Stephen John Barclay is a New Zealander who has worked in the real estate business as well as the government sector, and who was the CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority for the 34th America's Cup in 2013 during the inauguration of the AC72 wing-sail catamarans. Barclay was a member of the 2010 America's Cup winners, BMW Oracle Racing. Barclay is a former Oracle Team USA chief operating officer and was also a director of Core Builders Composites a 100 per cent-owned subsidiary of Oracle in Warkworth, New Zealand. Core Builders produced the 40m-high wingsails for the AC72 and AC45 boats. Barclay stressed in an op-ed the nature of the event: