Our team

PIPA team after the Pros Roosen auction in Thorn

Nikolaas Gyselbrecht (CEO, Chief Executive Officer/Partner) (°1980)

Nikolaas founded Pigeon Paradise in 1999 at a time when very few websites existed "on line", dedicated to the promotion of the sport of racing pigeons. He can, within our sport, rightly be considered one of the early pioneers in the use of this medium. His belief in the overriding importance of the, then emerging, but underutilized internet, has proven to be of considerable importance. By 2003 Nikolaas graduated from the University of Ghent with a degree in Applied Economic Sciences and immediately decided to amalgamate his two passions the internet and his love of news and the racing pigeon sport. The results of this decision have clearly revolutionized the sport of racing pigeons worldwide. Pigeon Paradise an informational site soon morphed into PIPA the most powerful medium in the pigeon world today. PIPA has played and will continue to play an instrumental role in transforming a family hobby into an emerging new industry. PIPA can rightly be viewed as the focal point for the entire racing pigeon sport worldwide. In the 21st Century, regardless of where you are physically located on this planet, if you need to know what is going on in the pigeon world then all you really need is a browser and an internet connection pointing to www.PIPA.be.

Nikolaas now spends the bulk of his time charting the strategic policies that will ensure the continued growth of this unique enterprise by expanding both the reach of the PIPA network worldwide as well as PIPA’s relationships with its clients worldwide. As an professional organization , the PIPA team, is dedicated to quality , to service , to dependability, to reliability, to fairness and finally to transparency. PIPA and its entire team is available to serve the needs of both the elite sellers and worldwide buyers, dedicated to purchasing only the very best.

Dr. Carlo Gyselbrecht (CFO, Chief Financial Officer/Partner) (°1952)

Dr. Carlo Gyselbrecht, a resident of Knesselare, is a highly successful veterinary with particular emphasis on pigeons as his speciality. Carlo also happens to be the father of PIPA founder Nikolaas and his brother Thomas. Carlo has been extremely supportive of the PIPA organization from its inception, initially supporting behind the scenes both as an investor and as a financier. He is a vital link within the PIPA organization with a number of key responsibilities including administrative, accounting, financial planning and strategic planning. Add to these already substantial duties, his responsibilities as regards all of the medical protocols of the PIPA Elite Center, as well as the health of PIPA Elite Centers exceptional breeding stock, and you have the profile of the perfect overachiever. 

Carlo, as a student, was extremely successful in his studies, he was and still is characterized by his legendary punctuality, attention to detail and accuracy. PIPA and its development have occupied Carlo on a fulltime basis since at least 2005. It should come as no surprise that Carlo’s favorite hobby just happens to be the breeding of racing pigeons, an obsession that he has been involved in since childhood. From an early age he instinctively understood that the real key to success was the search for the “best of the best”. His pursuit paid off handsomely in 1995 when he, his father and his brother (who all raced together) attained the most prestigious prize possible within our sport. He won 1st International Barcelona, 2nd and 4th National Barcelona with pigeons of his own breeding. 

Carlo was responsible for the breeding lofts at the time. Others fortunate enough to acquire his long distance “Gyselbrecht” strain have also achieved impressive success. Visitors to Carlo’s breeding facility are always astonished by the quality of his strain. Carlo and good friend Martin Degrave are now working to convert the incredible breeding assets of the “Gyselbrecht” strain into performance results by focusing attention on a more active racing program over the next few years.

Thomas Gyselbrecht (CSO, Chief Sales Officer/Partner) (°1985)

Thomas, the younger brother of PIPA founder Nikolaas, is a highly motivated  detailed oriented management member and PIPA partner. His attention to detail, his pechant for accuracy and precision became apparent with the success achieved in the greatly increased turnover generated in large part due to his efforts with PIPA beginning in 2005. Nothing was left to chance and due to his meticulous nature, PIPA auctions grew at an unprecedented rate. By July 2008 Thomas began his full time employment with PIPA having already long demonstrated his enormous talents and strengths.

In addition to his hectic schedule with PIPA Thomas is also completing his advanced studies at "Artevelde College" in Ghent. Thomas resides in Knesselare and has become an essential link within the ever expanding PIPA enterprise.

Martin Degrave (Advisor) (°1950)

Martin, who lives in Hamme-Mille, reinforced the PIPA team in the fall of 2001. A small anecdote is connected to Martin’s joining: PIPA published the results of the Barcelona race in 2001. Martin Degrave however, was not mentioned in these results although he had obtained the 63rd national prize. Martin mentioned this to the PIPA team and Nikolaas replied that he did not have enough time to keep track of everything correctly. In his reaction to the e-mail of the rightly angry visitor of the website, Nikolaas added that “if he thought he could do better, he was allowed to do so”. To everybody’s surprise, Martin reacted positively and he even proposed to type out all the national results and publish them on PIPA 

One can state that PIPA’s popularity has grown enormously thanks to Martin and as a result, it is undergoing an almost non-stop and unprecedented growth.

Collaboration between the Gyselbrecht family and Martin and Josiane intensified in 2005 when both parties decided to start working as a pigeon sport team under the name of ‘Degrave-Gyselbrecht’. Martin and Carlo both have a passion for extreme long distance racing

Martin Martens (Expert/Editing ) (°1963)

Martin Martens has known the Gyselbrecht family since 1983. As a youngster Martin actually won a “voucher” or gift certificate from Remi Gyselbrecht and at the time Martin was already an independent fancier of 14 years of age. Needless to say Martin has been involved in the racing pigeon sport his whole life.

Martin had studied to be a laboratory Technician while at the same time also completing a diploma in computer sciences as a programmer. Martin’s career as a pigeon journalist began in 1991 via Ludo Oosterhof the owner, at the time, of “Reisduif”. For more than 10 years Martin worked as the indispensable right hand man of Eric Van Autreve (the top salesman at the time). He gained a great deal of valuable experience in this position and when Eric retired in 2002 Martin took over, so to speak.

Martin’s reputation was thus established and this together with his long term friendship with the Gyselbrecht Family placed him in the perfect position to investigate the opportunities within the pigeon sport brought about with the founding of PIPA by Nikolaas. Nikolaas Gyselbrecht and Martin certainly were a great team preparing loft reports and providing all kinds of up to date info and “breaking news” regarding the racing pigeon sport. Their joint cooperation was highly successful and in due time Martin actually launched the first public auction for “PIPA”. This first auction was highly successful and was the first of many to follow.

By 2007 Martin was officially hired by the PIPA organization with full responsibility for the coordination of all public auctions that were sponsored by PIPA. It is Martins role to make the public auctions a reality! Martins abilities as a top journalist continue to this day with a constant flow of loft reports for PIPA covering the stars of the racing pigeon sport in both Belgium and Holland!

Erwin De Vylder (CIO, Chief Information Officer) (°1981)

Erwin De Vylder, a resident of Deinze, graduated, with “flying colors” as an Industrial Engineer in electronics in 2006. For two years Erwin worked as an engineer for a multinational manufacturer of microchips, “ON Semiconductor Corporation”. Erwin, needless to say, is highly accomplished in his field and though his employment officially began with PIPA in the Autumn of 2008, his input has truly been indispensable.

