TrainingPeaks, a maker of a training app for athletes and coaches, announced it hired of Lee Gerakos as president.
Gerakos, with a 20-year career in engineering for companies including Oracle, Tapjoy, Epsilon, and DoubleClick, will oversee its engineering teams and help to drive the business strategy for TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic, the two sports performance software companies under the Peaksware Holdings, LLC portfolio.
“Sports and athletics provide an incredible opportunity to experience and focus on continuous improvement, teamwork, handling adversity, and executing strategy to accomplish big goals,” Gerakos said. “I am excited to work with such a great team here at Peaksware focused on our purpose and mission of bringing together the world’s coaches and athletes to help them get better at what they love to do.”
“I’m very excited for our people and for our customers that Lee has chosen to bring his talents to TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic,” said Andy Stephens, CE, Peaksware. “We practice what we preach. Skill development comes from deliberate practice. In sport, the hallmark of deliberate practice is the trusted relationship between an expert coach and a committed athlete. In business, it’s the selfless leader who coaches talented, committed people to achieve their full potential. Lee is that leader.”
