clients in United Kingdom, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Cam is passionate about sports and technology driving change, innovation and implementing technology solutions to meet the customers needs. Cam is excited about the global reach that Stack Sports has to implement solutions for elite sporting clubs down to community-based grassroots organisations. Prior to his time at Stack Sports, Cam spent 8 years working with the National Rugby League implementing technology solutions for the National Governing Body right down to community-based grassroots clubs and associations.
Simon Merritt: Senior Associate - Landers & Rogers Lawyers
Simon is a Senior Associate in the Sports Business Group at Lander & Rogers, is an experienced sports lawyer practicing in the sport, recreation and not-for-profit sectors and advises a variety of clients. Simon's practice involves working closely with national and state sports organisations, professional leagues and clubs, racing clubs, venues, event operators, and charities and not-for-profit organisations to achieve positive sporting and commercial outcomes.
Rob Flude: Head of Digital Services - Basketball Australia
Rob is currently the Head of Digital Services at Basketball Australia, having managed the national database – The Basketball Network – in 2018. He is responsible for the organisation’s digital assets and their commercialisation as the sport undergoes a wave of hype in Australia on the back of national team success and a number of new heroes who are plying their trades in the NBA and WNBA. Originally from Cape Town, Rob has worked in Technology roles for some of the world’s leading financial, retail and e-commerce institutions. He is the co-founder and Head of Digital & Communications of The Final Whistle, a start-up that assists athletes and sports organisations with career transitions. He also sat on the Australian Rugby Business Network’s committee as the Communications & Technology Manager. Rob has travelled to 42 countries, but now spends a large portion of his time with his wife and children, and participating in Masters Rugby, touch rugby and CrossFit.
Anthony Richardson: Director of Digital - Stack Sports
Anthony Richardson is a pragmatic Digital Lead with product ownership, business development, innovation and delivery experience, within the eCommerce, Sports and Finance industry.
Anthony has a proven, successful background owning lines of revenue and driving project delivery. He has influenced at executive level and has a track record for building enduring relationships.
Patrict Barrett: CEO/Founder - Ecal
Patrick is the Founder and CEO at ECAL, and can be credited with creating the modern 'calendar marketing' segment we see today. ECAL's 'Sync to Calendar' marketing technology is relied upon by millions of users globally, and the company works directly with hundreds of major sports brands. Clients include the likes of Premier League, NBA, Major League Soccer, ICC Cricket, Ticketek, plus most major sports in Australia, and very soon, this technology will be available across the SportsTG platform and GameDay app.
Shannan Gove: CEO/Co-Founder - Rosterfy
Shannan is an expert in large scale paid and volunteer workforce operations for major events. Since starting Rosterfy (the global leading workforce management CRM built specifically for the sport and events industry) in 2015, Shannan has a proven track record working with the worlds largest events including numerous Super Bowls, World Cup's and large scale events across 5 continents. With Rosterfy now powering the workforce behind numerous sporting federations, national tournaments and World Cup's he has great knowledge on best practice to engage, empower, and incentivise a sustainable workforce for the events industry.
Andy Edwards: CEO/Founder - GeoSnapshot
Andy is a highly experienced executive with an outstanding track record of leading, growing, and monetising organisations in the media & technology space. He is currently the founder and CEO of GeoSnapShot, a business that inspires photographers to capture sports events, enables sports clubs to monetise photography and provides participants with memories of their sporting achievements. He has driven GeoSnapShot from individual grass roots events to now supporting some of the largest sporting organisations globally.
Paul Hoon: CEO - etrainu
Paul is the CEO of etrainu and is responsible for growth across several sectors Domestically and Internationally. An Experienced Executive with a demonstrated solutions focus in the Learning and Development Industry. Key areas of focus is large scale deployment of learning utilising technology to reduce the administration expense to organisations.