2TheBarn is driven by Passion, Experience and Knowledge

Tara Glen

Director & Founder

Tara is an entrepreneur who keeps balance in her life though her love and involvement with horses – she is both an owner of event horses & competes herself up to 2* level, as well as in affiliated Show Jumping & Dressage competitions. Her son is a junior polo player and member of the pony club. On rare days off she enjoys both National Hunt & flat racing.

Tara started riding before she could walk and as a teenager rode at the UK Pony Club Championships, British Universities Championships and evented at JOIT level. Following four years reading Engineering at Oxford University, she hung up her riding boots and took up a career in Investment Banking before going on to work in the Engineering Industry.

It is only in the last few years that Tara has had more time to devote to her passion for horses. It was on her re-entry into equestrian sport that she was surprised to find that an online, multi-functional equestrian platform did not exist. As a result of her frustration she decided to design, develop & fund 2TheBarn to provide a much needed service in the equestrian world. Tara is relishing the pan industry support for 2TheBarn’s development and growth.

William Fox-Pitt

Olympic Three Day
Event Rider & Founder

William was the first British rider to become eventing’s World No 1, a distinction he achieved in 2002, 2009, 2010 and again in 2014. He has represented his country consistently over the past 20+ years, winning team Silver at the 2012 London Olympics, team Silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics, team Bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, team Silver and Individual Bronze at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, Individual Bronze at the 2013 European Championships in Malmo, team Gold and Individual Silver at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, team Silver at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, and team Bronze at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez. He has won seven team Gold medals at the European Championships and has been the British No 1 eleven times.

He is the only rider to have won five out of the six CCI****’s worldwide having won Burghley (1994, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Badminton (2004 & 2015), Luhmuhlen (2008), Rolex Kentucky (2010, 2012, 2014) and Pau (2011, 2013). He has won the HSBC FEI Classics, a series linking the top six Three-Day Events in the world, four times (2008, 2010, 2012 and again in 2014) and finished second in 2011.

In 2011 William became the first rider to win a record six Burghley titles (on six different horses) and became one of the first riders to ever win a CCI*, CCI** and CCI*** at the same event on the same day - a feat achieved at Tattersalls, Ireland.

William has won an unprecedented 14 CCI****'s and 60 CCI three-day events. His achievements in the sport make him one of the most successful British event riders of all time.

Aaron Switzer

Chief Technology Officer

Aaron has over 20 years of professional experience in the tech industry, primarily in web-based software development. From high-volume financial transactions at Givex Corp, to enterprise mobile device management at Blackberry, Aaron has spent the majority of his career in extremely secure, mission critical environments. Code that he has written, and managed the development of, is running on servers in such places as the Pentagon and the White House.

Aaron's first exposure to "social networking" was as a youngster dialing into local Bulletin Board Systems with his trusty 2400 baud modem. Over the years he has seen the transformative power of technology to bring people together and to lift them up, experiencing this first hand while volunteering at the TD Computer Learning Center teaching under-privileged children basic computer skills. For Aaron, 2Thebarn represents a tremendous opportunity to pioneer new forms of community building and to empower the pursuit of lifelong ambitions.