Summary
Murray Bird is a seasoned sports product and operations leader with 25 years’ experience across grassroots, professional and international Australian football, and 11 years focused on sport technology and product leadership. As Chief Product Officer at Rookie Me and founder of Status Sport/Interchanger, he has translated deep competition and club-level insight into practical match-day and coaching apps used across state leagues and thousands of community teams. He combines strategic roles in governance, athlete welfare and event management with hands-on product development, market research and commercialisation. Murray holds a First Class Honours Master of Sports Management and is the author of multiple sports history books, revealing a rare blend of academic rigour and storytelling. Not obvious from his title: he has run sports programs at national scale in Papua New Guinea and pioneered tech that brings pro-style rotation and statistics to community clubs. Based in Brisbane, he’s an entrepreneur who moves fluidly between board-level strategy and the product detail that improves outcomes for players and clubs.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Sports Management, First Class Honours, Master of Sports Management, First Class Honours at Griffith University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Literature and Politics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Literature and Politics at The University of Queensland
Senior Certificate, Senior Certificate at Villanova College