About us
Wimbledon Debenture Holders is the trading name of a private company – Debentures ltd
It is owned and managed by Philippa Winton, Jackie Elton and Michael Armstrong.
Philippa Winton
Philippa's love of tennis started quite late; playing bad tennis at school. In fact the courts were more generally used for sunbathing than tennis. She really learnt to play in her twenties when bought tennis lessons in Battersea Park as a birthday present, and over twenty years later she now plays mixed doubles with her family.
Philippa worked as a training adviser before becoming a sales manager running the UK sales team for an international financial products company in the City.
Jackie Elton
Jackie is a Debenture Holder who has been a Wimbledon fan since the 1970s, when still at school. Her earliest memory watching tennis was seeing a very young Ilie Nastase defeat Mark Cox of Great Britain in the 1969 Davis Cup, the first but sadly not the last time she has seen British players lose in SW19. Her best Wimbledon moment was on Centre Court watching wild card Goran Ivanisevic defeat Patrick Rafter in 2001. She has also been to watch the US, French and Australian Opens – though none in her view quite compare. Jackie is also a keen tennis player, in the strictly social sense. She looks forward to seeing Andy Murray win his first Grand Slam.
When not watching or playing tennis, Jackie lives in London. After working on infrastructure projects for several years, she has run her own successful internet business, Widernet, since 1999. This includes a number of successful dating and event sites. For a number of years, she has sold her own Debenture tickets via www.wimbledonseats.co.uk - which was successful enough for her to contemplate doing it on a larger scale.
Jackie holds degrees from Cambridge University and London Business School. She has known Philippa Winton since 1983 and Mike Armstrong since 1990.
Michael Armstrong
Michael is a general sports fan and has particular interest in football, tennis and cricket. He used to be an enthusiastic tennis player if not very proficient competing in his university college's second team. Played football throughout his twenties, but gave up contact sports when he trained for and completed the London marathon many years ago. Michael tends to watch sport rather than compete nowadays and has spent many a happy day with Wimbledon centre court debenture tickets and appreciates the value of the facilities provided.
Professionally, Michael runs his own company which is involved in the development of small renewable energy plants, waste composting operations and some energy fuel trading. He worked for 13 years previously as the general manager for Europe for an international energy company responsible for the development, acquisition and operations of electricity power generation facilities.
Michael attended Pembroke College, Cambridge at undergraduate level and subsequently gained an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Web development team
Sam Oliver (our lead developer) has worked on many large and succesful web projects as a developer and consultant. He has a background in broadcasting technology and specialises in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and CakePHP. His blog is samoliver.com.
Simon Jamie (our designer) is a freelance web developer based near Nottingham, UK. Integrating front-end and back-end design elements, he uses both graphic design and programming skills to create fully realised web applications. His skills include PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, graphic design (both web-based and print design), audio production, video and publishing. His site is at fingermouse.net.
