Co-Founders Ian Robson and Zane Haupt bring a wealth of experience and perspective from their
career journeys both here at home in Australia and abroad.
Ian Robson has built a reputation of international standing as a global CEO across a career of
nearly four decades in multiple sports and jurisdictions. Operational capability and delivery,
underpinned by an unconditional commitment to culture, integrity, stakeholder management and
sustained high-performance outcomes, has been the hallmark of his career.
Zane Haupt, in the cut throat worlds of global high-performance sport, venture capital and
property development, has forged a reputation as an alternative thinker and solution creator in
the face of complex problems. Seeing a new way through, when others just see roadblocks, is the
key to his passion and fierce desire to unlocking value.
These diverse backgrounds, and a strong set of aligned values, underpin the establishment of RHA.
Our application is intentionally broad because the opportunities we work on are not confined to
one industry sector. We can work with established organisations and emerging businesses, public
and private asset owners, governments and institutions, sporting organisations, investors, founders and boards. What connects those engagements is not sector. It is the presence of meaningful opportunity, complexity and the need for experienced people who can see across boundaries
and deliver through them.
We are comfortable in the boardroom and at the project table; with an early-stage idea and with
a major asset; with founders and institutional stakeholders. We understand strategy and execution,
investment and operations, public interest and commercial return. We know when specialist
expertise is required and have the relationships to assemble it.
Most importantly, we take responsibility for momentum. We do not see our role as ending when
the recommendation is made. Where appropriate, we remain alongside the client and broader
team to turn the recommendation into reality.
That combination — entrepreneurial perspective, global access, commercial judgement,
investment experience, operating expertise and delivery capability — is the Robson Haupt
Advisory proposition.


