Stephen John Barclay

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: The Cup is a medium-size business, employing over 100 people, with tens of millions of dollars a year in revenues and expenses.

Barclay's event was marred by the death of Andrew (Bart) Simpson in a capsize. Subsequent investigations prompted the US Coast Guard to permit the event only if the competitors were bound by the 37 recommendations of the investigations committee, because they would be part of the permit.