Our Team

We Are Passionate About Tennis

Anthony Gasson

A business leader in the international tech sector with 30 years of experience, Anthony is a Sales, Marketing, Operations, and SaaS specialist. He has driven high growth start-ups and corporations alike such as WEBEX, PictureTel, Interwise, and AT&T. He participated in 6 successful company exits. He is known for creating global SaaS growth engines integrating digital marketing, sales, and customer success.  He is an accomplished media and public speaker.

Dr. David John Ambaye-Parkyns

David is the technology lead at Orion. He has extensive experience in high technology firms working as a  practitioner innovator and strategist. He has a Ph.D. in computer science, a Master’s degree in industrial design, and a degree in mechanical engineering. His technical background spans all aspects of NPD from Ux, biometrics, industrial design, mechatronics, and software development. He also brings innovation project management experience at start-up, SME, and corporate levels gained over the past 30 years. He has previously originated patents in data communications and wearable technologies.

Frederic Fontang

As the Biometrics lead at Orion, Fred Fontang has brought domain expertise in all aspects related to tennis but also in the exercise and sport fields whether be it performance, injury prevention or rehabilitation. When he is not leading biometrics at Orion, Fred coaches Felix Auger Aliassime (ATP top 20) in collaboration with Tony Nadal. As a professional player between 1989 and 1998, he reached world No. 59. He has extensive experience of tennis coaching and biometrics principles gained from coached well-known players including Jeremy Chardy, CarolineGarcia, Benjamin Sigouin, and as a Davis Cup coach for Team Canada.

Neil Bird

Neil brings solid channel and partnership experience that is focussed on strategies for revenue maximisation.  He has worked in all aspects of the product and business cycles including a focus on routes to market within the high technology B2B and B2C sectors. In a career spanning over four decades he has had roles spanning – product concept, development, launch, and ramp-up, and direct and indirect partnerships. He has delivered products, programs and revenue across all global markets for well known brands including Zebra Technologies,  Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu and PictureTel.