EF Education–Tibco–SVB

EF Education–Tibco–SVB is a former women's professional cycling team based in the United States that competed in elite road bicycle racing. The team's main sponsors were EF Education First, TIBCO Software and Silicon Valley Bank. The owner was Linda Jackson, a former professional cyclist.

EF Education–Tibco–SVB

Riders at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes
Team information
UCI code	TIB
Registered	United States
Founded	2006 (2006)
Disbanded	2023 (2023)
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI Women's Team (2010–2019) UCI Women's Continental Team (2020–2021) UCI Women's WorldTeam (2022–2023)
Key personnel
Team manager	Linda Jackson
Team name history
2006 2007–2009 2010–2014 2015 2016–2021 2022–2023	PABW Powered by TIBCO Team TIBCO Team TIBCO–To The Top Team TIBCO–SVB Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank EF Education–Tibco–SVB

Team history

Before its demise in 2023, Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB was the longest running women's professional cycling team in North America and traced its roots back to the Palo Alto Bicycles Women's (PABW) team. The team was created by Stanford MBA and investment banker, Linda Jackson. Jackson left investment banking in the early 90s to pursue her dream of becoming an Olympian. After becoming Canada's National Champion in 1995, Jackson was selected to represent Canada in the time trial and road race at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She went on to win the bronze medal at the 1996 World Championship Road Race in Lugano, Switzerland and accumulated numerous Canadian national championship titles in the road race and time trial. Cycling gave Jackson so much personally, that when she retired from the sport, she knew she wanted to help other women pursue their cycling aspirations.

Jackson became involved with PABW on a coaching basis in 2004, directed the team in 2005 and then added TIBCO as a sponsor in 2005 in order to help the team grow from a local racing team to a national-level team. Racing as PABW powered by TIBCO in 2006, the team finished the year ranked 36th overall in North America, up from 60th overall the year before. The following year, Jackson added Silicon Valley Bank as a sponsor. Jackson also created the Silicon Valley Cycling Foundation; a 501c3 formed to help develop promising female cyclists into top international competitors. The team soon rose to the top of the North American peloton and then began an expansion into International racing.

In 2008, the Team won both the National Road Race and Criterium (Brooke Miller) and was ranked 4th overall in North America. In 2009, the team became the top team in North America, won the National Road Race (Meredith Miller) and was named Team of the Year by VeloNews. In 2010, the team expanded to racing in Europe. In 2012, Team TIBCO won the National Road Race for the third time in five years with Megan Guarnier. In 2013 and 2014 the team repeated as the top team in North America. In 2015 Silicon Valley Bank became a co-title sponsor and the team added significantly more international events to its race calendar.

In 2017, the Team added four more National Championships to its tally with both Íngrid Drexel (Mexico) and Nicolle Bruderer (Guatemala) scoring double wins in the road race and time trial. 2018 started off with yet another national championship win; this time with new recruit Shannon Malseed winning the Australia National championship road race. In 2019, the team won the Australian national road race championship again, this time with new recruit Sarah Gigante. In 2020, Gigante won another national championship title, this time winning the Australian national time trial championships.

In 2022, the team joined the UCI Women's World Tour and became known as EF Education–Tibco–SVB.^[1] During that season, Emma Langley secured overall victory in the 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race after winning the stage 3 time trial, and the team successfully defending the jersey through the final day's criterium stage. ^[2]

In 2023, Alison Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes in a sprint finish after the break stayed away from the chasing pack^[3] – with the team describing the win as the biggest in their history.^[4]

At the end of 2023 both SVB and Tibco stopped their sponsorship.^[5] EF Education then announced a new women's team (EF Education–Cannondale).^[6][7] Veronica Ewers was announced as signing for the new EF Education–Cannondale team.^[8] In August 2023 it was officially confirmed that the team will disband at the end of 2023.^[9]

Final team roster

See also: List of rosters for PABW Powered by TIBCO and its successors

As of December 31, 2023.^[10]

Rider Date of birth  Lizzy Banks (GBR) (1990-11-07) November 7, 1990 (age 34)  Letizia Borghesi (ITA) (1998-10-16) October 16, 1998 (age 27)  Krista Doebel-Hickok (USA) (1989-04-28) April 28, 1989 (age 36)  Veronica Ewers (USA) (1994-09-01) September 1, 1994 (age 31)  Kathrin Hammes (GER) (1989-01-09) January 9, 1989 (age 36)  Clara Honsinger (USA) (1997-06-05) June 5, 1997 (age 28)

