It’s Monday, 9.30am and HMC Capital’s conference room in Sydney’s prestige Gateway building is bursting at the seams. People are perched on window ledges, seated around the long table and zooming in.

The pace is fast, and content wide-ranging: a meeting confirmed with a superannuation fund, updates on real estate leases. The room ponders the arrival of American executives who run StratCap, a key part of the DigiCo data centre business HMC is floating on Friday. They might need to ditch the golf shirts, HMC’s chief executive David Di Pilla suggests. The shirts could be a good icebreaker, capital markets boss Robbie Vanderzeil counters.