Management team 2011
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INTERNATIONAL STAFF
ROLF ALDAG
Team Manager
Rolf Aldag brings 14 years of successful racing experience including 16 Grand Tours and the German National Road Championship to his role as Team Manager of Team HTC - Highroad. His hard-working commitment as a cyclist transferred into his job overseeing the sport function of the team. Rolf is open to new ideas and is constantly looking to improve the world's most successful cycling team.
ALLAN PEIPER
Sports and Technical Director
Allan began racing at the age of 12 and moved to Belgium at the age of 17 to pursue a long and successful career which included racing the Tour de France five times and winning a stage at the Giro d'Italia. He is an organized and talented sport director, rider recruiter and coordinator of the team's complex rider and staff schedule throughout the season.
JENS ZEMKE
Sports Director
Jens is sport director who has longtime success and experience in men's and women's cycling plus a backround in professional men's cycling as a pro rider so both our men and women will benefit from his knowledge and enthusiasm.
BRIAN HOLM
Sports Director
Brian has a cool and direct way of calling the shots from the HTC - Highroad team car. He raced professionally from 86 to 1998 and completed the Tour de France seven times. During his professional career working primarily as a domestique, Brian enjoyed 11 individual wins including Danish National Champion in 1990. Brian has been a sporting director since 2003 and brings vast tactical knowledge to the team.
RONNY LAUKE
Sports Director
As director of the HTC - Highroad women’s team, Ronny is responsible for the eleven women's year-round training and racing programs. He brings his background competing as a track racer to his role in successfully directing the most winning women's team in the world.
VALERIO PIVA
Sports Director
Valerio is a passionate and committed leader, emotional and animated in the team car. Known as an outstanding team player, Valerio raced professionally from 1982-1991 for some of the strongest teams in racing, and rode the Tour de France in 1990.
JAN SCHAFFRATH
Sports Director
Jan is a former racer who brings his professional racing experience from 1997 to 2005 to his role as sports director for HTC - Highroad. He rode his whole career with Erik Zabel, the infamous six-time winner of the green jersey at the Tour de France, and was one of his most loyal helpers. Jan has been the workhorse of the team and readily brings his knowledge of teamwork and sacrifice to the riders.
ANDRZEJ BEK
Service Course Manager
Andrzej has been in cycling his entire life, dating back to his days as a track cyclist, and taking the bronze medals at the 1972 Summer Olympic games and at the 1974 World Championship for his homeland of Poland. His extensive experience ranges from rider to director of Track Cycling at USA Cycling and sporting director for the Saturn Men's Team and T-Mobile Women's Team. He now acts as Service Course Manager for Team HTC - Highroad.GREET VERHULST
Logistics Manager
Greet joined HTC - Highroad in 2007 and brings ten years of logistics management experience to the team. She has mastered the job of managing the extensive logistical operation of the team, including all travel arrangements, vehicle transports, training camp planning and communication with race organizers. With more than 80 people in the Team HTC - Highroad organization and the extensive race camp and travel schedule, Greet is dedicated to ensure that all staff, riders, vehicles and equipment are at the right place and on time.
BOB STAPLETON
Owner
Bob is an American entrepreneur and a pioneer of the wireless industry. Since entering the cellular industry at Pacific Telesis in 1984, he has served in various positions with General Cellular, Corp, including Chief Operating Officer and VP of Operations. Bob was one of five founders and served as President of Western Wireless Corp. which later became Voicestream Wireless Corp. As Chief Operating Officer, Bob was responsible for all operations of Voicestream Wireless Corp. In 2002, Bob moved to San Luis Obispo where he founded High Road Sports, Inc. in 2004. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science and MBA from the University of California.
BRUCE CARMEDELLE
Chief Financial Officer
Bruce joined High Road Sports in 2006 and has brought his extensive experience in management and operations to his role as C.F.O.. He works with the staff, partners and suppliers to ensure the smooth operation of the team, enabling the riders and sport directors to focus on racing. Bruce has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of New Orleans and became a C.P.A. while working for Price Waterhouse in Denver, Colorado. Since then, He has served as a C.F.O. for both public and private technology companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Bruce splits his time between the Team’s Service Course in Belgium and California.HELGE RIEPENHOF, M.D.
Head Team Doctor
Helge Riepenhof, M.D. Head Team Doctor – Germany – After studying in Osnabruck, and Munich, including a special project with Harvard Medical School Dr. Helge Riepenhof joined HTC - Highroad in 2007. As Head Team Doctor, Dr. Riepenhof coordinates a team of leading orthopedic surgeons from BG Sportpartner, a hospital in Hamburg Germany which specializes in trauma surgery, orthopedics sports and rehabilitative medicine, and one of the leading hospitals for sportstraumatology. Dr. Riepenhof and his team specialize in sport-related injuries and recovery methods to bring the latest techniques to our athletes.
SEBASTIAN WEBER
Team Trainer
HTC - Highroad team trainer Sebastian Weber makes it his business to study every last detail of our riders' performance. Our riders train an average of 4 hours each day, amounting to 24,000 pedal strokes per day,and more than 8 million strokes each year. Weber provides HTC - Highroad athletes with specific, individualized training plans, monitoring SRM and VO2 max testing data, integrating that data into future plans for each rider.They study the demands and nuances of a course, and by helping with pacing strategies they can prepare our athletes to perform at their best.LARS TEUTENBERG
TechDev Manager
Lars has been instrumental in the development of some the most advanced equipment in competition today, including the 2008 Giant and the 2009 Scott Plasma. A former professional road racer and track rider himself, Lars is nicknamed “The Professor” for his obsession with technical detail and perpetual improvement. Lars works in tandem with our partners and athletes, utilizing advanced wind tunnel and other testing methods to develop the most aerodynamic and technologically advanced equipment and practices in professional cycling today.KRISTY SCRYMGEOUR
