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Rob founded Sport Systems in 1990 with the launch of the original DOS version of RaceMaster II. He now has responsibility for the commercial, sales & marketing and financial aspects of the business.

In his early career he worked as a systems professional in the oil and brewing industries before joining an american software developement company specialising in supply chain planning software. He sold this product throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

He was a keen club athlete with Cheltenham Harriers and latterly Tadworth AC until knee injuries forced his retirement. He achieved PB’s of 28:56 for 5 Miles; 36:36 for 10k; 59:54 for 10 Miles; 1:18:21 for the half marathon and 3:17 for the marathon. He’s proud to have run in the first London Marathon in 1981 where he beat Dave Bedford!

After graduating in electronic engineering from Essex University Nigel worked in the music industry for companies supporting bands including The Who, Thin Lizzy, Dire Straights and Bruce Springsteen. He moved on to work for a company designing and installing the technical equipment in theatres in the UK and Europe.

In 1992 he became self employed and continued to design audio, control and medical electronic systems along with diversifying into software development. Self employment gave Nigel the opportunity to train more seriously and he managed PB's of 38:26 for 10K, 1:26:?? for the half marathon, unfortunately never broke 65 minutes for 10 miles but is proud to have the best marathon time of the three Sport Systems directors at 3:09:10 (that's sub 3 hours age graded). Age, beer, back and achilles tendon problems along with developing Sport Systems curtailed the training but he has not quite given up yet...

Like Rob, Mark has worked in the oil industry and like Nigel he’s come across many old rock bands; while studying geology; a discipline for which he found he had no aptitude. After half a working career in data and database management, mainly in the publishing industry, when life turned forty (plus) he set out looking for new challenges and was invited to join Sport Systems.

A misspent 20s got in the way of his best running years but he achieved 37.18 for 10K, 61:30 for 10M 1:22:48 for the half marathon and 3:13 for the Marathon. Mark’s a keen supported of age graded results and even keener supporter of body mass index adjusted results where he believes he has broken few world records! When he’s not involved in helping Sport Systems’ customers organising their races Mark, not surprisingly, likes to organise races, being involved with the Wedding Day 7K and River Relay..

Unlike Rob and Mark, Daniel has only ever given money to the oil industry. He has however been in a rock band, even if only for a short time. While studying IT he was bitten by the “geeky bug” and worked for computer companies, mainly building and fixing PCs along with fun, fun, fun data entry! He finally settled down and joined us in early 2007 as our web developer after we, by serendipity, met him working part time in a pub!

Much as we have tried, Daniel is still evading running. He claims he is too young but has a PB of 21.32 for getting to work but only one of 33.24 getting home again.

Daniel brings down the average age of the work force by about ten years and makes significant contributions to debates on the techniques and hazards of attaching thousands of chips to numbers.

Don doesn’t like athletics – he loves it - and its not surprising why! In the mid nineteen-seventies he regularly ran sub 2 minutes for the 800 metres, sub 10 minutes for the steeple chase but his best pb is 52.13 over 10 miles. More recently he can be seen holding the finishing tape at the Manchester Commonwealth Games Triathlon.

A club man throughout Don was President of Belgrave Harriers in 2004, the year the club won the National Cross Country Champs, but he’s still on the cleaning rota for the showers at Belgrave Hall.

Outside of athletics he gained electronic experience in the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers where he also did Modern Pentathlon - poor horse!. In civvy. street he numbers Racal and IBM amongst his past employers. Don has also worked for VSO in Eldoret in Kenya where he swapped his Belgrave vest with Henry Rono.

Don is the Sport Systems’ photo finish technician but is also first in the queue to procuring the bacon sarnis, especially on cold mornings.