Gérard Vroomen (born 20 July 1971, Nijmegen)[1] is a Dutch-born mechanical engineer and the owner of Open Cycle.
Readers of VeloNews, CycleSport, Inside Triathlon and Slowtwitch voted Cervélo as the #1 brand they intended to purchase in 2011.
[2] A book titled To Make Riders Faster was released in April 2018 telling the story of Gerard Vroomen and Phil White, co-founders of Cervélo Cycles, meeting at McGill University and taking their company from a school basement project in Montreal, Canada, to their bikes winning in the Tour de France, the Olympics and Ironman.
[3] Gerard Vroomen (co-founder of Cervélo) and Andy Kessler (Former CEO of BMC), have partnered together in a business called Open.
[4] In March 2015, three years after selling his stake in Cervélo, Vroomen announced to have teamed up with 3T CEO René Wiertz to acquire all shares in 3T.