Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is the founder of Sportable Technologies Ltd, a company that focuses on creating technology to enhance the viewing and playing experience of sports. Dugald has been with the company since its inception in 2015. Before that, they worked as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments from 2013 to 2014. Prior to that, they were a Business Analyst at Joule Africa for a brief period in 2012. In 2011, Dugald was a Richard Sandbrook Scholar at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
Dugald Macdonald holds a Master's Degree in Geography & the Environment from the University of Oxford, which they obtained from 2011 to 2013. Prior to that, they also completed a Master's Degree in African Studies at the same university from 2010 to 2011. Dugald'sundergraduate education was completed at the University of Cape Town, where they earned a Bachelor of Business Science degree between 2005 and 2009.
Sportable
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.