John Barber. Sailing Software and Sailing Safety.

Partner in a specialist business providing software for sailing clubs and events, including DutyMan rostering, and Medusa membership management. Highly experienced safety officer at world championship and global level, including Extreme Sailing Series 2009-2014, and International Moth WC 2014. Background in engineering and technical senior management and leadership.

David Henshall

David ‘Dougal’ Henshall, was born in Southampton in the early 1950s, growing up as part of a family that spent the summers just messing around in boats on the Hamble River. From there, he moved up to dinghy racing, starting off in Moths, before advancing on to crew in a Fireball. What followed was 50 years spent racing in just about every sort of boat and location imaginable. He was lucky to sail with some of the great racers of the day, crewing for many top helms, such as Dave Pitman, Larry Marks, Howard Sellars and Jim Saltonstall, with these all being high spots in a long career spent in a trapeze harness. After taking early retirement, David was able to combine his love of sailing with the development of a new career focused on charting the history of the racing dinghy and journalism. With two books written,(on the Contender and Merlin Rocket) and the third which focuses on the 505 now in progress. He is a regular speaker at Clubs and events around the country and internationally.

Andy Hooper

Andy Hooper has been involved in the Watersports industry for nearly 30 years with a wide range of experience across the sector. Having Sailed, Windsurfed and Kayaked throughout this time, he has worked or volunteered in clubs, charities, overseas resorts, commercial centres and the RYA before now running his own business.

Before settling on a career in the Marine sector, Andy had successful roles both as a retail manager for the UKs best loved department store and as a sales and business development manager where his love of working with people, customer service and sealing a deal comes from!

With a passion for sport, Andy is now focused on business development, consultancy and training for all organisations in the industry to help them develop, grow and be sustainable for the future.

Riki Hooker

Riki is International Sales Director of RS Sailing. He focuses on expanding emerging markets in the rest of the world. Having helped build the international dealer network at RS Sailing and more recently, spearheading RS Sailing's entry into North America, Riki builds on the company’s presence on that continent whilst also concentrating on developing RS success in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

Simon Lovesey

Simon is a lifelong sailor and IT professional, who set-up SailRacer 5 years ago after developing online entry and results systems for events he was involved in organising himself. A growing demand from other events, class associations, clubs and sailing federations soon saw SailRacer become a full time business, with staff and offices. Simon's vision is to enhance and augment the sport of sailing through the use of technology from other sectors, such as GPS tracking and video presentation, in an affordable manner.

 

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