Behind the Geraint Thomas Cycling Trust (GTCT) there have been some influential and dedicated people who have helped set-up the Trust.
Find out more about our Trustees below:
Adrian Coles
An experienced Managing Director and Chairman who has most recently driven growth of a start-up in the EdTech sector, creating and implementing a strategy that has delivered significant year on year revenue growth, restructuring the workforce, and increasing capability with a new way of working, applying a growth mindset to increase motivation whilst delivering coaching to the team enabling them to succeed. Board responsibilities are consistently demonstrated and recognised when working alongside a diverse Board of shareholders including external institutional equity providers and High Net Worth’s.
Darren Tudor – Welsh Cycling Head Cycling Coach
Darren has been involved with two wheels since a very young age and ever since cycling has played a huge part in his life. Entering the sport through the club structure in Wales and then into competition, he’s understood first-hand the challenges faced by families due to his own family’s financial circumstances making it very hard for his parents to support his cycling ambitions. After many years of racing, Darren was then lucky enough to make it the profession and after 20 years he has seen the sport from a different angle and the various hurdles people must overcome to participate in cycling.
Caroline Spanton – Welsh Cycling Chief Executive Officer
Caroline’s background is in sport development and management with over 25 years in industry. She is a passionate and energetic sports management enthusiast and has experience working within leisure services in two large Local Authority areas, with Sport Wales as a regional development lead, as Chair of the Welsh Rowing Board and in senior executive positions in several high profile National Governing Bodies of Sport. She is a huge fan of the great Welsh outdoors and has a young son whose balance bike is already his favourite thing to do come rain or shine!
Christine Gibbons
Christine has worked in the NHS for 37 years as a clinician and a board executive. Ten years ago she took up trustee positions in charities supporting mass participation including leisure Trusts, Active Sussex, parkrun and Cycling UK. In 2022 she was awarded a Masters (with distinction) in Global Public Health. She spends her spare time training in the three disciplines of triathlon.
Owen Hathway
Owen is the Assistant Director for Insight, Policy, Public Affairs and Community Investments at Sport Wales. In this role he oversees the organisations research work, as well as having responsibility for distributing Welsh Government and Lottery funding to clubs and community groups in every corner of Wales. Outside the day job, he co-chairs the strategic management board of the Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health and Sport. Before joining Sport Wales, Owen had a passion for the role of sport in education and engaging young people, which stems from his time leading the policy, public relations and public affairs work in Wales for the UK’s largest teaching union.
Arwel Lewis
Arwel has over 20 years’ experience as a solicitor and has worked in both the UK and Asia on corporate and commercial transactions. He is passionate about sport with cycling and rugby at the top of a long list of sporting obsessions! He is delighted to be involved with the Trust and enjoys the interaction with all levels of the cycling community.
Rhodri Lewis
Rhodri is a senior Executive with over twenty years’ experience working in legal and commercial roles. He worked in London, Asia and Switzerland before returning to Wales and since 2005 has worked for governing bodies in both football and rugby union.
A mother tongue Welsh speaker, he is also a School Governor, is an Ambassador for Aspiring Solicitors (an organisation committed to increasing diversity and inclusion across all underrepresented groups in the legal profession) and is a member of the Urdd’s Sports and Apprenticeships Board. In his spare time, he coaches rugby union and football.
Wayne Brown
Wayne has spent 30 years working in marketing agencies – specialising in advertising, media and technology – Wayne has previously run leading digital agencies for Dentsu Aegis and WPP. He has worked on a wide range of global clients including Diageo, P&G, HSBC, Toyota, Apple and Google, but has specialised in cycling for the last 7 years – as the CEO of SHIFT Active Media – the data driven marketing experts dedicated cycling and the great outdoors. He is a keen road cyclist, indoors and outdoors, and is also a big fan of all forms of bike racing.
Robbie George
Robbie is the Welsh Cycling Director of Development & Events. He joined Welsh Cycling and the Board of Trustees for GTCT in 2023 after 9 years at British Cycling where he was part of teams delivering development, participation and education programmes. A sport lover, Robbie has worked in sport, leisure & tourism for 22 years, coaching abroad and up to academy level in football, though now most enjoys helping his two children develop a love of sport as well as getting Wales cycling. Robbie is part of several boards across Wales, including CIMSPA’s Welsh Professional Development Board, MB Wales and Outdoor Alliance Wales.