Ant operates at the intersection of AI, emerging technology, venture creation, customer behaviour and commercial strategy.
As a proven founder and global strategist known for his pattern recognition expertise, Ant helps leadership teams identify where industries are heading before the market fully catches up. His work focuses on uncovering hidden growth models, behavioural shifts and AI-driven opportunities that traditional business structures often miss entirely.
Leadership teams engage Ant to connect signals across culture, technology and commerce to uncover opportunities that become meaningful competitive advantages.
Drawing on experience across technology, media, hospitality, sport and consumer businesses, Ant has built and scaled ventures, advised executive teams and led innovation programs that transform emerging trends into tangible commercial outcomes. He combines a founder’s mindset with strategic discipline, helping organisations move from insight to execution.
Through Second Thesis, Ant works with founders, CEOs, boards and investors to challenge conventional thinking, identify non-obvious opportunities and develop clearer strategies for growth in rapidly changing markets. His approach is centred on a simple principle: the most valuable opportunities are often hidden in plain sight, waiting for someone to connect the dots before everyone else does.
Brendon is a commercially driven executive with deep experience leading businesses through transformation, strategic re-sets, and large-scale growth.
His background spans enterprise leadership, digital transformation, operational turnaround and M&A. He has hands-on experience leading a business with $400m revenue and 1000+ staff through transformation, major market disruption, strategic acquisitions, and successful private equity outcomes. His passion is now consulting to scale up technology businesses at the bleeding edge of emerging technology and AI.
A strategic advisor known for his ability to bring clarity to high-stakes business environments, Brendon works closely with leadership teams to solve problems that sit beyond traditional strategy: aligning operations, people, financial performance and execution to drive measurable commercial outcomes.
Leadership teams engage Brendon when growth becomes more complex, execution matters and businesses need commercially grounded decisions that move quickly from strategy into action.
