sportsDrive, The Athlete Insight Company. Home of the Sports Performance Indicator.

OUR TEAM

Management Team

Thomas Knox, President
Tom is an accomplished senior executive having held the positions of CEO, COO, CFO and senior advisor to boards of directors for the past 30 years.

Tom has extensive experience in strategy development, operations, finance, business development, start-up companies, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, reversing financially distressed companies and managing multi-site organizations. He has developed over 150 business plans; worked with over 160 different organizations; participated in the planning and implementation of over 50 mergers; participated in the implementation to turn-around 15 financially distressed organizations; and participated in 16 start-up companies.

Known for providing leadership to shareholders, boards of directors, senior management, middle management, employees, and customers, Tom has the vision, experience, integrity, character and drive to lead organizations through the next evolution of changes. Tom is valued for his strategic insights, practical solutions and ability to communicate complex issues in understandable terms.

Barry D. Brown, VP Operations
Barry is an accomplished senior operations executive having held such titles as COO, VP North American Operations and VP Sales for the past 20 years. He has with extensive technology services experience (SAS) and a career with is distinguished history of consistent achievement in driving positive change in progressive cross-functional, cross-industry views.

Barry has an outstanding background in strategy formulation and implementation and a demonstrated track record of achieving balanced growth, improving operational efficiencies and business restructuring. His organizational leadership strength lies in his ability to articulate a vision, set priorities, develop and mentor employees and deliver results.

Scientific Research & Development Team

Prof. Dr. Heinz Schuler
Prof. Dr. Heinz Schuler, born in Vienna, holds the chair of psychology at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, since 1982. Dr. Schuler earned his Ph. D. as well as the Habilitation at the University of Augsburg, followed by a professorship at the University of Erlangen – Nuremberg in 1979. Prof. Schuler is member of both, the German Psychological aAsociation (BDP) and the American Psychological Association (APA).

Prof. Schuler's research interests are in the field of personnel psychology, especially personnel selection and assessment. He authored or edited some 500 publications, among them the two volumes "Organizational Psychology" within the Encyclopaedia of Psychology (in German) and the Achievement Motivation Inventory AMI (translated to appx. 20 languages such as Hebrew, Polish, Russian, French, Korean, Chinese and others). Besides that, Heinz Schuler is editor or co-editor of several journals and book series. In 2002 he became founding editor of the Zeitschrift fuer Personalpsychologie (Journal of Personal Psychology). For two decades, he chaired the ethics committees of both German psychological associations and is still serving as a consultant and reviewer for a large number of scientific journals and science foundations.

Among Schuler's theoretical innovations is the concept of social validity which initiated growing interest in an individual perspective of personnel selection and assessment processes. Another important invention is the Onion-Ring-Model of Achievement motivation which formed the basis both the Achievement Motivation Inventory as well as for the sports related test "Sportbezogener Leistungsmotivationstest SMT". A methodological breakthrough was the Multimodal Interview MMI® that combines advantages of structured and unstructured interviewing to a selection instrument of high validity and acceptance. Prof. Schuler invented the multimodal model of diagnostics and besides the MMI® transferred its application to all processes of personnel selection as well as to Performance Management / Performance Appraisal and Sports Psychology.

Besides his academic career, Dr. Schuler acts as a consultant for public and private institutions such as BMW, Credit Suisse, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Daimler, Volkswagen or Swiss Life. Since 1998 he has been scientific director of S&F Personalpsychologie Management Consultants in Stuttgart, Germany and member in the advisory board with HR Diagnostics (since 2004).

Andreas Frintrup
Andreas Frintrup holds a German Diploma of Business Administration and Economics and a professional degree as Industrial Clerk. His academic emphasis was Industrial Economics, HR Management and Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Currently he is heading towards his Ph. D. on the measurement of Achievement Motivation in Sports. He gives lectures at the Hohenheim University on I/O Psychology.

Together with Prof. Schuler Andreas authored the "Sportbezogener Leistungsmotivationstest SMT", a psychological test geared towards the prediction of an Athlete's success by psychological Assessment of Achievement Motivation. This test is used by the Swiss Military to select Athletes for participation at the Olympics. He co-authored the internationally used "Achievement Motivation Inventory" (AMI) with Prof. Dr. Heinz Schuler and Prof. Dr. George C. III. Thornton (Colorado State University).

Andreas is CEO with HR Diagnostics and consults with international corporations such as Volkswagen, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, SwissLife, Continental, Daimler, BMW, Audi and various Police Authorities and Governmental Organizations. His work mainly focuses on psychological assessment, E-Recruitment and Online Assessment, Integrity-Assessment and sports psychology.

Andreas spent substantial time in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Florida and lives in Germany. He is married and father of three.

Annika Olofsson
Annika Olofsson holds a German Diploma in Psychology and acquired additional qualification as a Sports Psychologist. She currently is preparing for her Ph. D. in psychology and focuses on psychological assessments in sports.

Together with Prof. Schuler and Andreas Frintrup she contributed to the "Sportbezogener Leistungsmotivationstest SMT" and applied it both for research and guidance purposes to large numbers of athletes. She's actively working as a sports psychologist with athletes from different disciplines, (ex. triathlon, riflery, and gymnastics) and counsels the German Olympic association. Personally, Annika's favorite sports are sailing, snowboarding, yoga, swimming, and hiking.

Stefan Piechowski
Stefan Piechowski holds a Masters degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. Steve has 20 years of experience in software architecture and design and focused his work on web-based platforms.

Steve is CTO with HR Diagnostics and is head of the software development. He is in charge of all technical and security issues.

Steve lives near Munich in Germany and has two boys.