01 —The Room.
Quarterly gatherings.
Members-only events held in cities where the industry actually meets. Operators, founders, decision-makers. No badges, no panels, no programme. The format is conversation.
Est. 2026 / Barcelona / Members only
A private membership for the padel industry
The room behind the room.
A private members' network for the commercial top of the padel industry. By invitation and application.
Opening June 2026 · 50 founding members
A note on the state of the industry
Padel is the fastest-growing sport in the world. It is also the most fragmented. Clubs do not know sponsors. Sponsors do not know rights-holders. The people moving the commercial flows operate in silos.
Pipeline Club is the room where those silos end.
02 —The Network.
Direct access to the layer above.
Direct member-to-member access, plus warm introductions facilitated by the founding team to sponsors, rights-holders, top players, and federation figures.
03 —The Brief.
A monthly members-only briefing.
Commercial intelligence, market reads, and curated signals mapped to your vertical. Built on the infrastructure that powers Padel Pipeline. Private. Never published.
For the four corners of the industry
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Club Operators
Building corporate revenue and partnerships.
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Brands & Manufacturers
Closing distribution and retail deals.
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Event Organisers
Locking in sponsors and venues.
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Tech & Service Providers
Getting in front of decision-makers.
Two tiers
Member
The Network.
Full access to the club. Quarterly gatherings, the monthly Brief, and direct connection to the founding network.
150 EUR / month
6-month minimum. 30 days notice thereafter.
Annual: 1,500 EUR / year (saving 300 EUR).
Patron
The Network, and beyond.
Everything in Member, plus access to a curated calendar of exclusive experiences. Private luxury stays, coaching sessions with top-tier players, and access to events that sit outside the public industry calendar.
250 EUR / month
6-month minimum. 30 days notice thereafter.
Annual: 2,500 EUR / year (saving 500 EUR).
Membership is by application. Founding cohort closes after Barcelona, May 2026.
The founding cohort
Fifty members. Then the doors close.
00 / 50 founding seats
Founding members shape the network. They lock in pricing for life, hold priority access to every gathering, and have direct input into how the club is built. After fifty, the doors close until the next cohort opens.
- Founding pricing locked for life
- Priority access to every member event
- Direct line to the founding team
The founding team
Jose Luis "El Negro" Gonzalez
Founding Partner, Industry Access
Three decades inside padel, with relationships across players, tournaments, sponsors, brands, and media. Brings the industry-access dimension to the club. The most connected figure in the sport, opening conversations at the level where the commercial flows actually move.
Shaun White
Founding Partner, Athlete Network and Performance
Former elite athlete and performance leader with over 20 years experience with elite athletes in action sports. Brings the athlete, wellness, and human-performance dimension to the club. Connects the network to the elite competitive layer of the sport and to the wellness conversation increasingly central to how brands engage with padel.
James Metzger
Founding Partner, Strategy and Infrastructure
Co-founder of Padel Pipeline. Eighteen years building marketing and commercial strategy. Brings the strategy and infrastructure dimension to the club, having designed the Hybrid Engine and cross-vertical network model behind the firm, and the intelligence layer that powers The Brief.
Lee Atkins
Founding Partner, Membership and Operations
Over twenty years of commercial leadership across sport, lifestyle, and tech. Brings the membership and operations dimension to the club, having previously built a 250-member private members' network from a single launch event. Scales partnerships and the day-to-day across all four of the club's verticals.
Request access
Doors open in June.
The waitlist closes 30 May 2026. Submit an application and we will be in touch within 48 hours.