Partner & Founder
Callum Fergie leads the company’s vision and mission, with responsibility for all strategy, marketing, corporate development and partnership development.
Callum is a strategic and visionary thinker, business-minded with strong creativity and analytical skills. He is a member of the Executive MBA program at the Australian Institute of Business and serves as a keynote speaker for events dedicated to risk management, innovation and business strategy. These include talks to UCLA Anderson Business School Executive MBA Program, Rutgers Business School Executive MBA Program, Duke Corporate Education Singapore, and Michigan State University Executive MBA program.
During the 90s and early 2000s, whilst living in Saudi Arabia, Callum dealt with several emerging, dynamic and complex regional risks and local threats. Directly experiencing several terrorist and insurgency incidents. Throughout his time in the Middle East Callum developed a strong ability of identifying, assessing and managing risks. Building resilience to quickly adapt to adversity, cope with and handle crisis to return to a pre-crisis status quickly. This skillset has taught him how to manage uncertainty within complex and high-risk environments.
Between the late 2000s until 2020, Callum’s entrepreneurial ventures experienced accelerated growth, employing hundreds of staff with scaled operations across 4 continents and clients in 16 countries. Callum has sat on and advised over several boards, including technology start-ups, industry federations, NPOs and a start-up accelerator. He is skilled in building organisations to scale using a risk-based methodology for dynamic leadership teams. This capacity and approach allow him to manage complex risks whilst delivering desired outcomes.
Today, Callum focuses on the Australian market and has engaged with Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders in high-risk industries, including: financial services, healthcare, education, public administration, public safety, real estate, technology, acquisition-oriented, and other high growth industries to help them manage risk, build resilience and accelerate growth.
The Real Person
Callum is an avid adventure sports enthusiast and world traveller. Having travelled to over 50 countries, he is fascinated by different cultures, societies, and ways of life.