The future looks very promising. Erwin along with his considerable IT talents has also mastered a clarity of both vision and strategy within the PIPA organization. Erwin and Nikolaas were fortunate to have met as students in 2001 and because Erwin had already developed a great deal of internet savvy and website programming and design ability, he put his “pre graduation expertise” to effective use and developed several modules for the original PIPA site. The racing pigeon sector has undergone and continues to undergo a wave of change and Erwin has been an integral part of enabling these changes in the emerging “modern” racing pigeon sector. The management of PIPA is delighted to have Erwin De Vylder as its “Chief Information Officer”.

Jochen Hebbrecht (Software developer) (°1985)

In 2007 Jochen Hebbrecht graduated with his Masters degree in Computer Science and immediately began his career as a Java software engineer for “RealDolmen” the largest IT company in Belgium. Jochen, a real team player and dedicated professional is our newest full time software developer who will be working closely with Erwin De Vylder our “Chief Information Officer”. Jochen’s main task will entail writing new programming software that will enable PIPA to become even better while scaling as required to keep up with its meteoric internet growth. Jochen will be dedicated to the constant improving of the PIPA website experience while at the same time planning to write innovative new software specifically for racing pigeon applications.

At 25 Jochen Hebbrecht brings a great deal of enthusiasm to PIPA. He likes a challenge, enjoys the social interaction and is a very hard worker focused on success. Even though Jochen has been with PIPA for less than two weeks he has, because of his long term friendship (since the age of 14) with Thomas Gyselbrecht, really followed the development and milestones achieved by PIPA over the years, from the time of its original founding by Nikolaas. The progress of PIPA, was often discussed with Thomas, at pub meetings and other social occasions etc. Clearly Thomas had a passion for PIPA and that “excitement and passion” for PIPA was very infectious.

By 2010, as Jochen was ready for new challenges in his field Thomas and Nikolaas decided that he would be a perfect addition, “young, aggressive, experienced, knowledgeable and exceeding accomplished in the field of software development”. In the end the opportunities available with the PIPA organization were such that Jochen decided to make the leap and become part of this young aggressive PIPA team that is dedicated to changing how the world views pigeons and how we pigeon fanciers worldwide communicate and relate with each other. PIPA has in effect become an ever growing, uniquely vibrant global “piazza” and it is professional programmers like Jochen that make this experience possible!

Minna Yi (COO, Chief Operating Officer) (°1972)

Minna originates from China. This remarkably 'clever' young lady has completed university studies in Russia at the faculty 'oriental languages' (read: languages from Eastern lands). She has then a real 'linguistic talent' that you seldom come across, and speaks fluent Chinese, Russian, Mongolian, English and Dutch. Minna is married to an orthopaedic surgeon (who specializes in everything connected to the spine), and because of further 'clinical research' is since May 2006 active in the Saint Lucas-hospital in Gent. Consequently Minna and her husband have lived in Belgium for the last six years and she now speaks perfect Dutch. In the past she worked as a translator. Minna first came into contact with PIPA when there was a Chinese delegation visiting and she acted as translator by a few loft visits. The experience was mutually positive, so much so that a professional cooperation arose, and Minna joined the PIPA team at the beginning of March. Initially she will act as administrative support for Carlo. But let it be clear that Minna forms an 'extra trump card' for PIPA because of her various worldwide international contacts that she is in touch with daily. She will also form an important link here, on the one side as support for Luna, but also with the direct contacts with Chinese and other international PIPA-clients.

Nan Liu (Translator NL-EN/Coordinator translators) (°1982)

Nan Liu was born Changchun, China in 1982 and has resided in Belgium since 2002. She has pursued advanced studies in Oriental Languages and Cultures at the University of Ghent. Her intuitive language abilities and exceptional skills in her chosen area of studies were fully and highly acknowledged by her University Professors who provided us with good references as to her expertise.

Nan assumed her full time translation responsibilities with PIPA on July 1, 2010. As the numbers of oriental visitors to PIPA continues to grow at unprecedented levels, it has become  essential that we translate emerging news and important reports on a timely basis. As time allows Nan will also begin to diligently translate past archival reports on both Belgian and Dutch Champions in order to provide our oriental visitors with the research necessary for the formulation of proper historical perspectives. By addressing these issues we seek to empower our many visitors, supporters, clients, and friends from  China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. To more fully appreciate the full PIPA experience and to be in a position to make important and truly  informed decisions  as regards both quality and history of the pigeons in question, these reports  are absolutely essential in Chinese.

Georges Gyselbrecht (Loft Manager) (°1963)

Georges reinforced the PIPA team full-time and started on the 1st of November 2008. He is the youngest brother of Carlo Gyselbrecht, and so stems from a real 'pigeon family'. He is married and father of 2 sons. Georges studied electronics and took his first steps in the job market by Aveve (at that time better known as the 'Boerenbond'). A few years later he changed over to the firm 'Bekaert' in Aalter, where he is still employed up until the present time. In his free time Georges took care of the pigeons in the family lofts of father Remi in Knesselare. He also lent a helping hand when necessary by his brother Carlo. For quite some time now PIPA had been looking for someone who could 'manage' the pigeons, not only to take care of their own racing pigeons, but also to take care of the pigeons that take up 'temporary' residence before being transported to all the corners of the world. Taking good care of these pigeons, and delivering them in optimal health and condition to the respective buyers is also one of the responsibilities that PIPA holds in high esteem! For this purpose PIPA searched for someone who was duty-conscious, with a great sense of responsibility. Georges fits this profile perfectly, and with this he also reinforces the family character of PIPA.

Frederik Leliaert (Loft Manager/Racing Team) (°1976)

Frederik started with the pigeon sport as an eight year old lad when he caught a stray pigeon in the street. He took it home, took care of it and was soon bitten by the pigeon bug.

Since 2004 Frederik has become more fanatical with the pigeon sport. He focused on the training, the health and the care of his pigeons and in 2007 this resulted in an international victory from Bordeaux. The following year he won national Narbonne with the same pigeon and in 2010 Frederik won national Bordeaux yet again.

He raced himself into the spotlight in just four years and after a meeting with Carlo Gyselbrecht a decision was made to race further as a combination. Frederik will, together with Carlo, focus on the breeding and racing pigeons and during the racing season he will race the national and international long distance programme.

Website: http://www.duiventopper.nl/
E-mail: ndinaeee.znldvur eleekt @nml

Eric Pijferoen (Assistant Loft Manager) (°1948)

After a career as a coach driver for and international touring company, Eric retired on the 1st of January 2010. To keep him busy he was appointed as assistant Loft Manager by PIPA, where he mainly takes care of the preparations for the pigeons which are to be dispatched.

Eric has never been a pigeon fancier, but since he has been working for PIPA, he has been bitten by the bug. There is already speculation as to when he will erect his own pigeon loft at home.

Fien Amez (Coordinator Sales/Agents) (°1987)

Fien Amez mastered the Chinese language during a four year course of University studies before completing a 5^th year in business economics. Born in Waregem in 1987 she now lives in Desselgem. Fien was hired by the Management of PIPA on August 16 2010 and was soon assigned full responsibilities as assistant to Thomas Gyselbrecht in the ever growing online auctions division.

