Sam Robinson

General Manager

Sam’s professional background spans the private, public and charity sectors, most recently working in Corporate Social Responsibility, where he created award-winning staff engagement and international development projects. Having read Communication & Media Studies at Sheffield, he’s especially interested in how riding a bike can improve our mental health and wellbeing. A regular player for the world-famous Easton Cowboys football team for over 15 years, Sam also loves exploring local bike routes with his family and is a massive advocate of the balance bike as the best way to start life on two wheels!

Tim Norton

Director

Tim is a passionate web and social entrepreneur who builds global communities of action. Tim saw the potential that Challenge for Change had to get millions more people cycling on our beautiful planet. He is a founding Director and angel investor of Love to Ride. Tim is at home in nature, loves being physical and traveling the world learning and living.

Phillip Darnton

Chairman

Phillip has spent most of his career working for multi-national businesses, Unilever and Reckitt and Colman, in marketing and general management roles. Phillip’s involvement with the cycling world began in 2000 when he was the Chairman and Chief Executive of Raleigh UK. He was invited by the Department of Transport to join the newly created National Cycling Strategy Board, becoming its Chairman in 2004. He led the creation of Cycling England which aimed to get “more people cycling, more safely, more often” and chaired the body from 2005 to 2011.

Arleigh Jenkins

VP of Marketing and Growth

With a career in sales and marketing, Arleigh has been working in the bike industry and advocacy for 15 years. A strong proponent for women and family cycling, she has founded BikeShopGirl.com and currently sits on the Board of Directors for BikeDenver and has sat on several boards promoting healthy living through cycling. Arleigh is an avid bike commuter, mountain biker and cyclocross racer. You’ll easily spot her around Denver riding her bright orange Bullitt cargo bike with her daughter sitting in the front. She believes that cycling can solve many of the world’s problems and is passionate in keeping cycling fun and inviting to all.

Kevin Simmons

CTO

Kevin has more than 17 years experience in tech and web development. He has been leading teams and the architecture of a number of web apps for the last 11 years. We love the way Kevin approaches and solves problems. The depth of his knowledge and his technical capability mean that we can all rest very well at night knowing that Kevin is on the job. While Kevin started programming professionally in 1997, he started coding for fun when he was 8 years old on a TRS-80 (which had a 5mb hard drive!)

Jesse Doud

Rails Developer

Jesse has seven years of professional experience building clean, beautiful web software. An Atlanta native, Jesse is a bike mechanic and advocate, teaching people to build and maintain their bicycles at community bicycle co-ops. On a bicycle tour of New Zealand, Jesse decided to stay and now resides in stunning Wellington. Jesse is interested in bicycles as a vehicle to promote sustainable cities, public physical and mental well-being, reduction of carbon emissions and to add some fun to daily life. He also enjoys puns.

James Cowlishaw

Senior Developer

New to the team, James has spent the last 17 years developing software; including network security, enterprise software, games development and web applications. Sad to have given up a cycle commute (he now works from home), it looks like a daily leisure ride will take it’s place. James also races dinghies at weekends, where pedal power is frowned upon.

Johann Weber

Partnerships Manager

Johann comes from the dual worlds of advocacy and academia, having spent the last 5 years working on a doctoral degree in environmental and transportation policy at Georgia Tech (with a thesis exploring the factors influencing the local implementation of bicycle infrastructure). He has also accumulated extensive experience working as a planner, educator, and advocate in the nonprofit and public sectors at both the local and regional level. Johann believes in the importance of supplementing good engineering with even better encouragement efforts, and is a passionate cyclist and pedestrian. He also enjoys Ultimate Frisbee, hiking, mountain biking, and is generally obsessed with transportation.

Claire Connachan

Program Development Manager

Claire is the Program Development Manager in Scotland. She has worked in digital marketing and communications for nine years and has worked extensively within the Scottish third sector. As a founder member of Belles on Bikes and a committee member of Cycling UK Scotland, she’s particularly interested in getting more women cycling, sustainable transport and 8 – 80 cycling infrastructure. If she’s not exploring Scotland on two wheels with laden panniers, you’ll spot her around Edinburgh on one of her three bikes.

Fleur Ammerlaan

Project Coordinator

Fleur is our Project Coordinator based in Bristol. A recent Geography and Environmental Management graduate from UWE Bristol, Fleur has a big interest in how behaviour change theories can be applied to help encourage individuals to make healthier and more sustainable travel choices. New to cycling, Fleur has overcome her own cycling barriers in the past 3 months and is now a daily bike commuter.