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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.
In 2010, Team TIBCO made its first foray into European racing, and will expand that schedule for the 2011 season, participating in some of the largest races in the world. Also last year, the organization grew into a family of three teams – the Team TIBCO UCI team, San Francisco-based Team TIBCO II amateur team, and Team TIBCO Juniors – totaling nearly 50 women. The expansion furthers the Team’s mission is to provide a long-term platform for its riders to reach their full potential in local, national and international competitions, while serving as role models for youth across America to pursue a life of health and fitness.
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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. In 2010, the team became UCI-registered and contested its first races in Europe.
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Lisa Hunt
Manager/Director Sportif
Lisa is one of the most experience team directors and managers in North America. For the past several years, Lisa operated and directed Team Vera Bradley, and before that, the ValueAct Capitol team. She and Linda have been friends for quite some time, dating back to when they raced against each other 15 years ago. This will be her first year working with Team TIBCO. Lisa adds excellent organizational skills and race direction to the Team.
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Chris Georgas
Manager/Directeur Sportif, Europe
Chris is one of the most experienced race directors in the world. He has worked with countless women’s teams, including numerous national teams, including those from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, and has had the opportunity to direct many of Team TIBCO’s riders in that capacity. He came on board with Team TIBCO in 2010 as European race director and will continue to help coordinate operations and direct the Team at some of the European races again in 2011. Chris also runs a cycling-oriented hotel in Limoux, France called Le Monastere.
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Angela van Smoorenburg
Directeur Sportif, Europe
Angela will take over primary directing duties for Team TIBCO in Europe, working alongside Chris Georgas. Angela rode professionally in the 1990s, contesting many of the top races throughout Europe. Upon retirement, she became a directeur sportif, guiding several Dutch women’s teams during the past decade as they raced the top one-day classics and stage races on the UCI calendar.
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Jeff Corbett
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 has continued working with the team in an advisory role since then.
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Patty Phillips
General Manager
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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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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Jessi Braverman
Social Media Manager
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Karl Frisch
Chief Mechanic
