ABOUT US

Tim McFerran

At 6’8”, Tim McFerran is hard to miss.  A former college basketball player, Tim turned his passion for competition into a career as a successful consumer products executive. Although his success in the business world was rewarding, Tim’s passion was in helping others, so he started running basketball camps in his spare time for some of the biggest names in basketball, like Charles Barkley and Chris Weber. When asked to transition from basketball to run a new skateboarding camp, Tim jumped at the opportunity. While the skateboarding camp never materialized, what did result was the Maloof Money Cup skate contest.

Fast forward five years and Tim now heads up World Skateboarding Grand Prix, which has quickly grown to become the the leading global skate events management company.

Tim’s true passion is helping youth and especially the underprivileged youth in communities worldwide.  He has changed the way international contests are organized and managed, providing the legacy of a skate park left behind for the community, but also creating year-round activities for underprivileged kids that are supported by the contest.

Diondra Colqhoun

Diondra is the chief operations officer for World Skateboarding Grand Prix. She handles all finance, marketing and advertising for WSGP events.

Ryan Clements

Clements started skateboarding in 1985 in Tampa, Florida at age 12. In 1998, when the opportunity to work at Skatepark of Tampa came along, Ryan sold his lawn maintenance business and never looked back. During his tenure at SPoT as GM, he helped grow the brand to worldwide recognition and co-founded SPoT Productions in 2006. Ryan has also announced hundreds of events from live television to backyard mini-ramp jams. In 2010 Ryan founded EXCEL Management with Heath Brinkley. Clients include Paul Rodriguez and most recently, Mark Gonzales. In January of 2013 it was time to move on from the SPoT properties, but continue on with Excel Management and other opportunities in skateboarding, with The Boardr being his latest venture with Rob Meronek, who also left SPoT.

Brendi Rawlin

Brendi has 15 years of experience developing and managing strategic communications and media relations campaigns; from managing multimillion-dollar accounts and counseling Fortune 500 corporations, to launching start-ups for clients in a wide range of industries, including special events, action sports, technology and consumer products.

Brendi has represented dozens of major action sports events in snow, skate and surf and has worked with the top brands in the action sports world as well as many of the top professional and Olympic athletes and their management in skateboarding, snowboarding, surf, motocross, BMX and cycling.

Candice Blackstone

Candice has nearly two decades of event experience. She has worked on a number of large- scale snowboarding and worldwide skateboarding events, as well as working on award shows and specials for ABC, NBC, MTV, VH-1, Nickelodeon, Lifetime and the NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show. She brings with her experience in event production, logistics, promotion and credential management to the World Skateboarding Grand Prix team.

Mark Waters

Mark has had an extensive career in the skateboarding industry, working in retail and brand sales, team management, brand management, and event production with brands including Foundation, Toy Machine, Zero, éS, Emerica and Etnies. He spent eight years with Transworld Skateboarding as staff writer, photographer and Managing Editor of Skate Business at its inception, and has also managed Thrasher’s SkateRock tours and shows. Mark is involved in the marketing and promotion of all of the World Skateboarding Grand Prix brands, including managing the visual communications, and handles select event development.

Ryan Clements

Clements started skateboarding in 1985 in Tampa, Florida at age 12. In 1998, when the opportunity to work at Skatepark of Tampa came along, Ryan sold his lawn maintenance business and never looked back. During his tenure at SPoT as GM, he helped grow the brand to worldwide recognition and co-founded SPoT Productions in 2006.

Rob Meronek

Rob Meronek is a software engineer, Certified Public Accountant, and photographer who has been skateboarding for 25+ years, spending the last 20 years of that time documenting and running events with SPoTlight Productions and Skatepark of Tampa, including every year of the legendary Tampa Am and Tampa Pro contests. In 2013, Rob moved on from Skatepark of Tampa. Rob’s first of many software projects is The Boardr Live, a full featured event administration and instant scoring app available now to make your event simple and easy to run.

Mike Koroczynsky

Mike “Chinner” Koroczynsky, a skateboarder of 14 years originally from  Youngstown, Ohio, has spent the last 2 years in Kimberley, South Africa  acting as the manager of the Kumba Skate Plaza in which he runs a full  time development program for the local skaters. Chinner also worked for  ‘eS Footwear for a few years traveling the US for the Game of Skate Tour,  judging, documenting, and blogging the events. Chinner spends his time in  Kimberley and abroad in South Africa documenting the skateboarding scene  and assisting with hosting and documenting the Skateboarding for Hope  Tour. Chinner also runs the KDC website and social media platforms.

Peter Shakkour

Peter Shakkour’s work with World Skateboarding Grand Prix as broadcast and webcast producer continues to build upon a 25 year career in network and independent sports production and management. Peter has worked on 8 Olympic Games for CBS and NBC Sports and was a Senior Producer for IMG/TWI. Peter also played an integral role in the formation of College Sports Television, now the CBS Sports Network, and brings a diverse and comprehensive range of production and operations experience to WGSP and its broadcasting partners. Peter’s work has been recognized with 9 Sports Emmy Awards.