Fien Amez is currently responsible for the coordination of both online and offline auctions including the internet posting of all pigeons listed online. In addition to the aforementioned duties Fien is responsible for the arrangement of auction settlements, buyer contact, payments for birds purchased by worldwide clients, deliveries of purchased racing pigeons locally, regionally, domestically as well as internationally. Fien finds that her duties are always "fresh" and full of "challenge". She loves the fast paced nature of the pigeon auction division of PIPA. Her employment is very "rewarding" or as one might say: "very exciting".

E-mail: anp.bi efpei@

Niels Cuelenaere (Logistics/Editing ) (°1986)

In October 2010 PIPA hired Niels to help sustain the administrative work during high season. However, having enjoyed an education in English and Scandinavian languages at Ghent University he will also be taking on an essential role as translator of Dutch articles into English. Furthermore, after having finished his language studies he set himself to achieve a Master's degree in Business Economics, once again at the University of Ghent, from which he just recently graduated.

Nicholas Van den Berghe (Coordinator Editing) (°1988)

Nicholas Van den Berghe joined the PIPA-team at the end of November 2010. Nicholas will help with the billing and the settlement of sales as administrative assistant. He will also assist in the translations into German.

Nicholas graduated in 2010 as master in translation (English-German) at the High school Ghent Translation Studies. The high school has the “European Master’s in Translation quality label”. This is the only translation study in the Flanders at European level. During his studies he also studied at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken (Germany).

Nicholas received good reports from his professors and was even given the offer to train for a PhD, which he turned down in order to start work straight away. PIPA is then also his first experience of working.

Jaana De Smet (Financieel Assistent) (°1986)

Jaana werd in 1986 geboren in een gezin met 2 broers en 1 zus. De interesse voor de duivensport heeft ze meegekregen via haar overgrootvader, die een begenadigd speler was. Ze vervoegde het PIPA-team begin april. Jaana werkt als administratief medewerker mee aan de facturatie en de afhandeling van de verkopen. Ze neemt hiermee een deel van de taken van Nicholas Van den Berghe over, die zich meer op het redactionele werk zal richten.

Jaana is in 2009 afgestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Gent als Master in de Japanologie. Jaana heeft naast haar interesse voor de Japanse taal en cultuur ook een passie voor grafisch ontwerp, waardoor ze nog een jaar “Audiovisuele Kunsten Animatiefilm” heeft gestudeerd aan de Hogeschool Gent. Ook deze talenten zullen we bij PIPA kunnen gebruiken. Daarnaast geeft ze ook les Japans in de avondschool in Kortrijk, waardoor ze haar Japanse spreek- en schrijfvaardigheid constant onderhoudt.

Nele Despiegelaere (HR/Financiën) (°1980)

Nele versterkt sinds 2 mei 2011 het PIPA-team als HR-verantwoordelijke en financieel medewerker. Nele woont in dezelfde straat van PIPA, de Eentveldstraat, is getrouwd met Cedric en heeft een dochtertje Louise. Nele zal op termijn meer taken van Carlo en Minna gaan overnemen en zal zodoende ook de administratieve afdeling van PIPA gaan leiden op termijn.

Nele studeerde in 2002 af, als licenciaat Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen aan de KUL, waar ze gedurende twee jaar samen les volgde met Nikolaas Gyselbrecht. Nadien volgde ze nog les voor haar aggregaat in Leuven en werkte erna nog 2 jaar als assistent ; ze doceerde er boekhouding en informatica. Van 2005 tot 2011 werkte ze voor Unizo als startersbegeleider en eerstelijnsadviseur.

Nikolaas kende Nele van vroeger en kende dus haar capaciteiten. PIPA heeft dan ook alles in het werk gezet om haar te overtuigen bij PIPA te komen werken. PIPA ziet de komst van Nele als een enorme versterking.

Taisa Van Steelant (Financial Assistant) (°1988)

At July 18, Taisa started working for PIPA as financial assisitant. In 2009, she obtained her Bachelor's degree in SME Management but wanted to continue studying. She chose Accountancy and Taxation because she likes numbers. She finished both study programmes at the University College of Ghent (Faculty of Applied Business).

She gained her first working experience at the company RPM/Belgium. She worked there as financial assistant and was responsible for the accountancy of a German sister company.

As her grandfather was a keen pigeon fancier, she has been familiar with pigeon sports since her childhood. However, Nele Despiegelaere (see above) was the one to establish contact between Taisa and PIPA. After all, when she was still working for Unizo (the Belgian organisation for the self-employed), Nele was Taisa's supervisor during her apprenticeship. Now both are employed by PIPA.

Thomas Van Cauwenberghe (Chairman Board of Directors PIPA) (°1968)

Thomas Van Cauwenberghe is the Chairman of the Board of PIPA. Born in 1968 Thomas heads a very important Belgian Advertising Agency (“Urban & Field Communication”) as well as being its co-owner. Additionally Thomas is a shareholder in six other enterprises as well as sitting on various Boards. His talents in the marketing, as well as economic fields, are extensive and come to him naturally as he was the head of the SOFINAL marketing department at the tender age of 27. Not an inconsiderable achievement given that SOFINAL, at the time, had an annual turnover of eight billion BEF.

Thomas acts as a "sounding board" for the existing PIPA management and has been involved in virtually every major structural decision that has taken place within the PIPA organization. His passion for our success, his extremely enormous extended contact network and his razor sharp strategic analysis makes him our most important human asset. PIPA’s growth and continuing success is due, in great measure, to the well honed talents that have been made available to us since from our very beginnings! Thanks to the efforts and support of Thomas Van Cauwenberghe the best is yet to come.

Mr. Green Xiang (PIPA China distributor ) (°1978)

Mr Green Xiang at 33 years old, is married and has a lovely four year old daughter. He has been fascinated with racing pigeons since his graduation from University. His wife and daughter are very supportive and take great joy in helping with the daily feeding of the pigeons. He is a member of, and competes in, the Shenzhen Pigeon Union and has had success in races during 2008 and 2010. Green prefers racing and most of his pigeons are descendants of KBDB Ace, NPO Ace, WHZB Ace and even Olympic Ace pigeons. Mr Green Xiang was employed as Senior Manager by Chinatelecom for the past ten years. He was responsible for "Broadband" marketing in Shenzhen.

Through the hard work and dedication of Green Xiang we at PIPA are totally committed to enhancing the PIPA position as the worlds largest pigeon meeting place as well as the PIPA distinction as the worlds most exclusive brokerage company for top quality racing pigeons. Green Xiang is very well known in Shenzhen, and also has many pigeon friends throughout Shanghai, Wuhan, Wenzhou and Zhejiang. Major efforts will be made to further promote PIPA through Chinese sport magazines, local web sites, email newsletters, SMS all intended to encourage ever more Chinese fanciers to visit www.PIPA.be as well as to participate in the PIPA auctions.

Kristof Vercruyssen (Webdeveloper) (°1981)

Kristof woont en werkt in Destelbergen, en is bij PIPA tijdelijk ingehuurd voor het bijstaan van Erwin in de verdere uitbouw van de PIPA-website.

