Meet our team
Bob Turner
Chairman
Bob is one of Australia’s most recognisable and respected sports personalities. He has worked with NBL teams the Canberra Cannons, Sydney Kings and Singapore Slingers. He was honoured by the NBL in 1999 as a Hall of Fame inductee. During his distinguished career Bob has applied his skills to a variety of sports including being chairman of the Sydney Blue Sox and Chief Adviser to NSW Baseball. Bob is currently also the chairman of the Blacktown City FC.
Bob believes that Squadnet provides a real, valuable communication solution for the next generation in sport.
Chris Barton
Co Founder
Chris is a start up entrepreneur and investor with a track record in building consumer tech solutions.
His passion today is building start ups that are aligned with his personal values with a focus on health, fitness and wellbeing models. He has a particular passion for community sport and the widespread social and health values that sports bring individuals and their communities and he is proud of the positive disruption that Squadnet is making in this area.
Vuong Ngo
Co Founder
Vuong is a passionate Technologist with a background in HR. He has a strong track record of delivering multiple successful tech projects alongside his own sides hustles.
His strengths lie not just in his technical abilities but his razor-sharp focus and understanding of product and the continual need for a great product market fit which he is always passionately focussed on at Squadnet.
They say some businesses start by accident, some by clever design, Squadnet was actually born out of a sick bed...
In March 2020 Chris Barton was lying in bed for weeks struggling to recover from a debilitating virus and had lots of time on his hands to think.
One thing that was frustrating him was the inability of his son Hamish to effectively train in his sport Taekwondo. Hamish had just returned from medaling at the US Open Taekwondo championship and was not able to return to normal training with the new COVID lockdowns in place.
As well as building a home gym, Chris lent on his years of playing sport and his close involvement in sporting clubs to come up with the idea of creating a new online training tool for coaches and athletes.
Chris jumped on the phone to his good friend and developer, Vuong and Squadnet was born.
After many months of market research and chatting with clubs they discovered that there was a broader opportunity and gap in the market for a modern app, one that could assist clubs, coaches and trainers more effectively engage and communicate with their communities.
Squadnet pivoted in this direction and began testing with sporting clubs and rebuilt their app specifically to enhance club communication and member engagement and started to gain some real momentum.
The journey has only just begun for Squadnet and they are proud to be growing their business out of Western Sydney.
When not working on the app you will find Chris & Vuong in the Gym or working on their jump shots...
Come and share in the journey by following their socials or drop an email anytime at info@squadnet.io