Rider Date of birth  Alison Jackson (CAN) (1988-12-14) December 14, 1988 (age 36)  Emma Langley (USA) (1995-11-23) November 23, 1995 (age 29)  Sara Poidevin (CAN) (1996-05-07) May 7, 1996 (age 29)  Omer Shapira (ISR) (1994-09-09) September 9, 1994 (age 31)  Lauren Stephens (USA) (1986-12-28) December 28, 1986 (age 38)  Georgia Williams (NZL) (1993-08-25) August 25, 1993 (age 32)

Major wins

2008

United States National Road Race Championships, Brooke Miller

2009

United States National Road Race Championships, Meredith Miller

2010

Sprints classification Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, Brooke Miller

Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic, Jo Kiesanowski

Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Ruth Corset

Gloucester Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Providence Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller

2011

Overall UCI Track World Cup (Beijing) Omnium, Tara Whitten

Individual Pursuit, Tara Whitten

Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Megan Guarnier

Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

2012

Prologue The Exergy Tour, Tara Whitten

2013

Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Claudia Häusler

Prologue, Claudia Häusler

Stage 6 Nature Valley Grand Prix, Claudia Häusler

Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic, Claudia Häusler

Chrono Gatineau, Shelley Olds

Madison Cup (Points race), Rushlee Buchanan

Challenge International sur piste (Points race), Jasmin Glaesser

Challenge International sur piste (Scratch), Rushlee Buchanan

Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Claudia Häusler

Saint Louis Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller

2014

Tour of America's Dairyland – Giro d'Grafton, Samantha Schneider

Overall Cascade Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens

Mountains classification, Andrea Dvorak

Prologue, Stages 1 & 2, Lauren Stephens

Stage 3, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

Stage 4, Jo Kiesanowski

2015

Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens

Mountains classification Women's Tour of New Zealand, Joanne Hogan

Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens

Stage 1 (ITT), Lauren Stephens

Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of the Gila, Lauren Stephens

Points classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Lauren Stephens

Stage 5, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens

Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

2016

Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens

Stage 4 Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens

2017

Stage 2 Tour of the Gila, Lex Albrecht

Chrono Gatineau, Lauren Stephens

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens

Stage 2 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lex Albrecht

Stage 4 (ITT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lauren Stephens

Combativity award Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lex Albrecht

2018

Stage 5 Redlands Bicycle Classic, Emma Grant

Stage 3 Valley of the Sun Stage Race, Kendall Ryan

Stage 1 Tour of California, Kendall Ryan

Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic, Kendall Ryan

Clarendon Cup, Kendall Ryan

2019

Stage 2 Joe Martin Stage Race, Shannon Malseed

Overall Tour of the Gila, Brodie Chapman

Stages 1 & 5, Brodie Chapman

White Spot / Delta Road Race, Alison Jackson

Stage 2 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Brodie Chapman

Stage 2 Women's Tour of Scotland, Alison Jackson

2020

Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens

Points classification, Lauren Stephens

Stage 4, Kristen Faulkner

2021

Stage 1 Ladies Tour of Norway, Kristen Faulkner

Stages 2 & 3 (ITT) Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley

2022

Mountains classification Tour of the Gila Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

Team classification

Stages 1 & 3 (ITT), Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

Stage 2 Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, Veronica Ewers

Overall 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley

Stage 3 (ITT), Emma Langley

Clasica Femenina Navarra, Veronica Ewers

2023

1st Paris–Roubaix Femmes, Alison Jackson

National and world champions

2008

USA Road Race, Brooke Miller

2009

USA Road Race, Meredith Miller

2010

Australia Road Race, Ruth Corset

2011

World Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten

Canada Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten

2012

USA Road Race, Megan Guarnier

USA Track (Pursuit), Lauren Hall

2015

USA Criterium, Kendall Ryan

2017

Mexican Road Race, Íngrid Drexel

Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel

Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer

Guatemala Road Race, Nicolle Bruderer

2018

Australia Road Race, Shannon Malseed

Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer

Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel

Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas

2019

Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas

2020

Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante

2021

Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante

USA Road Race, Lauren Stephens

USA Cyclo-cross, Clara Honsinger

2022

Israel Time Trial, Omer Shapira

Israel Road Race, Omer Shapira

USA Road Race, Emma Langley

2023

Canada Road Race, Alison Jackson