Sinds 2001, toen Kristof samen met Erwin een internet bedrijf opstartte, is Kristof los verbonden met PIPA. Vanaf 2003 werkte Kristof bij verschillende bedrijven als webmaster en webontwikkelaar. 

Toen PIPA in 2009 besliste om de nieuwe website online te plaatsen, kwamen ze handen tekort. Kristof werd gevraagd om enkele maanden mee te helpen. Sinds april werkt Kristof aan het verbeteren van bestaande onderdelen en het ontwikkelen van nieuwe functionaliteiten voor de website.

E-mail: afp.bopr eti@kis

PigeonPhotograpy (PIPA Photographers)

“PigeonPhotography” has been operational in this highly specialized and unique field since 2010. Founded by the duo of Rob Kroezen and Maarten Slaa

“PigeonPhotography” has only one goal and that is to capture, photographically, in vivid color and clarity the essence and unique inner qualities of each and every pigeon we photograph. We employ the most modern and up to date hardware and software available today to ensure that every pigeon we photograph is displayed to its ultimate potential.

Website: http://www.pigeonphotography.nl

Dominique Velghe (PIPA House photographer) (°1968)

Dominique and Nikolaas first met in 2003. At the time Dominique worked at the graphics department of the Roularta Media Group, a dynamic media player in several fields including publishing and printing of niche magazines, newspapers, free magazines and electronic publishing. Roularta operates in many European centers. Dominique’s position within the  graphics department was one of considerable importance carrying with it a great deal of responsibilities.

On occasion, at that time, Dominique employed his considerable professional photographic skills to photograph pigeons for some key friends within the sport. Having had occasion to view these photographs Nikolaas immediately recognized the enormous artistic and photographic talents of Dominique. These talents were put to use on a series of projects and that ultimately culminated in Dominique resigning his position at Roularta to embrace a freelance position as a full time professional pigeon photographer. The risk though certainly considerable at the time, paid off  in spades and at the present time Dominique is involved in photo shoots for some of the most important fanciers across Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. In fact he is in such demand that he is unfortunately forced to refuse assignments for lack of time.

Dominique is also an avid pigeon aficionado  and as such will this year once again become active in the racing pigeon sport in combination with his partner Laurens who is also a resident of Ingelmunster. Apart from the existing professional relationship between Nikolaas and Dominique they (and the whole PIPA team) have grown to become close personal friends.

Jeanette Witte (PIPA-translations Dutch-English)

Jeanette is an integral part of PIPA’s continued push to publish more and more material in English. Though PIPA is uniquely a Belgian enterprise its reach is global and much of that world wide audience communicates in English. To this end, Jeanette who’s roots originated in North West England, Accrington and who’s extended family now resides in Southern England plays a critical role. Jeanette, crossed the channel and met and married her husband Rinus and settled in the Dutch town of Terneuzen. Together they have two wonderful children: Angela and Shawn.

It was a chance event that brought PIPA and Jeanette together. In fact it occurred when Rinus sought the veterinary expertise of Dr. Carlo Gyselbrecht. This chance meeting has lead to Jeanette becoming a PIPA translator. She does her work quickly, perfectly and accurately and has become the “cornerstone” of our “English” efforts which service the needs of our ever growing global audience. Our English language reports are “hot off the press” thanks to the ageless talents of our Mrs. Witte.

Janet Lee (PIPA-translations English-Chinese)

Janet Lee comes from Shanghai, China. She used to work as an underwriter of the Marine Department in American International Group AIU insurance company Shanghai branch. Due to her great passion for racing pigeons, and thanks to "Red Eagle" (one of PIPA's big customers) and Luna Lai (CEO PIPA Agents China/Taiwan), Janet got the opportunity to serve for the world's No.1 racing pigeon website, PIPA. She mainly helps Luna Lai with the translations of PIPA auctions for Chinese customers, and helps PIPA's editorial staff translate race information and winning loft's reports during the auction break as well. Janet's credo is "Once you do it, you must do it best"! She also likes singing, playing the piano and collecting Barbies! And it's her great honour to be a part of such a happy international family as PIPA! 

Jianming Liu (PIPA-translations English-Chinese) (°1982)

Liu Jianming was born in 1982, he lives in Hebei Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a master’s degree in animal genetics, and then took his first job in a vocational school as a genetics teacher. During that time he was greatly attracted to the sport of pigeon racing, as a result of which he joined the school owned EZZ loft at the end of 2008. He is responsible for breeding and racing there. Luckily his pigeons achieved satisfactory results both in local and one loft races in 2009 and 2010. In July 2010 he contacted PIPA and became involved in the translation of loft reports and racing articles.  Besides racing pigeons, football is another favorite hobby in his life, he likes to discuss football races via internet with his football fan friends every weekend. Together with his colleagues he will bring more services to Chinese pigeon fanciers in the future.

Luna Lai (Ceo PIPA Agents China/Taiwan) (°1965)

Luna is Taiwanese and lives in Hong Kong. The PIPA team welcomed Luna in the fall of 2004. Her arrival marked a new era for PIPA. In 2004, PIPA had not yet made headway in two important pigeon export areas: China and Taiwan. Thanks to Luna’s contribution, PIPA became one of the best and most trusted brokers in pigeon sport land in no time. Online sales as well as offline sales had an enormous boost.

The Chinese people are well-known for their spirit of enterprise, diplomacy and the fact that they work hard. This nation has an alphabet of over thousand characters which is being taught to them at an early age already. Because of that, they develop a huge intelligence. All these features are also Luna’s qualities. She has a great sense of accuracy, is committed, passionate,… it’s really incredible!

It is clear that since Luna joined our team, PIPA has grown strongly. Lots of Taiwanese and Chinese pigeon fanciers are appealing to her knowledge to make new purchases in Belgium and / or the Netherlands.

E-mail: aapn.bp eui@l

Poul Staerkaer (PIPA Agent Denmark) (°1944)

Married to Ellinor and father of four children, Poul Staerkaer was born in Denmark 66 years ago. It’s hard to believe that he  is now officially a “Pensioner” and ready to really seriously start enjoying his birds. Poul started with his racing pigeon adventures in 1960 and is currently a member of the 23 member club Køge. He has held various positions within the sport including a 12 year stint as Chairman of his local club. Additionally Poul was Long Distance Champion in the Copenhagen area in 2008, Middle  Distance Champion in Copenhagen area in 2001. He has twice been number 4 for the General Championship  in Denmark. He has won several Championships in his club, and has had many regional winners plus 1 National Winner. The latest regional winner was week 20 2010 from Aabenraa.

Very knowledgeable as regards the sport in Denmark, Poul’s past professional experience, acquired over a 45 year career, will certainly  prove beneficial in his efforts to establish a firm basis in Denmark for the already powerful “PIPA Brand”. Being service-minded, reliable, cooperative and quality conscious are key attributes of Poul’s persona and these are the very attributes that PIPA values most.

Poul knows that there is a lot of work to be done if the PIPA brand is to be developed to its fullest potential in Denmark but he has confidence in his ability to ensure that Danish fanciers come to appreciate the “Jewels of the Sky”. With over 50 years of experience and with many winners to his credit it will not be long before the word gets out and Danish fanciers begin to compete globally for the purchase of the finest racing pigeon bloodstock in the world available exclusively from PIPA.

