Gary Elphick, Founder and CEO – Disrupt Sports

Gary is founder and CEO of DisruptSports.com, a platform that allows customers to design their own sports equipment and manufactures them on demand. Disrupt is a Telstra accelerator company, Optus 2016 Start-up of the year and winner of the 2015 Australian Digital Summit.

Gary is the Optus Young Entrepreneur of year andwas awarded top specialist marketer under 30 by B&T magazine. Prior to this Gary has built several community and commercial digital platforms, he spend four years working in Sports and Technology marketing for a Sydney based agency. In a past life Gary trained to be an oil trader, has travel blogged for Tourism Australia and held various NFP roles including Ca Catalyst in residence at UNSW and now Macquarie uni where you’ll find him helping students ‘find a better way’.

Gary Elphick

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