"The original office is still in Cowes, which is about half of the employees. Then we have a growing office in Lausanne, plus Paris, London and a new one in Singapore."
As the business is spread all over the place with offices in five countries now and people working all over the place, that comes with lots of challenges. We’re about 85 full time employees with about 250 sub contractor/freelance people that we use. Mass participation events (like cycling and running) depend a lot on volunteers and we often manage 800 to 1000 volunteers at an event. The original office is still in Cowes, which is about half of the employees. Then we have a growing office in Lausanne, plus Paris, London and a new one in Singapore. Then we have a few other people based in other countries around the world. That’s a big challenge to manage all that - to be spread all over the world, but also trying to maintain the small company feel and spirit and a start up mentality, rather than being a 'big' company. We have done this successfully so far, but one of the biggest challenges is keeping all of those advantages as we get bigger. One advantage of size and scale is that we are able to jump on a new idea or project and internally resource it in a way that we couldn’t have done when we were smaller. At any given time we have half a dozen new ideas and projects that are on the boil - without that you don’t have the next events coming on line. Previously, it all depended on me a lot, with all of the weight really on my shoulders. Now we have a seven strong board that comes with different experience in different sports, different counties and a really strong management team delivering our events. That strength and depth allows us to take on new projects and for me to step between different projects rather than actually just being focused in on one. That said, the Extreme Sailing
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