DAN FLEEMAN  

Dan’s passion for cycling started at the age of 10 whereby mountain biking was his thing.  It wasn’t until he
was 18 he made the switch over to the road.  He always use to train on the road and found the longer
and hillier nature of road racing suited him coupled with greater opportunities to travel worldwide with road racing. 

Dan’s first major result was winning the British National Road Race Championships in 2004.  This brought with
it a double achievement as an accident whilst out training less than 12 months prior left him with two broken knee caps and the doctors indicating he would never walk again.  Needless to say this was all the motivation Dan needed to get back on the bike.

The following 2 years Dan moved to France and rode as an amateur whereby he took wins in the Prix de la St Amour and the Tour de Beaujolais.  This then provided him with the opportunity to ride for
DFL-Cyclingnews in Belgium.  During the season of 2007 Dan achieved top 10 places in the Tour of Britain and the mountainous Tour of Qinghai Lake.

The 2008 racing season Dan spent with An Post/M.Donnelly/Sean Kelly Racing Team whereby his most notable win during this time was coming first overall in the Tour of the Pyrenees.  Also during this time Dan obtained good results by overall coming 13^th in the Tour of Ireland and 7^th in the Tour of Britain.

The opportunity then was offered to join the Cervelo Test Team with Dan’s opening race the historical
Paris-Nice, one of the hardest opening races of the season.  During his time on the team he obtained a superb
16^th in the GP di Lugano and 6^th in the Tour of Romandy Team Time Trial.  Unfortunately the second part of his
season was affected by a wrist break in May.  

In 2010 Dan signed his 2 year contract with the recently resurrected British Team Raleigh.  During his
time at Raleigh Dan has shown impressive form which has included winning the National Hill Climb Championships, 7^th in the National Championships, 7^th in the Tour of the Pyrenees and 7^th in the Rutland Melton Classic
(UCI 1.2).  This season Dan obtained a great result in Canada in the Tour de Beauce, with 2 hours notice
that he would be riding the stage race in Canada, therefore training leading up to the race was not specific to a stage race, he came 8^th overall. 

Just under a year ago, along with another, Dan opened a bike shop within his local area.  His entrepreneurial
mind was working even back then.  Forme Coaching is the next step for Dan helping people to achieve
their goals through quality coaching using statistics and figures to make improvements in power training. 
Dan wants to share his experience and mistakes to help others train effectively.  To date he has been involved in coaching young riders, some of which are now in France racing. 

STEPHEN GALLAGHER 

Stephen studied a BTEC in Sports Science before securing the opportunity to live and race in France when
he was 18 years old.  Not knowing the language Stephen use to go out training with a French/English
dictionary on the handlebars so he could learn the language to live, train and race in France.  Since then
he can speak fluent French, Italian and Flemish.  Clearly his potential was evident at such a young
age which wasn’t surprising given his performance in the Worlds and Irish Championships since starting to
race at 7 years old competitively.  

Stephen dedicated the next 10 years of his life to racing which included time as a pro rider from 2003
with Team Endura Sport, he then went on in subsequent years to ride for Flanders-Afin.com, Flanders,
Giant Asia, Murphy & Gunn, An Post/Sean Kelly Racing Team right up to recent day of Sigma Sport Specialized
and Cycle Premier Metalek.  Stephen has raced in Europe, Australia and South America securing wins and
top three results during this time.  His most notable win in his cycling career to date was the 7 day stage race
FBD Ras in 2008 whilst riding for the An Post/Sean Kelly Racing Team. 

Whilst some may look at cycling and see the glamour portrayed by teams in the Tour de France, the sport in
itself is the hardest in the world.  Time away from family and loved ones for months on end, moving daily from
one hotel to another, travelling constantly at times, watching your nutrition and diet every day, race and
training preparation and dedication and commitment to training and racing...all this for one sport. 
Stephen both from his results and years riding as a pro rider can demonstrate dedication to the sport,
his discipline to achieve the results to date and sheer passion for giving the sport he loves 110%.   

Stephen has built up a global network of connections over his years of racing both on and off the bike. 
He has a natural ability and entrepreneurial flair when connecting people and ideas together.  To this day
he still would be good friends with many of the pro riders therefore receiving all the latest information
as to what is happen at the pro rider level of the sport.   

With Forme Coaching Stephen wants to use all the connections, knowledge and craft he has built up over
the years at the pro rider level.  Stephen has been coaching for the last 2 years which has seen significant
results in his local area whereby over a 2 year period schoolboys he was coaching received over 30 medals
in Irish Championships.  Stephen currently utilises the Training Peaks software for the 16 clients he
works with.  Still in love with the sport he sees this as a new chapter in his life within cycling that has
been his life and will be his future. 

MANDY COLLIE 

Mandy Collie who has over 13 years experience running businesses, alongside the Directors, will be
providing business management support whereby strategic direction of the business, recruitment, long term
goals, financials and sales and marketing will be managed.  Graduating with a business studies degree and a
further postgraduate in HRM Mandy has gained extensive experience of both managing and
establishing businesses.  For an academic year she also taught women part time the fundamentals in starting
their own business. 

Mandy’s core experience lies within HR and recruitment having worked in Edinburgh and Glasgow initially before returning to Northern Ireland to open her own recruitment consultancy in Belfast,
Cornerstone.  Approximately 2 years ago a business opportunity arose to work with Barnabas Ventures, a property company, who as part of their portfolio they built a business centre known as the Midtown. 
Mandy then took on the additional responsibility of managing and ultimately increasing profitability of the Midtown Business Centre alongside the continued responsibilities for Cornerstone.

These roles take on board a range of business skills which include producing yearly budgets, financial projections, management of staff, sales & marketing, social media, HR and recruitment and day to day
operations.  Mandy is fully committed to providing Forme Coaching with support and direction both at start
up and as the business grows.  In addition Mandy is also a keen cyclist who tries her hand at racing with this year finishing 4^th in Irish Women’s National League and therefore has a level of understanding of the importance of training and how much there is a need for a professional cycling coaching business.