TEAM

  • James Elvery - Co-Founder & CEO

    James has been in and around triathlon his whole life since watching his father race as a toddler in the 80’s. As an active kid he swam competitively, but growing up all he wanted to be was a top triathlete. James won a few NZ schools titles at high school in the late 90’s, and started racing overseas for NZ at the age of 15. At 18 he finished 5th at the 2002 Junior World Champs in Mexico, and soon graduated to the senior ITU circuit. For 8 years he based himself in Europe, racing on the German Bundesliga and French Grand Prix circuits. His best result was 15th at the ITU World Series race in Madrid in 2011.

    On retiring from racing in 2012 James worked at Specialized Bicycles in NZ during the day in sales and marketing roles. As a non-technical founder, RaceRanger was a passion project for evenings & /weekends. James resigned from Specialized in late 2023, and is now working fulltime on RaceRanger.

    In James’s role as CEO he leads and project manages product development and all aspects of building the business.

    James lives with his wife Tatiana and 3 children aged 7, 5, and 3 in Wanaka, New Zealand.

  • Marcus Clyne - CTO

    Marcus is the engineering brains behind RaceRanger.

    During his extensive career, Marcus has worked on projects for engineering giants such as Rockwell, Zilog and Varian, helped found the telematics and vehicle tracking company TELOGIS, and managed many teams of design engineers.

    He’s also been Involved in projects with CERN, MARS Bioimaging, payments and cloud technology as well as multiple sports technology products.

    Through his own electronics development firm I.L.R. Electronics Marcus leads the technical product development direction for RaceRanger with his own team of specialist engineers, while also assisting and overseeing the work of RaceRanger’s own embedded systems engineers.

  • Dylan McNeice - Co-Founder

    Dylan was a top level swimmer as a teenager. He found triathlon in 2005, and quickly made a name for himself in short course racing as the athlete expected to lead out the swim section of any race. James and Dylan met in 2005, and spent parts of the 2006-10 seasons living together in Germany competing on the Bundesliga circuit.

    In 2013 Dylan was ready to retire from the sport, but entered the long distance Challenge Wanaka for one last big race race – his first at the full distance. He surprised everyone including himself, by winning the race and beating ex world champion and legend of the sport Chris McCormack in the process. This ignited a successful long-distance career which included multiple wins at half and full distance events around the world. Dylan retired from professional racing in 2020. Outside of competing Dylan has been involved in the Professional Triathletes Organisation working with the athletes to assist them in attending international events through the difficult Covid 19 times.

    As a professional in the long-distance segment of the sport Dylan was constantly frustrated by the subjectiveness of the drafting rules and the difficulties faced by both athletes and race officials in managing them.

    Dylan lives in Christchurch New Zealand, and continues to bike and run.

ADVISORS

  • Dave Beeche - Advisor (Strategy)

    An experienced and respected leader, Dave held corporate roles in marketing management, before becoming the CEO of Triathlon New Zealand for 5 years. This led to a move into the event space as CEO of the Auckland Triathlon World Championships event in 2012, 3 years as CEO of Lagardere Unlimited, then 5 years as Managing Director of Ironman Oceania.

    Dave has recently taken up the CEO role for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia – New Zealand.

  • Graeme Woodward - Advisor (Wireless Technologies)

    Graeme has worked at the University of Canterbury for over 10 years as the research leader in the Wireless Research Centre. He has a long career in wireless product research and engineering with past roles at Alcatel, Bell labs and Toshiba.

    Graeme was awarded B.Sc and BE and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Sydney in 1990, 1992 and 1999 respectively. Dr Woodward has authored 12 journal and 50 peer reviewed conference papers and is an inventor on numerous US patents. He has served on several conference committees, including VTC’06, ISSSTA04 and multiple AusCTW workshops. He is a member of APESMA (The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia) and a senior member of the IEEE.

    As a keen amateur triathlete, Graeme is at the grass-roots level of the sport that RaceRanger is focused on.

  • Brad Hurndell - Director & Mainland Angels Representative

    Brad began his career in the Royal NZ Air Force, and then transitioned into product design after earning his honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was instrumental in growing SHOTOVER Camera Systems to be the global leader in high end motion picture stabilisation working with global brands like Red Bull, MotoGP and ABC. As CEO he led the company to a merger with a world leading AR company Churchill Navigation, forming SHOTOVER Systems in 2020 which he is the General Manager.

    Brad has proven success building and leading diverse cross functional teams to design, produce, market and sell world leading products. He is a Chartered Director, the recipient of a Technical Academy® Award, on the board of Mainland Angles Investors and is the Chair of Film Otago Southland.

  • Wayne Hudson - Chairman OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Wayne was a partner at law firm Bell Gully for over 20 years, before forming his own law firm Hudson Gavin Martin in 2007.

    Now semi-retired, Wayne is heavily involved in the local start-up scene. He has been involved with the Flying Kiwi Angels investment group and is a board member of Start-up Queenstown Lakes.

    Wayne has competed in triathlons, is a former president of Cycling NZ and is a keen and competitive age group cyclist.

  • Matthew Pike - R&D Embedded Systems Engineer

    Matthew graduated his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in 2017, and went on to complete a Master’s degree in Engineering, Electrical and Electronics in 2019.

    Matthew has been working full-time on RaceRanger since April 2020. In collaboration with ILR, he has designed the overall system and written the bulk of the firmware code to run the devices.

  • Will Sloane - R&D Engineer

    Will is a casual RaceRanger employee while he completes work on a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He has previously been a full-time fixed-term employee prior to beginning his PhD. His work for RaceRanger has focussed on software development and the connectivity side of the project which includes IoT development and prototyping.

    Will's PhD focuses on designing new channel modelling methods and their applications in modern, mmWave wireless communications.

  • Robin Elvery - CFO

    Co-Founder & CEO James Elvery’s Father, Robin, manages all of RaceRanger’s day to day finances.

    Robin has a background in corporate IT systems sales, marketing, and general management, he earned an honours degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He is also a lifetime triathlete and has represented New Zealand at age group level.

    Robin is currently semi-retired. He owns a consulting firm called Business Assist, where he works as a small business consultant for local companies, assisting with strategic planning and on-going sessions to implement their plans.

  • Erin Montgomery – Graphic Design

    Erin comes from a background of elite level athletes, having competed for New Zealand in middle distance running events. Erin has an extensive background in all aspects of graphic design having worked in a number of freelance roles including for the International Triathlon Union (now World Triathlon).

    Erin is based in Brisbane Australia, and produces all of RaceRanger’s branded content and marketing assets.

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