ISRAEL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Academy Team Representative
It's difficult to say something about Chris that fits in just a few sentences because he is such a champion, on and off the bike. His palmarès speaks for itself and we are proud to have someone like Chris in the team. Since joining us last year, it has been amazing to see how Chris is as a leader and a teammate, particularly as a mentor for the young guys. When you see the hours of training, the altitude camps, everything he does is at the top level. He is a real champion, a very good guy, he trusts in himself, and after his crash he is still finding his place again. I really hope one day he will again be fighting for a victory.
Strong had ‘fun' in breakaway in Norway, gets caught last minute.
Job Titles:
- Head of Performance Support
This year marks Guillaume's ninth year with IPT and his 14th season as a professional. We can always count on G's robustness as an athlete to deliver strong performances for the team. As one of the veterans in the group, our leaders have the confidence in him to deliver them to the front of the race. G has the capacity to reach high individual goals when he is in top form, and has his eyes on reaching his peak form during the cobbled classics in the spring.
With a big palmarès, Jakob is one the riders in the peloton who has put his mark on the sport during his career. Monuments, stages races, championships: he has won it all. His experience and race intuition is very important for the team. He has been unlucky with his health for the past two seasons, but Jakob has a lot of willpower to come back to the level he was. He is a winner. We believe that he will succeed in doing this in 2024.
A passionate cyclist and entrepreneur, Jean Bélanger draws upon almost 35 years of experience in business, driving forward sustainable impacts in his communities. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal and is the President and CEO of Premier Tech.
Jean strongly believes in the importance and power of giving back. This is why he has been committed, both personally and through Premier Tech, to the areas of health, education, and sports.
Job Titles:
- Lead IPT in Volta a Catalunya
Job Titles:
- Communications Manager
- Press Officer
Job Titles:
- Digital Communications Manager
Job Titles:
- Head of Marketing and Communications
- Head of Marketing & Communications
Riley showed his potential when he raced for IPT as a stagiaire to end the 2023 season, topping this off with a brilliant win at Paris - Tours. We believe that he has the potential to become a strong Classics rider in the future. His ability to fight for position, tackle punchy climbs, end races with a good sprint and his history competing in cyclo-cross are all very important qualities that he possesses.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of Livermore Investments Group
Ron Baron founded the team, then known as Israel Cycling Academy in 2014, with a dream of seeing the first Israeli rider compete in the Tour de France.
Ron is an Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of Livermore Investments Group. He is one of the two founders of the Company in 2007 and led Livermore since then to become one of the largest and most successful investors in the US CLO market.
Ron previously served as a senior management member at Bank Leumi (Switzerland) and as a lawyer in the banking and M&A space. Ron received an LLB (Law) and BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University, graduating magna cum laude, in addition to receiving an MBA from INSEAD in 2001. Ron was previously a Major in the Israeli Navy and served as a commander of a squadron of boats.
Apart from his business and philanthropic ventures, Ron is a passionate cyclist and athlete and participates in CX and road races, triathlons, Ironman competitions and cross country skiing races.
Job Titles:
- Marketing - Communication
Israel - Premier Tech partner Sylvan Adams took up bike racing at age 41 as an age group Masters racer in Canada, where he lived until emigrating to Israel at the end of 2015.
Sylvan's cycling accomplishments include six Canadian Master's titles, four Pan American golds, four Maccabiah (Jewish "Olympics") gold medals, and two World Championships titles. More recently, Sylvan also won the Israeli Master's national championship, in his new country.
Adams was born and raised in Canada. He served for close to 30 years as President and CEO of Iberville Developments, one of Canada's largest real-estate development companies. At the end of 2015, he emmigrated to Israel (made "Aliyah") and settled in Tel Aviv.
Since moving to Israel, Adams' calls himself: "Self-Appointed Ambassador, at Large, for Israel". In this role, his philanthropic mission is to promote his adopted country, both abroad and within, in creative, innovative ways, befitting the energy and spirit of Israel, the Start-up Nation. Several of his projects relate to sporting