Founders

Russ Downing is an ex Professional Rider for Team GB and Team Sky along with over teams across the world. His career span over 20 years becoming British champion numerous times. Russ was the first British individual winner for Team Sky in 2010 along with numerous other victories.

Tim Hammond is a successful technology entrepreneur and investor. A 'Who's Who' young entrepreneur of 2002 Tim founded his first Internet startup in 1996 and sold it to a public company for $18m. Tim was pivotal in the conception of the Internet incubator concept in 1998 and founded Ideashub and the UK government's UKBI incubator initiative. Tim founded Pro Espresso in 2018 to help grow the specialty coffee at home market.

Ryan Owens was born into a keen cycling family - his father and grandfather having both ridden competitively - Ryan started the sport at the age of 11 and was racing by the time he had reached 16. Ryan's team sprint Olympics silver medal at the Tokyo Games represents the realisation of a lifelong dream.