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Vorb is New Zealand’s most popular cycling website and has won a number of awards including winning the Best Sports + Recreation Site and placing as a finalist for Best High-speed Internet Site at the 2007 People’s Choice Netguide Awards and winning the "Sports - Cycling" category at the Hitwise Online Performance Awards.
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Tama started Vorb in 2000 as a bit of a private laugh amongst some cycling mates. Vorb escaped into the public consciousness in early 2001 and never looked back. At the end of 2004 Tama decided to quit his day job as a Library Systems Administrator to focus on Vorb fulltime.
He has been heavily involved with mountain biking in New Zealand since 1993, worked in a bike shop for 5 years, helped organise over 40 events, built a lot of singletrack, and wrecked a lot of bike parts. He was also the co-producer for the internationally popular Drop In New Zealand TV series and currently edits Spoke Magazine which is New Zealand’s longest running mountain bike magazine. In Vorb he combines his passion for mountain biking with his uncanny ability to write complex code at 6am in the morning.
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As an Olympic athlete and New Zealand champion mountain biker, Robyn Wong knows all about setting goals and striving for excellence. She has represented NZ at 6 World Championships, 7 Oceania Championships and at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Through her leadership in sports she has been an outstanding role model for other women. Robyn is the founder of Capitelles, a Wellington cycling group for women. She is a mentor and coach for other athletes as well as she provides inspirational and motivational celebrity speaking engagements for non-profit organisations, corporates, sporting bodies, fundraising groups and others.
Besides being a professional athlete, Robyn is also a Chartered Accountant. She has worked in finance roles since 1992. Her specialist area of expertise is in business strategy, business improvement, investment management, financial & business analysis. Her clients have included government agencies and private sector companies. Robyn is also a Board member and Treasurer of the YWCA and the Manager of the Wellington Women’s Hockey team for 2007.
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Chris Auld is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Intergen, a major New Zealand software services company. Chris brings a wealth of commercial and technical experience to the Vorb advisory board. Chris has worked with high-level national and multinational clients such as Microsoft, Amazon and Telecom New Zealand and is regarded as a world expert on the Microsoft software platform. Chris holds degrees in Law and Information Science from the University of Otago.
Known for his evangelical, ’arm-waving style’ and his enthusiasm and drive, Chris brings an abundance of excitement and energy to every project he undertakes. Chris is easy to spot on the trail- just look for the full custom painted *loud* yellow Ibis Mojo.
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Scotty Lane has been creating mountain bike websites for the best part of a decade, to date his most popular creation was 'Faceplant' - a mountain bike e-zine which managed to pull in around a thousand visitors a month. After becoming hooked on Vorb after a brief visit, he decided his energy was better spent helping improve Vorb rather than work on his own.
He has extensive experience in the cycle industry having been a mechanic, salesperson, workshop manager and e-commerce administrator for a major New Zealand sports and outdoor retail chain. Scott holds degrees in History and Film and Media Studies from the University of Otago, on top of this he also holds a secondary teaching diploma from the Dunedin College of Education, which he says he will use again once he's recovered from his last three-year stint in the classroom.
Loves making pretty pictures in Photoshop. When this is combined with Tama's ability to write complex code it can produce some fantastic and sometimes downright apocalyptic results.
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