Career innovator, entrepreneur and leader.

Born in the UK, I ended up travelling the world racing a bike. I never quite made it to a top pro team or the Olympics, but got close. As a Masters athlete, I won medals on the road and track at State, National and even World Championship level. Settling in Australia in the 90’s I had developed an obsession for finding ways to make people go faster.

The following decade was devoted to coaching cyclists and triathletes; eventually setting up and up running the Victorian Institute of Sport Triathlon Program and working with the National Triathlon Team during the “golden years” of Australian Triathlon.

Through my time as a coach, my role gradually shifted from developing new coaching techniques to looking for money for the program. Eventually, I transferred these skills to the emerging world of software for the internet.

There then followed a period of overseeing the development of hundreds of websites and apps for other clients, until emerging technology trends and an accident on a dark, wet morning on Melbourne’s Beach Road combined to form the beginnings of FulGaz.

By this point, I had one of the first KICKRs, and the next logical step was to build an app and try to recreate rides indoors. All of a sudden, all those years riding, studying, coaching and developing projects to tight budgets came into play.

FulGaz development started in mid-2014 as a regular Friday “Hackathon” by the team working on apps for other clients the rest of the time. This basically consisted of me saying “No, riding a bike doesn’t feel like that” until eventually, it did feel just like riding outdoors.

Fast forward a few years, and FulGaz grew to the point where it was an attractive sports technology acquisition. It is now part of the IRONMAN group, and has become the app of choice for many of thousands of athletes around the world.

My role at IRONMAN is focussed heavily on creating the virtual training experiences that athletes will use to improve their performances in the future.