Rod Ellingworth is currently the GB Elite Road Coach and the Director of Racing at Ineos Grenadiers. Having represented GB from 1989 until his retirement in 2001 he then founded and ran the GB Cycling Academy. Then, alongside Dave Brailsford and Fran Millar, he was instrumental in creating Team Sky in November 2008. His memoir, Project Rainbow, which he has written with William Fotheringham, was published by Faber & Faber in 2013.