Poul sees himself as a "resource" and he is ready, able and willing to assist and service the needs of all fanciers throughout Denmark.

Tel: +45 56656375

Website: http://www.staerkaerduer.dk/
E-mail: alp.bpupi@ eo

Adrien Mirabelle (PIPA Supply Agent Belgium (Wallonia) and France) (°1988)

The connection between PIPA and Adrien began in 2008 when he contacted Nikolaas Gyselbrecht to request making a report in French. Of course, Nikolaas answered positively.
PIPA had to develop its business in Wallonia and, step by step, Adrien proved to be an important collaborator so that nowadays he is almost working full time with us.

His objectives? Meeting the fanciers from the south side of our country to report about them, to translate the reports published in PIPA into French and promote the activities of PIPA as much as possible in Wallonia.
His qualities? His dynamism, his ambition and his love of the pigeon sport.

Where the practice is concerned, this young lad has been a pigeon fancier since childhood and he took his first license in 1999. In 2002, he won the 2nd place in the national youth championships RFCB (-25 years).
After a few successive stops and an experience in combination, he invested his energy on building a new colony for 2011 and he is already booking great success.

When must specify that Adrien is still a student and he will enter his fourth year at the University of Mons in Politic & Economic matters.

E-mail: an ep.Abirpei@d

Vincent van de Kerk (Public Relations/Main Coordinator Public Sales/PIPA Agent The Netherlands) (°1970)

Vincent and PIPA first came into contact with each other through the auction for the Tsunami-ramp at the end of 2004. PIPA asked Vincent if he would donate a voucher. The year 2004 was a real super year for Vincent van de Kerk from Giessen, he was 1st Loft Champion Overnight Long Distance "Brabant 2000" with a big advantage and with up until now the record number of points, and in the same year he was also 3rd National Loft Champion Overnight Long Distance (NPO) and 5th International Competition Extreme Long Distance (Gouden Duif/ Golden pigeon).

For the last 20 years Vincent has worked in the financial world, wherefrom 10 years by the Rabobank as office manager / financial advisor. He has had pigeons since he was 8 years old and with success. Through his inexhaustible enthusiasm, great passion for the breeding and the evaluating of the pigeons he will be of great value to the PIPA-team. It clicked from the first contact with the PIPA-team and there was immediately a mutual respect. Recently Vincent van de Kerk was also appointed as head coordinator Public Auctions and as he is very good in networking he maintains contacts Belgium/The Netherlands/Germany.

E-mail: atp.ncbvpiei@n e

Dr. Masafumi Uozumi (PIPA Agent Japan) (°1971)

Mr Uozumi is a veterinary, living in the south of Japan, more specifically in Kumamoto. He will represent PIPA in the future in Japan. A veterinary specialised in pigeons is very rare in Japan ; on 15.000 fanciers there are only about 5.

Mr Uozumi is very motivated and ambitious to make PIPA very famous in Japan. He is also racing pigeons and recently bought the best Barcelona pigeon over 3 years in the Netherlands. Let's hope his descendants will win good results in Japan.

Website: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d5rwkps_13hfk7x2dg
E-mail: aipsm.bamp eui@af

Geert De Clercq (Supply Agent Belgium) (°1973)

As a 10-year old boy he was already so interested in the pigeon sport that in his village Sint-Joris-Weert (Oud -Heverlee by Leuven) he went to watch the pigeons “land” here and there. As a 12-year old he raced in combination with grandfather Vital Bruggemans, a fearful combination in the sprint and middle distance races. In 2002, due to health reasons of grandfather, his marriage to Inge, the move to Ghent and the busy job of Geert they stopped racing in St Joris Weert. In 2003 Geert picked the thread up again by racing with bosom friend Erik Limbourg, who he has now done the administration for over the last 10 years and together with Erik belongs to the absolute top of the international pigeon sport.

At professional level Geert has been involved in the pigeon sport full-time for the last 15 years:
1996-2001 as Export Manager by the firm Comed. Then 10 years (2001-2011) as Sales Manager by Bricon  where worldwide thousands of clubs and fanciers could call him day or night 7/7 for advice and expertise in electronic clocks. In 2012 Geert will remain in contact with his Bricon clients on a self-employed basis.

After the successful auction of the Limbourg-pigeons, organised by PIPA in December 2009 the contact between the brothers Nikolaas and Thomas on the one side and Geert on the other, a true friendship has arisen and they have remained very close, resulting in the current collaboration between both parties. Geert will offer his expertise in the Belgian- and international pigeon sport to PIPA and use it to the full to ensure that PIPA will also have the bery best material on the auction table in the future. Together with Thomas and Adrien Mirabelle (who represents PIPA in Wallonië) will be the point of contact in Belgium for the fanciers, mainly where everything to do with the sales of pigeons is concerned.

PIPA strongly believes that Geert offers enormous added value and will continue to do so in the future and will make PIPA stronger than it already is.

From now on you can contact Geert at:
Mobile:  +32 (0)475.75.21.75
 

E-mail: atp.gbe epi@er

Mynuddin Ahamed (PIPA Agent Bangladesh) (°1972)

PIPA is proud to announce the appointment of our newest addition to the worldwide PIPA team. In our continuing efforts to methodically expand the PIPA brand worldwide we have appointed Mynuddin Ahamed as our exclusive agent for Bangladesh. Bangladesh officially known as "The People's Republic of Bangladesh" is a country in South Asia bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar). Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh 1972, Mynuddin Ahamed operates a very successful import export business.

Married with one child he began racing pigeons in 2007 in one of the three regional clubs (Bangladesh Racing Pigeon Owners Association) with a total of 65 members. Mynuddin is well known to pigeon fanciers throughout the country and is committed to promoting the sport of racing pigeons but more important the introduction of high quality breeding stock necessary to increase the overall quality of the racing pigeons currently available in Bangladesh. Mynuddin has already created a great deal of goodwill not only within the local racing pigeon fraternity but also with associates in India.

Over the coming years the market in Bangladesh for superior European racing pigeons will grow under the direction of Mynuddin Ahamed. Young, dedicated, knowledgeable and aggressive are only part of the attributes that will serve him well. But just as important to PIPA is Mynuddin’s sense of value and fairness. As Mynuddin so clearly stated: "I am here to help my fellow racing pigeon fanciers, to provide, information, contacts and know how, to provide the very best quality racing pigeon bloodstock that Europe through PIPA has to offer!"

E-mail: anp.udbdp eiyi@nm

Gutierrez Rodriguez Juan Carlos (PIPA Agent Spain) (°1967)

Juan is a 44 year old mechanical engineer who was born in León – Spain. Though Juan has been breeding racing pigeons since the age of 17 he actually started  racing in 1996 and is currently a member and strong competitor in the “Colombofilo Leones” Club. Juan is fascinated by both showing as well as breeding and has been quite successful in both, in fact his recent show results include the winning of  1st  Nat + 3rd  Nat + 4th  Nat. Standard Class in the Spanish Exhibitions of 2008-2009-2010.His recent race results have included 1st  / 1080 birds 250 km 50% Van Noordenne ( Mother purchased on PIPA) ,1st  / 550 birds 575 km ,3rd / 460 birds 575 km and 6th  / 435 birds 510 km. Juan enjoys both breeding and racing  and is in a perfect position to assist interested Spanish fanciers in acquiring the very best  racing pigeons in the world given his close relationship with the worldwide PIPA family! Because Juan Carlos is well known within the Spanish sport he is in  the perfect position to assist in greatly raising  the level of participation in the PIPA auctions. Juan is dedicated to promoting a greater awareness in Spain of the PIPA brand by writing articles, translating content into Spanish so that key Spanish fanciers become increasingly aware of the overall PIPA philosophy, as well as the considerable advantages to be had by  purchasing through the PIPA network. Juan is definitely no stranger to promotional activities within the sport and to this end he will be developing a series of promotional activities all centered around facilitating greater participation of Spanish Fanciers in the PIPA process. Juan is clearly at your disposal for all of your racing pigeon needs.

