Meet our amazing team.
We are a group of passionate and creative individuals who want to have fun, explore and share the delight that our trips to exotic places generate.
Our desire to share with you this amazing experience emerges from many years of enthusiasm and work behind the scenes in the WRC (1987-1991) and FIA Cross-Country Rally (13 participations in the “Dakar” and World Championships in 1999, 2000 and 2001) as team owners, team managers and drivers.
Jorge Murano
Founder TGD
Attracted from a very young age by travels and rallies, he start working at the Lancia/Martini. Several years of experience lead them to the creation of the “Rally raid” team, which will participate in 13 Paris-Dakar and 3 world championships. Sport racing becomes now into the gentleman driver, dream that enables non-professionals drivers experience the “Dakar” feel and enthusiasm but without the rush of the racing sport, mixing life experiences with the pleasure of driving a race car in every possible landscape around the world. Nowadays TheGentleman Driver already carried out more than 20 expeditions in 3 continents and planning for more, much more… MORE About jorge
Mauro Fasano
People Manager
He was Jorge´s partner at Rally Raid team. Mauro has 2 dakar on his back. He then moves to the corporate world in communication technology industries, and now he decided to rejoin efforts with Jorge to create and live their young passion for rallies and free rides of past times.
Mike Christiansen
Guide, Photographer
Mike has been with TGD for many years and multiple tours. Acting as lead guide as well as drone pilot and photographer. When not driving he can usually be found flying competitively in paragliding events around the globe.
Niccolo Bruna
Communication Manager
Isan internationally awarded filmmaker from Italy,member of the Italian Academy of Motion PictureArts. He made movies, reportages anddocumentaries in more then 35 countries,recounting the Syrian migration crisis, Ebolaepidemic in Sierra Leone, the public health issueof asbestos in Brazil and India, women’s conditionin Ethiopia and human trafficking in Nigeria. Heis a sport and music fanatic. Traveling is in itsmost intimate nature.