Bill Middleton graduated from SMTC (AUT's predecessor) and has been the founder, President and CEO of the Corporate Capital Group in New York since 1988. Corporate Capital Group provides investment banking and financial advisory services to Australian, New Zealand and United States companies, with a concentration on merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising transactions. Bill has combined his years of playing rugby in Australia and New Zealand with more than two decades of living and working in the United States by initially serving as a board member of a U.S. company introducing professional rugby to the USA before becoming a member of the USA Rugby Board in 2006.