E-mail: anpu.bp eai@j

Dr. Dinu Mihai (PIPA Agent Roumania) (°1981)

is a young Romanian veterinarian, since his childhood addicted to pigeon sport and everything related to pigeons. Mihai got in touch with Nikolaas from PIPA in 2000 via e-mail. In 2003 they met each other for the first time in real life. Since then the friendship between both is so close that Mihai calls Nikolaas even his "Romanian brother". Mihai is, despite his young age, one of the biggest walking encyclopedias in pigeon sport; even people like Ad Schaerlaeckens have great admiration for this young Romanian pigeon talent. In Romanian the greatest pigeon racers consult him for medical advice about their pigeons but also to make new pigeon acquisitions in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, etc...

Mihai is advisor of Mr Marcel Nicolaescu (Bucharest) and Mr Bebe Chicheanu (Constanta).

Website: http://www.porumbeipipa.ro/
E-mail: aiph.biamp ei@

Derrick Camilleri (PIPA Agent Malta)

He began his pigeon carrier in 1997. Derrick & his father Saviour are members in 2 different clubs , the Central Velocity Pigeon Club & Zurrieq Pigeon Club. 

Both of them share their racing pigeon responsibilities by overseeing the racing aspects & concentrating on the breeding too.  

Derrick  currently holds the position of Race Secretary at the CENTRAL VELOCITY PIGEON CLUB and  is well known by all of the fanciers in Malta and as such is in the perfect position to effectively promote  greater awareness of the PIPA brand throughout Malta.  With 25 clubs and Federation involved in racing in Malta there will be a lot of potential to promote the  PIPA brand. The entire PIPA organization is very much looking forward to closely cooperating with  Derrick in effectively further developing the Maltese racing pigeon market .With the full support of the PIPA worldwide family at his disposal whether your interests are in exceptional Breeding stock or exceptional performance stock  Derrick is  available to help you in any way possible.  

Tomasz Wiczling (PIPA Agent Poland) (°1982)

Tomasz lives on the countryside in Poland, near Koscierzyna (about 50 km from Gdansk). He graduated Technical University of Gdansk, The Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics. Next to his work for PIPA, he works as Computer Programer. Pigeons are part of his life already since he was very young. Actively he only started racing in 2004. In Poland fanciers have to participate in all-round races. Because Tomasz believes pigeons can only do very well on one very specific distance, he has seperate lofts for each distance. For the long distance he introduced Gyselbrecht pigeons in 2006, that's how PIPA came in touch with him. Tomasz is hard-working and very dedicated to make PIPA a brandname in Poland. He also helped PIPA to buy the Barcelona pigeon that flew over 1.800 km in Poland.

E-mail: azgpm.ibnwlpzoiti@a e.sc

Rocco Toscani (PIPA Agent Italië) (°1980)

Rocco Toscani (born in Cecina , Italy) was appointed as PIPA's exclusive agent for Italy. Married to his charming wife “Benedetta” and with one daughter Luce both of whom are very supportive of Rocco in all of his many endeavors. Toscani started racing pigeons in 2005 and the sport in Italy is truly fortunate to have attracted such a dedicated and creative talent to its ranks. Dedicated to excellence in all that he undertakes it’s not surprising that Rocco has become very successful in his short racing career. Racing in Tuscany in the Grossetana Group Toscani ‘s achievements include “Young Bird Regional Championship for 2007,2008 and 2009”.”Middle Distance Regional Champion 2008,2009”, “Short Distance Regional Champion 2008”, “Regional Long Distance Champion 2008”, “Federal Long Distance Champion 2009”, “Interprovincial Middle Distance Champion 2010”, “Interprovincial Short Distance Champion 2010”.

Rocco, as the youngest member of the Italian Federation Direction Council, is well known throughout the Italian Pigeon fraternity and as a highly successful professional communicator he intends to attract Italian youth into the sport by his ingenious use of websites, social networks, creative promotions never before utilized in Italy. Toscani’s job is communication, his passion is racing pigeons so get ready for an explosion of creative approaches to strengthening the PIPA brand, promotion of PIPA customers, promotion of PIPA events including special PIPA auctions. Italian fanciers are encouraged to make use of Rocco’s talents, his PIPA connections throughout Europe and the world.

Whether interested in strengthening your breeding loft or future race results Rocco Toscani and the entire PIPA organization are at the disposal of fanciers throughout Italy. Rocco put it simply when he stated: “Our Dedication is to quality and our commitment is to making you the “best that you can be’!

E-mail: aop.ocbpcri@ e

Said Kohen & Mouhssine Bouzoubaa (PIPA Agenten Marokko)

Our exclusive PIPA  representatives are comprised of a “tandem”  that includes both Mr. Mouhssine Bouzoubaa a single 39 year old Doctor of Pharmacology and his close friend Mr. Said Kohen, a 51 year old high ranking executive who is in charge of foreign co-operation in Morocco. Both these professionals will be jointly responsible to further develop the “PIPA Brand” throughout Morocco. Jointly it is their intent to build even greater awareness  of the “PIPA Brand” through the expanding availability and growing local use of “social media” as well as an advertising campaign in local newspapers and internet forums intent upon directing enthusiasts to the PIPA Web site. The preparation of articles outlining the history of, importance of, and services provided by PIPA to fanciers globally as well as television exposure.

Mouhssine Bouzoubaa is a member of ACC (Association Casablancaise de Colombophilie) and first started with his racing pigeons at the age of ten and now cultivates a number of prominent European strains. Mouhssine  is the President of the largest club in Morocco (180 members), that is shipping more than 5000 pigeons to their weekly races.

Mr. Said Kohen, born in kénitra, Morocco is married with two children and has been the President of The Moroccan Association Of Racing Pigeons since 1988.

Together these two superbly successful fanciers are dedicated to further growing the racing pigeon sport throughout Morocco as well as making the very finest performance and breeding stock available to fanciers throughout Morocco via the services of the entire worldwide PIPA network. Collectively this “Tandem” is known to virtually all of the Moroccan fanciers and thus are in the perfect position to further develop and expand the purchase of pigeons in Morocco through PIPA. Plans include the creation of a Moroccan Federation of Sport Pigeons as well as concerted efforts to put Morroco on the Global Pigeon Map over the next few years by the creation of a worldwide one loft race in Morocco similar to the South Africa Million Dollar race.

