Bruno Pires (1981, Tinkoff-Saxo) will provide experience for the Swiss Roth-Skoda team that will make the jump to the Professional Continental category in 2016.

Pires comes to the Swiss team after four years with Tinkoff-Saxo in the WorldTour where he has been since 2012. Before that he rode for Leopard Trek (2011) and spent time in his hime country. The Portuguese has done two Giros and one Vuelta.

He is the 19th riders to join Roth-Skoda. The other signings are David Belda (Burgos BH), Grischa Janorschke (Team Vorarlberg), Martin Kohler (Drapac), Matthias Krizek (Team Felbermayr), Nicolas Baldo (Team Vorarlberg) and young riders Nico Brüngger (1988), Marco D'Urbano (1991, GM Cycling Team), Andrea Zordan (1992, Androni-Giocattoli), Nicola Toffali (1992), Valentin Baillifard (1993), Dimitri Bussard (1996) and Frank Pasche (1993).

From the continental team,  Andrea Pasqualon, Andrea Vaccher, Tomio Giacomo (1995), Lukas Jaun (1991), Dylan Page (1993), Colin Stüssi (1993) and Roland Thalmann (1993) will continue.