Bob Stewart is a professor, and policy consultant in the not-for-profit sector, having had 25 years' experience teaching and researching in the sport management field of study at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, where he was the sport management program director.

Aaron C.T. Smith is Professor and Director of the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UC-RISE), and Professor of Sport Business and Innovation in the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London.