E-mailadres:said@PIPA.be

E-mail: aapabu. ebpzbi@oou

Andy Larentzakis (PIPA agent Canada & USA)

Andy serves the ever growing needs of the North American market and his territory includes both the USA and Canada. Andy lives with his lovely wife and two children in Canada, in the Greater Toronto Area. Andy comes from a family of restaurant entrepreneurs and his family has been very successful in this field due to their constant attention to quality and customer service. At 40 years of age Andy has operated a very successful importing and exporting business of pigeons and quarantine service and he has developed a dedicated customer base in both Canada and the USA. Highly knowledgeable in all matters relating to import and export procedures he is in a unique position to facilitate the needs of PIPA customers throughout the very important North American market.

Andy has been fascinated by racing pigeons his entire life. It would be safe to say that it is much more than an hobby or even a sport, it is for him a “way of life”. He has much in common with the overall PIPA philosophy as both, we at PIPA and Andy are truly passionate about exceptional racing pigeons. Over the coming months and years, together with and through PIPA  Andy Larentzakis is totally committed to providing fanciers throughout the USA and Canada the very “best of the best” that Europe has to offer. Through Andy’s efforts the PIPA team is always at your service to help ensure the long term success of both your breeding and racing programs!

E-mail: ayp e.nbpai@d

Pieter Oberholster (PIPA agent UK)

The Namibian born Pieter Oberholster currently resides in Staffordshire and is now officially a strong addition to an already very powerful European PIPA network. Pieter is a solid family man who has a delightful three year old twins, Egan and Netanya. A straight shooting entrepreneur, who has always been self employed and who has made it a point to deal fairly, honestly, honorably and reliably in both his business as well as personal relationships. All qualities that PIPA values highly! His word is his bond and as such Pieter is already responsible for the promotion within the UK of the hugely successful "Sun City Million Dollar Race" as well as the Tenerife based "Derby Arona" one loft race.

Pieter believes, as does the entire PIPA organization, in a promising future for the racing pigeon sport in the UK. He is as such dedicated to improving it further, through hard work, a commitment to transparency as well as delivering true value to his PIPA clients throughout the UK. Pieter views himself as a facilitator, dedicated to customer service and education. "As a PIPA exclusive representative for the UK I see myself as your resource, I am here to help, to research, to educate" and to enable UK fanciers to purchase the very best performance and breeding bloodlines offered anywhere in the world today.

Pieter, due to his Sun City and Derby Arona responsibilities is already in contact with UK fanciers across the United Kingdom. The coming years Pieter will increase his already extensive network and further refine his networking abilities to provide his UK and PIPA contacts with up to the minute intelligence on all matters of interest to them.

E-mail: arp.btippi e@ee

Recep Ozturk (PIPA Agent Turkey ) (°1969)

Recep was born in Bursa Turkey in 1969 and is a mining engineer. Married to his very supportive wife Filiz they have 3 lovely children including a 19 year old son a 15 year old daughter and their youngest also a daughter, just six years old. Though Recep has kept roller pigeons since the age of seven he is now totally fascinated with racing pigeons and to this end he also has the total support of his father. Though there was no club in existence in Bursa in 2000 Recep and others established a club in 2001 that now has over 50 members. Recep has personally purchased, with great success I might add, pigeons from PIPA beginning in 2001. To date Recep has been very successful winning over 100 trophies in the past 10 years with average birdages in races of 1,500 pigeons. In addition to these trophies Recep also had the 1^st Ace Pigeon in the 2008 and 2010 one loft races in Turkgucu Ermeydaný.

The role of Recep Ozturk will be to further promote the PIPA brand throughout Turkey and one of the ways he will do so is by competing in the Turkish National races (800-1100km). Additionally Recep is in a position to support the efforts and needs of fanciers in cities throughout Turkey including Istanbul, Manisa, Izmir and others. We invite fanciers throughout Turkey to contact Recep as he and the entire PIPA is totally dedicated to assisting you to become the best that you can possibly be, by supplying the best bloodstock available in the world today.

E-mail: app.ercbpei@ e

Lars Corneliussen (PIPA Agent Norway) (°1975)

Lars is 35 years old and is, by profession, an “educator” and father of a boy and a girl. Lars has been totally fascinated with racing pigeons since age 11 and currently competes in one of the largest clubs in Norway called “Oslo Brevdueklubb” as “Tom and Lars Corneliussen”.The partnership has been very successful including the winning of general champion in their region as well as regularly appearing in the top five in the National overall championships and in the top three in the national long distance championships. Lars is currently the treasurer of the Oslo Brevdueklubb and from 2006 to 2010 he was the editor of the Norwegian national racing pigeon magazine. It comes as no surprise to find that his children love the pigeons given that Lars is in fact the fourth generation of racing pigeon fanciers in his family. His father was  the President of the National Federation until 2010 but this also runs in the family given that his grandfather was President of both the Norwegian as well as the Scandinavian Federations and also the winner of “His Majesties Trophy”!

When asked what his goals were as the “PIPA” exclusive representative Lars responded that it was his intention “to make PIPA the most visited website among pigeon-fanciers in Norway, and to assist the Norwegian fanciers”. Lars intends to initiate regular email correspondence as well as a series of articles in the National Magazines about what’s “hot” in Belgium through “PIPA”. All told these efforts will certainly increase visibility for the very important “PIPA” auctions. Lars is well-known nationally and will be diligently working towards the establishment of a unique “National Auction” that hopefully will become a regular tradition.

E-mail: aspl.bp ei@ar

Daniel Krajcik (PIPA Agent Slowakije) (°1981)

Born in Partizanske, Daniel is a 2004 graduate of the “University of Economics”  and is currently single. With a Doctoral degree in the field of world economics Daniel currently teaches strategy and international business at the University level. Daniel is a member of the “Presidium of the Slovak Federation” as well as sitting on the “FCI Youth Committee”. Currently racing in the province of Topolcany  in western Slovakia Daniel has in fact been a dedicated racing pigeon enthusiast since rescuing an “exhausted” racing pigeon  that had landed in his garden at age seventeen. Clearly Daniel is totally familiar with the economic situation in Central and Eastern Europe and as such he is ideally situated and totally dedicated  to using his extensive knowledge and marketing experience to insure that the “PIPA” brand becomes universally recognized in Slovakia.

Daniel is extremely well positioned to promote the activities of “PIPA” through the use of Slovakian magazines, websites as well as the writing of articles. As a Board member of “The Slovak Federation” and as a well known author of articles on our sport in local newspapers and magazines a day does not go by where he does not actively interact with members, nation-wide, of the Slovak pigeon fraternity. Daniel is proud of the fact that he was directly involved, as well as being responsible  for the introduction of the “Slovakian” racing pigeon sport to the entire racing pigeon world at the “FCI Congress in Oostende. This included the organization of exhibitions, auctions and various fanciers meetings all of which were promoted via the pigeon media at all levels. Interestingly enough the XXIII Olympiad of Racing Pigeons in 2013 will in fact be held in Slovakia and Daniel will be working with PIPA and PIPA network worldwide to help insure that this event is a huge success for Slovakia. Given the intensities of his teaching responsibilities and his other far ranging responsibilities Daniel advises that the racing pigeon sport provides him with a , much needed and relaxing hobby. Though Daniel has various short and middle distance lines, of Belgian and German origin, in his lofts , he is in fact most proud of his specialty colony of 50 pure white racing pigeons. The Management of PIPA is delighted with our newest “PIPA Family” member and we invite serious racing pigeon enthusiasts throughout Slovakia to contact Daniel for any assistance and insights they may require.

