Development cycling
Leadership
Toby stanton
Sports Director
Recruitment, athlete selection, coaching, race direction, and sponsor development.
Toby founded the Hot Tubes cycling team in 1992 and has grown the program to be the most successful junior cycling team in the nation.
His unwavering passion and innate ability to shape champions on and off the bike have forged some of the finest young riders the U.S. has produced. The team has over 125 national championships to prove it. #HTLF, or "Hot Tubes for Life," is a phrase coined by alums who have stated that their experience on Hot Tubes shaped them into the people they have become, a sentiment that is the Hot Tubes legacy.
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When Toby is not traveling with the team, he is busy operating Hot Tubes, a custom bicycle paint and carbon repair facility he started in 1991 in Massachusetts. Hot Tubes is nationally recognized as one of the country's premier custom frame painters and carbon repair shops for high-end bikes..
Franky Van Haesebrouke
Sports Director
Franky was a professional cyclist from 1995 to 2001. Following the 9/11 attacks in New York, where he lived as a rider on the Navigators team, he chose to end his racing career and return to Belgium. Starting in 2002, he transitioned to the role of Sports Director at the Australian iTeamNova team, and later held similar positions across five different continents. Franky has worked alongside Hot Tubes for years, and officially joined in 2025.
Brian
Walton
Coach
Brian is a Canadian cycling coach with a professional racing career spanning over 18 years for North American pro teams 7-Eleven, Motorola, and Saturn. He represented Canada at the Pan American Games and was a three-time Olympian and silver medalist at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
Walton was inducted into the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame and the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He was later honored as the USA Cycling developmental coach of the year 2006-2010 and is now the Co-founder and CEO of Walton Endurance and coach for the Hot Tubes junior cyclist team.
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Mike Berlinger
Master Mechanic
Mike began his career as a mechanic in 1996. As a freshman racing for the University of Vermont, it was economically necessary to be able to work on his and other teammates' equipment. That laid the groundwork for his career as a mechanic. He's wielded a wrench in many countries, either as a team mechanic or in a neutral support capacity. Highlights include the Tour de France, Paris Roubaix, Tour of California, Tour of Georgia, Cyclocross World, and the Montreal Women's World Cup.
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Though his primary role is building, tailoring, and maintaining the team's equipment, Mike generally answers the call of "help" and may be found fixing any number of things - including breakfast for the team! Mike works as a mechanic with CycleMania in Portland, Maine. He is also honored to serve as a mechanic for the Bahamas Hope Challenge (formerly Ride for Hope Bahamas), a fundraising event building hope and resources for Bahamians fighting cancer.
Board of Directors
ALSTON GARDNER
Chairman
Alston is an active investor in early-stage technology companies through DGI Capital and is a co-founder and board member at Fulcrum Equity Partners, an Atlanta-based growth equity fund. Alston also serves as an advisor to Hatteras Venture Partners in Durham, NC. Alston and his wife, Barb Lee have four adult daughters and split time between New York and Chapel Hill, NC.
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IAN BOSWELL
Ian Boswell is the Global Athlete Manager for Wahoo Fitness, and races in domestic gravel events. He was formerly a professional road racing cyclist, and has raced in all three grand tours. A professional since 2010, Boswell has formerly competed with Bissell (2010), Bontrager–Livestrong (2011–2012), Team Sky (2013–2017) and Katusha-Alpecin (2018-2019). Ian lives in Vermont with his wife and two daughters, and enjoys skiing in his off-season.
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DENNIS CRUMPLER
Dennis has several decades of experience building and managing successful Atlanta based technology companies, including Sales Technologies, XcelleNet, TechDiscovery, and Reveille Software. Since 2000, Dennis has been involved in environmentally responsible real estate development in North Carolina and Virginia, including The Coves at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. Dennis is a graduate of MIT (BS'75) and Harvard University (MBA'82), and served as a US ARMY officer from 1975-79. He is married and has two grown children living in Colorado and Illinois.
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DANIEL ESTEVEZ
Daniel Estevez is the owner of Families Together an Adult Day Health Center for disabled adults and seniors located in Leicester, MA. Daniel was a professional cyclist and a member of Hot Tubes from 2003-2007. Following his first cycling career, he entered college and graduated from Clark University with a Business Management degree. While in college and after graduation he worked in the human services field, first as a Case Manager and Youth Mentor and later as a Service Coordinator for the Department of Children and Families services. Daniel re-started his cycling career in 2019 and won the 2021 Elite Road and Criterium National Championships.
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WILL FRISCHKORN
Will was a member of 1996-97 Hot Tubes teams and then went on to a successful 10-year career in professional cycling with the Mercury, Saturn, Colavita, and Garmin-Slipstream professional programs. He competed in the 2008 Tour de France placing 2nd on stage 3. Will retired from professional cycling in his late 20’s to pursue his other passions: food and wine. In 2011 Will and his wife Coral opened Cured, a specialty cheese, meat and wine market in Boulder, Colorado. They sold the business in 2021 and moved to Crested Butte where he is now the Executive Director of the Crested Butte Devo youth Mountain Bike Team. He is responsible for the Hot Tubes alumni relations and helps with cycling industry connections.
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STEPHEN HOLOWESKO
Stephen is a partner at a Nassau, Bahamas-based hedge fund. His career stops include teaching English in Japan, Television Tokyo’s Washington, DC bureau, and Goldman Sachs, in New York and London. He is also the founder of the Pirate Republic Brewery in Nassau. He and his sister co-founded the Bahamas Hope Challenge, a cancer-related charity. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Stephen and his wife, Alessandra, four kids and two dogs live in Nassau, The Bahamas. His eldest son, Liam, joined the Hot Tubes Development Team in 2013 and had the longest tenure of any Hot Tubes rider. Liam was the US 13-14’s National Time Trial champion in 2014, and the US 15-16’s Time Trial Champ in 2016.
JEFF MUIR
Jeff is the founder and Managing Partner of Fulcrum Equity Partners in Atlanta. Prior to Fulcrum, Mr. Muir was COO of On Target and began his career as an attorney with the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird. He was a member of the world-renowned 1971 Indiana University swim team before transferring to the University of Georgia. He holds a B.A. and law degree from the University of Georgia, both with honors. Prior to law school, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force and was also a member of the U.S. Modern Pentathlon National Team. He and his wife Doris live in Atlanta and host Hot Tubes annual spring training camp at their home near Lake Burton, GA.
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RYAN TIÉ
Ryan was a member of the 1993 Hot Tubes team. He later went on to win the 1996 Collegiate National Road Race Championship in San Luis Obisbo, CA and ride for the U.S. National Cycling Team in while earning his B.A. from the University of Colorado. Ryan is the founder of Clocks Lane Advisors, an advisory firm serving specialist asset managers and family offices. Prior to Clocks Lane, Mr. Tié was Chief Investment Officer of Lepercq de Neuflize Asset Management, a New York-based investment firm serving a concentrated group of high-net-worth families and related charities. He is currently a member of the investment committee for Northfield Mount Hermon School.