Racers

Stuart heads a global team that focuses on private infrastructure investment for GIC, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Stuart looks at a wide range of different infrastructure investments from airports to utilities, and is excited by the thought of doing a detailed study of 3,089 miles of smooth American roads as he and the Cycling For Cameron team race across America.

Stuart lives in Berkshire, UK, where the roads are definitely not smooth. Stuart discovered cycling 5 years ago after many years of running badly and related minor injuries. Starting from indoor spinning classes, Stuart has now discovered a passion for carbon, lycra and power meters. His biggest cycling challenge to date has been the 21,000m of vertical climbing in last year's week long Haute Route Alps race from Nice to Geneva over many of the Tour de France classic climbs.

Kevin has spent the last 30 years working in the financial markets of New York, Tokyo and London for investment banks and Hedge Funds, active in capital markets and investing.  He is currently employed in the UK as an asset manager.  Kevin is lucky enough to be married to Corinne and have experienced raising Cameron, Megan, Nicholas and Sienna.

Kevin has been cycling since his teenage years, enjoying long rides with friends in the Japanese, English and French country sides.  Cycling highlights include a Paris-London one-day race and cycling up Mt Fuji. He had to miss out on a planned cross USA cycle ride 30 years ago but has finally getting to a chance to go cross country and couldn’t be more excited.

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Marc is the Founder Chairman of the Board of OTW Safety, a company started in 1989 to provide plastic revenue generating special events barricades for the America’s Opening World Cup Ski Race in Park City, UT. Today, Marc is the CEO of Dented Brick Distillery, a pretty big jump from barricades, but having a dented cranium, seems to work. Marc lives in Landrum,SC with his amazing and athletic wife Amy, raising goats, chickens, horses, dogs, cats, and any other strays that stop by the farm.

Marc has a passion for cycling, and is redeveloping a passion for road biking in the western Carolina foothills after spending the last 10 years as a recreational and downhill mountain biker. No stranger to road racing, Marc has competed in many Salt Lake City based criteriums and road races as a Category 4 rider, (30 years ago) and is reminiscing these painful moments as he trains for RAAM. Cycling career highlights include following the Tour de France with Marty Jemison Cycling Tours, climbing Alpe d'Huez, riding in the Pyrenees covering the French Spanish border in the basque country, and riding the mad max downhills of Whistler-Blackcomb with Kevin Tisue

Mark lives in NYC with his indulgent wife Bridget (another Torontonian) and their two teenage daughters. They will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary in an RV somewhere during RAAM. He enjoys/suffers through various endurance sports and has completed the London and New York Marathons, the Etape du Tour twice (including Alpe du Huez) and countless Century bike rides. Most of these efforts have been for charity and other good causes, but none as important as this one.

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Andy is the co-founder and co-CEO of Unison Energy, a company that engineers, installs, owns and operates highly efficient onsite electricity co-generation facilities for hospitals, hotels, grocery stores, and other large facilities. He has more than 30 years of experience in venture capital management and investing, and has founded and run five companies and served on the boards of many other public and private companies. He lives in Larchmont, NY with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Andy has been riding since he got his first 10-speed, a Gitane, when he was 10 years old, living in Guadeloupe, and his sports idols were Eddy Merckx and the local riders. He loves endurance adventures, starting first when he was thirteen and walked the Appalachian Trail for two summers with a high school buddy. He’s skied the Haute Route from Switzerland to Italy with Kevin Bespolka and friends. Andy is thrilled to be riding the RAAM in memory of Cameron Bespolka and with this passionate group of riders and crew on the Cycling for Cameron Team.  Onward and upward for Cameron!

Fred is an Assistant General Counsel at Time Warner Inc. responsible for all real estate and related matters including major real estate development projects in New York and London such as the Hudson Yards project on the West Side of Manhattan. He has worked at the company since 2002. He lives in Scarsdale, New York with his wife and two daughters.

Fred raced road bikes from 1994-2003 when he started to focus on long distance triathlons, competing in 10 Ironman triathlon races, including the World Championship race in Hawaii. He has also competed in 24-hour mountain bike races, the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and ultra trail runs from rim-rim-rim of the Grand Canyon to a Northface 50K trail race. RAAM has been of interest for Fred since some of his friends competed in the race in the early 1990’s. He has been a cycling fan ever since he saw Greg Lemond in the 1978 Junior World Championship race in Washington, D.C. Being able to participate on a RAAM team will bring years of interest and training to the test and will be satisfying especially because it will be for such a good cause.

Chris is the owner of Endurance Cycle Service, a bike repair shop located in Park City, Utah.  After working in the bike industry for many years he decided to start a shop focused on service and repair with a friendly environment for all customers!  In the winter Chris guides ski tours which offer a unique experience of skiing up to 6 ski areas in one day.  He lives with his girlfriend Morgan and their fur child Sam, a Minpin/Jack Russel mix.  Sam is his #1 training partner on the mountain bike.

Chris has been using the bike as an excuse to travel different parts of the world for the past 20 years.  Cycling has taken him to New Zealand, Guam, Costa Rica, all over Europe and beyond!  Mountain biking is his first passion but after having spent 2 summers riding road bikes in Europe it is now a toss up.  A few highlights have been watching and riding routes of the Tour de France in the French Pyrenees as well as racing 4 days across Costa Rica on a mountain bike!

For the last 23 years Nicky (and his wife Stephanie) have been living 2/3 of the year in Austria and Jan-May in Florida. He teaches shotgun sports to beginners through Olympic level on both continents. His wife Stephanie and 3 grown sons seem to understand his mid-life crisis. Nicky has kept reasonably fit over the decades ... he was very fit as a teenager/young man while competing in Skeet-shooting on the international circuit for 11 years on the Austrian team. When in his twenties Nicky owned a race bike and rode it for a couple of years as recreational sport on and off. This is the first real long distance/continuous/multi day bike riding for him.

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