Investment companies have been established in specific pursuit of backing female led outfits such as Astia, Springboard and EY's Entrepreneurial Winning Women initiative.
Colonel Stirling led the outfit for 14 months before he was captured by the Germans, who had dubbed him the "Phantom Major". He escaped, was recaptured and sat out the rest of the war at Colditz Castle in Germany.
But the hearty-voiced Ms. Merchant and her compatriots soon got the folk-rock bug and she led the outfit through an era when female folkies, like Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman, were becoming the rage.
Every now and then the need for the brace of kits became apparent, but while the band's female singer led the outfit lyrically, her wingman's role was Just To Look Good In A Hat.
The later period of Loxton's tenure was thrown into chaos when most of the leading players abandoned the existing establishment to sign contracts with the breakaway World Series Cricket which offered substantially more remuneration meaning that an almost-entirely new team had to be cobbled together; the 42-year-old Bob Simpson was brought out of a decade of retirement to lead the outfit.
Leading his own swing outfit, he toured the United States, Europe and Asia, including memorable residencies at Manhattan's Rainbow Rooms and Ronnie Scott's in London in the early 1980s.
Leading the pack in outfits we would prefer to unsee is Kristen Stewart, who wore something a bit too Disney-inspired for our liking.
Perhaps it was all about moral absolution, in the same way that lists of corporations-that-care always turn out to be led by outfits like Walmart, Goldman Sachs and Exxon-Mobil.
The current seniors are allowed to ride a bus back to campus while the newly promoted cadets lead their outfits back to campus.
Rothenberg is also a natural salesperson, and, as such, quickly evolved his pitch for Rothenberg from yet another seed-stage fund to a thought-leading outfit willing to make big bets on virtual reality before most people in Silicon Valley saw it as a major opportunity.
