THE TEAM
Game4Padel brings together the necessary financial, technical, and sports development skills combined with a passion for padel to offer a new way of funding and developing padel in selected venues across the UK.
Vincent Hivert
Operations Director
Vincent is a tennis and padel specialist and qualified coach in both sports. He has established one of the largest club-based junior tennis competition programmes in the UK and has extensive experience working with clubs to grow and develop their sport programme, increasing membership and club revenues.
Vincent will have responsibility for driving court usage and building our membership income.
Peter Gordon
Commercial Director
Peter is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and owner of a padel club and founder of the Scottish Padel Federation. With extensive sports facility experience gained through roles in sportscotland and Tennis Scotland and now managing director of the respected Advantage Sports Consultancy.
Peter will have responsibility for selecting the best venues for Game4padel and negotiating the joint venture agreements with those venues.
Jim McMahon
Executive Chair
Jim has a background in finance, retail property and investment. Jim was a founding partner of West Coast Capital, former partner and board member in PWC and chair of Motherwell Football Club. Jim has looked after the PGA, the Ryder Cup Limited and Saracens Rugby in his time at PWC.
Michael Gradon
Michael was a Director of FTSE 100 company P&O where he was Group Commercial & Legal Director, Chairman of the property division and of Europe’s premier sports resort La Manga Club, Spain. He is an NED of aviation and hotel companies and a Board Member of the Wimbledon Championships, one of the world’s premier sporting events.