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Bridge Club Live Staff Team

Peter Oakley, President & Co Founder peter@bridgeclublive.com Peter (NZ)

Peter is  a New Zealand National Level bridge player with over 50 years experience and is author of "The Diamond Major" now in its 3rd publication.

Peter is on line at various times depending what country he is in at the time!

Nick Justice, Managing Director & Co Founder nick@bridgeclublive.com NickJ (UK)

Nick is an experienced Electronics Engineer, originally from the Aerospace industry where he was Chief Engineer at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in England in the 70's. He is a trained pilot and amatuer jazz musician amongst other interests, usually related to food! He comes from a bridge playing family though rarely has time to play! He has 3 children who are now out in the big wide world.

Tony Philpott , Club Manager, tony@bridgeclublive.com Tony.

Tony Philpott started playing bridge in 1956 and played in various clubs in the south of England before moving to the Yorkshire Dales in 1984 and founding the Wensleydale Bridge Club. He joined EBU-Online in 1999 and became Competitions Manager of BCL, in charge of the programme of Special Competitons and Leagues, in 2005. He is now responsible to the Managing Director for the day-to-day running of BridgeClubLive.

Fran Bramzel,  On Line Manager, fran@bridgeclublive.com Essex Girl

Fran learned to play bridge at the Acol Club in London (UK) and played Duplicate and Rubber bridge in almost all the clubs in and around the area. After a degree in Education, she made a career in Pr & Advertising. She has been a successful professional charity fundraiser and also run her own retail business for many years.

Fran has a great love of words and language - creating humour whenever possible. At the bridge table, she can often be found howling with laughter and trying to offer the best 'one-liners' - the bridge almost forgotten.

Phil Allen,  Software Manager phil@bridgeclublive.com PhilAllen
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Phil is a key member who took over the software design soon after the company was operational. He is a bridge player, mathematician and database programmer - and also does all our WEB based Bridge results design.

Phil is responsible for all client and server developments and you will find him on line very late at night.   He also plays a mean guitar.....

Joke Allen, Member Support, joke@bridgeclublive.com Joke *NL*

Joke is our Member support manager who lives in Holland. She is a true bridge addict - and admits it and loves communicating with all our members on and off the screen!

Drew Cannell,  Tournament, Conduct and Ethics Director, drew@bridgeclublive.com canooz
Inventor and author of "Panama Relay" bridge system and "CRASHDAK" defense to Strong Club systems. Panellist for British Bridge Magazines - International Popular Bridge Monthly and Bridge Magazine since 1988. Played, coached and captained for Canada and Panama in eleven World Championships winning tournaments on five continents and numerous National Championships. Provides International playing lessons online and face-to-face. Directs and run bridge clubs. Vugraph commentator.
Ed Scerri, Senior Ethics Consultant, Ed@bridgeclublive.com Whoopsie

Ed is a top rated player in the club, and has won several National events in the UK. Any serious ethics issue is passed to him as our internal consultant for review.

Barrie Partridge, Honorary Chief Tournament Director, ChiefTD@bridgeclublive.com Senior Kibitzer

In April 2010, Barrie kindly accepted to take over where our previous CTD, John Probst, had a serious illness and could no longer continue in this role. Barrie has been a long standing member and consultant in various roles over the many years since the club's beginning and is the regular TD at the Annual BCL UK Congress. He provides support and guidance on enquiries regarding Law or Regulation.