Professional sport · ICT and transformation
PNG Hunters
Chief Technology Officer — overseeing technology and organisation-wide ICT for the professional rugby league club representing Papua New Guinea.
Professional sport in hard environments needs the same corporate rigour as any business.
Chief Technology Officer
The story
- Problem
- Professional rugby team in PNG needed reliable corporate ICT across travel, admin, and international operations.
- Constraint
- Geographic complexity and limited prior infrastructure — reliability over novelty.
- Decision
- Chief Technology Officer — organisation-wide technology and ICT leadership, same executive pattern as Knights and Jets.
- Outcome
- Current CTO role — professional club operating with sustained organisation-wide technology and ICT since 2021.
What mattered
- Chief Technology Officer — current role since 2021.
- Organisation-wide technology, hardware, software, management, and helpdesk.
- Professional sport in a complex operating environment — travel, administration, international fixtures.
- Same corporate-systems pattern as Knights and Jets: technology leadership inside the organisation.
The situation
The PNG Hunters operate as a professional sporting organisation across domestic and international rugby league — travel, players, staff, administration, sponsors, and commercial activity, often with lean corporate infrastructure behind a high-profile team.
The work
As Chief Technology Officer I oversee organisation-wide ICT — hardware, software, management, and helpdesk — so the Hunters can operate as a professional club across PNG and international competition.
The role is executive technology leadership inside the organisation, not arms-length technical consulting — the same pattern as Knights and Jets.