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Team TIBCO traces its origins back to the Palo Alto Bicycle shop in 2002. Olympian Linda Jackson became involved with the team in 2005, with the goal of helping aspiring female athletes make it to the top. In just four years, Team TIBCO has risen from being a local cycling team to # 1 in North America. The team won the 2009 USA Cycling NRC team competition, the Women’s Prestige Cycling Series team title, and was named top team in North America by VeloNews. To top it off, Meredith Miller won an epic U.S. National Road Championship.
For 2010, the goals will be even higher – and far-reaching – as the team makes inroads into Europe. In addition to getting it’s riders ready for the 2012 London Olympics, the 2010 squad, TIBCO/To the Top Racing, will also focus on motivating children across the country to reach for the top and achieve their dreams.
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Linda Jackson
Team Founder & President
Contact: actionlj@gmail.com
Linda gave up her investment-banking career in 1993 to become a professional cyclist (at age 35!). She went on to become one of the top three stage racers in the world. She won the Tour de l’Aude, the 1998 Hewlett Packard International Women’s Challenge, twice finished 2nd overall at the Giro d’Italia Donne, and once 3rd overall at the Tour de France Feminine. She captured six Canadian national championship titles, won the Bronze medal at the 1996 World Road Race Championships, and was a 1996 Olympian. Linda returned to the financial world following her retirement in 2000, joining Credit Suisse First Boston as a Director in the Technology Group. From 2003-2005, Linda consulted for a California based winery. Linda found cycling again in 2004 when she became involved with a local women’s cycling club started by the Palo Alto Bicycle shop. Aware of the lack of funding for women’s sports, Linda began to seek additional funding for the team. In 2006, TIBCO became the title sponsor of the team, and the team started competing in races across the country. The team was ranked #24 in the country that year. The rest is history. The team steadily climbed the charts and was ranked number one in the country in 2009.
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Jeff Corbett
Directeur Sportif/Consultant
Contact: jeffc@teamtibco.com
After a number of years directing the highly successful 7Up and Health Net-Maxxis programs, Jeff took a break from directing and began working with Medalist Sports on races like the Tour of California and Tour of Missouri. He returned to directing in 2009 with Team TIBCO and will continue with those duties in 2010.
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Jef Sobul
Communications Director
Contact: jeff@cobaltcreative.com
Jeff’s work cuts across a fairly wide swath. Including sponsor relations, marketing outreach, managing content for the team website, producing press releases and developing race reports to send out to sponsors, fans and media. Jeff also worked as the Communications Director at UnitedHealthcare presented by Maxxis Men’s Team since 2004.
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Emma Rickards
Rider / Director
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Patty Phillips
Assistant to the President
Contact: pattyph650@comcast.net
Patty became involved with the team in 2006 as the communications director and has now shifted her focus to working with Linda.
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Ryan Bontrager
Mechanic
