The team
You’ll always know exactly who you’re dealing with.
The person who quotes your trip is the person who runs it.
The team
Say hello to the people who will be looking after you, from the first call to the flight home.
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Founder & Operations Director
Ben
Ben is the Founder and Director of Operations at Elite Sports Travel. With an unashamed passion for travelling the world and watching sport in fine style, Ben is responsible for designing luxury sports holidays that hit his own sky-high quality expectations. Ben is never happier than when he’s turning left!
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Senior Sports Travel Consultant
John
John knows more about sport than anyone else, literally anyone. The company Statto has seen it and done it all before and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything Elite Sports Travel offers. John ties the whole band together and makes sure everything that should happen actually does. Regularly tosses a bit of left arm filth down the wicket on a Saturday for Watton-at-Stone CC and is quite happy to see DNB next to his name on the batting card!
Sports Travel Consultant
Nicola
Our shrinking violet Nicola is always the meek and mild one in the office. Quietly spoken. Wouldn’t say boo to a goose etc. Who are we kidding?! Nicola is our office pitbull. She's our gatekeeper, our chief problem solver and all round travel organiser extraordinaire. If you have a problem that needs sorting, Nicola is always there and ready to take up the fight for you. And of course working in travel, she's never far away from a holiday of her own. The irony of the phrase “has more holidays than Judith Chalmers” has never been more apt!
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Marketing Manager
Aaron
Aaron looks after our social media output, email marketing, podcasts, digital assets and keeps the website up to date. Aaron was without an NFL team before embarking on our 2021 Road Trip, so the clients all decided he needed a team. NFL Network’s Brian Baldinger pulled the New York Jets out of the hat for Aaron to support, cue much laughter in the room! Fair play to him though, he's stuck to it and has even been able to work with the team direct when they become an official partner of ours. Aaron is also a massive Arsenal fan, which used to be rich pickings for the rest of the team to mock him each Monday, but we've sadly had our fun taken away by them being quite good.
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Tour Manager
Sven
Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Sven is always keen to step up and help deliver our customer experience programme on location at our various events around the world. He’s been helping out the team from the very early days and therefore has extensive first-hand experience in knowing exactly what our clients need, often before they even do. In his ‘other’ job, Sven works for Formula 1 and used to work specifically for the Red Bull team. He is therefore never more comfortable than when discussing the merits of Max’s 2021 World Championship win with Lewis fans!
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Videographer
Virgyl
Virgyl shoots, directs and edits all of our beautiful video footage from the various events we organise. He takes a good photo too, so most of the stunning shots you see on our website came from his camera. He has a sharp eye for detail and is extremely quick to capture the spirit and essence of the luxury events that we present. Also has a penchant for wearing non-prescription glasses, for fashion reasons apparently.
Sports Travel Consultant
Ally
Ally helps out in our sales department with most new business sales enquiries coming in to her for triage before being handed off to one of our specialists to deep dive into. She'll often be your first port of call when you speak to us and she's particularly notable for being relentlessly upbeat and happy, something the rest of us struggle to keep up with!
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Tour Manager
Steve
Steve has been there and seen everything! With an extensive career in travel, he's been to every event and pretty much every country. He's forgotten more things about sports travel than we'll ever know! Steve is a regular fixture on our cricket tours and knows all the tricks to get you exactly where you want to be at midnight on New Year Eve in a town full of cricket supporters. You'll not be surprised to hear he's got a story or two to tell over a glass of wine at the conclusion of the days play too.
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Tour Manager
Lee
You'll come across Lee on a variety of our trips, most usually on the bigger Super Bowl trips, when extra pairs of hands are very much needed for all the running around we do. With having lived in America and South Africa for extended periods, he's also very familiar with most of our key destinations. He always has a restaurant recommendation or two up his sleeve too!
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Tour Manager
Jake
For years Jake used to take the mickey out of our tour managers for being in "Holiday Club", until he was asked to help us out on a trip a few years ago. He's hosted a few tours with us now and still refers to the job as Holiday Club, although one he's quite gladly in rather than mocking from the outside! Jake is normally found helping out on our NFL trips, and although it's not one of his most familiar sports, if you ask him which team he supports even he has the good sense to say "The Cowboys" very quietly so no-one else can hear.