E-mail: alpd. ebinpeai@

Sergey Stegantsev (PIPA Agent Russia) (°1960)

Sergey lives in Russia, in the city of Moscow, the capital of Russia! He is addicted to pigeons since he was a little child, but only 6 years ago, his sport turned into a real hobby. Since many years, Sergey came to visit PIPA every day as it is his most important source to find information about the pigeon sport. He likes PIPA a lot, started to buy pigeons from PIPA and in this way the friendship grew between Sergey and PIPA.

Website: http://www.moscowpigeons.ru/index.php?id=6
E-mail: ayp.sbgrpi@e ee

Nigel Jarvis (PIPA Agent Australië) (°1975)

Representing the incredible Island Continent of Australia the newest member of our elite PIPA team is Nigel Jarvis. Born in Ballarat, Australia married to his incredibly supportive wife Michelle and the proud father of four beautiful daughters Nigel is clearly a native Australian. At 34 Nigel is in his final year at the University of Ballarat studying commerce. Nigel is currently employed as a payroll clerk is his local hospital. Nigel’s racing career began in 1991 and over the past four years has won over 20 races the highlight of which was his winning of the “Taree Invitational One Loft Race” in 2009.Nigels loft is made up of 25 pairs of European imports including pigeons from PIPA.

Nigel currently flies with Ballarat West Homing club which is affiliated with the Central Highlands Pigeon Combine and the Ballarat East Homing Club affiliated with the Eureka Pigeon Federation. Over the years Nigel has held positions within the sport but his dedication is such that Nigel is committed to developing a strong connection between the fanciers of Australia and those of Europe via PIPA. In this fashion Nigel feels that he can best serve the needs of the Australian pigeon racing community by connecting them to the finest bloodstock in the world via PIPA the most respected name in elite pigeon sales in the world. As the owner of a successful Australian stud www.viplofts.com.au as well as an Australian pigeon auction site www.onlinepigeonaustions.com.au as well as a major race www.htwc.com.au it is safe to say that Nigel Jarvis is well known throughout Australia. Nigel’s dedication, his forward thinking, his pursuit of excellence, his youth and his commitment to providing timely information, to the greatest number of dedicated racing pigeon fanciers throughout Australia makes him a most welcome addition to the PIPA team. Nigel summed it up nicely when he stated “ my goal is to provide accurate and timely information on the best bloodstock available in the world today” and “I am here to help all Australians to achieve their goals in both racing and breeding”. Nigel is committed to working hard for the effective promotion of the PIPA brand in an open, honest and transparent fashion.

Website: http://viploftsonline.com.au/

Herman Janse van Rensburg (PIPA Agent South Africa) (°1973)

The management if PIPA is delighted to advise that  38 year old Herman Janse van Rensburg of South Africa  has been appointed as our exclusive PIPA representative for the important South African market. Herman Janse van Rensburg has an enormous amount of  natural talent and experience within the sport and along with his many duties he is  also the Director of Allflight One Loft Race situated at Carnival City Casino in Brakpan, Gauteng. Herman first started in the sport in 1984 and he continues to compete actively and successfully in the Eland Racing Pigeon Club that in turn is affiliated with the Gauteng Pigeon Union as well as Transvaal Racing Pigeon Federation. Consistency is his hallmark and he has scored within the top 10% at the club and federation level for the past ten years. Herman’s family including his father, uncle and cousin are all diehard racing pigeon fanciers.

Due to his one loft involvements Herman is exceedingly well known throughout South Africa and many parts of the world. Herman has, since 2004, been successfully hosting auctions of retired Carnival City racing pigeons and in response to requests from international fanciers he now also has at least two auctions yearly of pigeons from outside South Africa.  Herman Janse van Rensburg has developed a network of racing pigeon contacts around the world  and  all of his contacts and expertise will ultimately be used to further benefit the PIPA brand. Herman will no doubt strive to promote the PIPA brand in South Africa by making his pigeon contacts aware of the benefits of PIPA especially when it comes to on-line auctions and in future on-site auctions of top international pigeons in South Africa. It is Herman’s plan to even further promote PIPA  using the existing communication channels  of Allflite. These are exciting times for the South African racing pigeon sport and the combination of the expertise, enthusiasm  and contacts of Herman Janse van Rensburg together with the acknowledged vision, integrity and unsurpassed quality of PIPA will  no doubt make for a very powerful and effective combination for the future growth of the sport within South Africa! Whether breeder or avid competitor please feel free to contact Herman Janse van Rensburg to discover  how PIPA can help  you in achieveing your goals.

Kerby G. Chua (PIPA Agent the Philippines) (°1975)

Kirby Chua was born in Manila, the Philippines, and at 35 years old he is one of the youngest members of “The Philippine Homing Pigeon Association Inc” holding the position of Director/Corporate Secretary. The PHA is the oldest and most prestigious racing pigeon organization in the country founded over 50 years ago. Married and having one son, Kerby is the Chief Executive Officer of a large Real Estate Development Company.

Clearly his organizational talents and his dedication to success are important attributes that are also necessary in realizing success in the racing pigeon sport. Though Kerby only began competing in 2006 he has already been Lap Champion several times and has been the overall winner as well. He is very well known throughout the sport and he often receives visitors seeking advice and consultation regarding the acquisition of racing pigeons.

Kerby Chua is dedicated to promoting the PIPA brand and as he has stated it is his mission to bring PIPA on the “Minds of every fancier in the Philippines”. Kerby Chua is an enormous resource via which the fanciers of the Philippines have access to all of the knowledge, contacts and services of the entire PIPA organization worldwide.

Dr. Goran Grafina (PIPA Agent Kroatië, Bosnië-Herzegovina, Macedonië, Montenegro, Slovenië en Servië) (°1970)

Dr. Goran Grafina was Born in Pakrac, Hrvatska (Croatia) in 1970, is married and has two sons Matej 16 years and Alen 11 years old. Dr. Grafina is a lifelong pigeon enthusiast having received his first pigeons at 15 years of age in 1985. A member in good standing of "Club Lipik" in Lipik he was  club Champion as well as 4th General Champion in the "Croatia Association" in 2010. Dr. Grafina also holds the position of President of the "Expert Board" in the Croatia Carrier Pigeon Association.

Well known  in the local pigeon community Dr. Grafina is in a perfect position to further introduce and actively promote the "PIPA" brand in his territories. A pigeon lover at heart, he is dedicated to the promotion of the sport of racing pigeons and the role that quality performance pigeons play in future success.

E-mail: anpr.b epagi@o

Many thanks to ...

In addition to its regular full time employees and collaborators PIPA also works with a host of independent collaborators. Actually too many to mention individually. Even so we would like to acknowledge the efforts of these independent collaborators because It is certain that without their input and their passion PIPA would not readily have achieved all that has been achieved. We at PIPA would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for helping us to make PIPA the “Global Piazza” of the racing pigeon world!