Bob Stapleton
Bob Stapleton ( real name Robert R. Stapleton ) ( born April 1, 1958 in Riverside, California) is an American entrepreneur and team manager of cycling team.
VoiceStream
Bob Stapleton was co-founder and chairman of mobile phone company VoiceStream Wireless, which was acquired by T -Mobile International in 2001. His fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at one billion dollars.
High Road Sports
After the sale of VoiceStream founded Bob Stapleton, the U.S. company " High Road Sports Inc. ," which as of 2003 operated a women's cycling team under the name of the sponsor T-Mobile, which is now known as HTC Highroad Women.
With the start of the 2007 season, he took over its operating company New roads Sport GmbH with headquarters in Bonn, a subsidiary of High Road Sports Inc., the management of the men's teams T -Mobile. Previously, the main sponsor had announced T -Mobile that you wanted to separate from the Olaf Ludwig Cycling GmbH, the previous operator of the T-Mobile team. Stapleton should restructure ( Fuentes doping scandal, Doping scandal Team Telekom ) and run back to the success of the team after the doping scandals.
On 27 November 2007, the Management Board of Deutsche Telekom announced to end the cycling commitment of the mobile subsidiary T -Mobile with immediate effect. The trigger for this was that of the T- Mobile rider Patrick Sinkewitz doping case before the Tour de France 2007. Decision related to both the men's and the women's team. According to the press release, the agreement between T -Mobile and the operating company " New roads Sport GmbH " was disbanded under the management of Bob Stapleton in " mutual agreement ". Originally the contract was to run until the end of 2010.
Then took over High Road Sports also the operation of the men's teams initially under its own name and received December 4, 2007 a preliminary ProTeam license. The current name of the men's team HTC -Highroad.
August 4, 2011 Bob Stapleton announced that Team HTC -Highroad is dissolved at the end of the 2011 season. The reason he stated that no new potential sponsor was found who is willing to support the team on the previous level. The previous main sponsor HTC finished his engagement at the end of the year.
Others
Bob Stapleton is married and has three children.