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Anabel has spent most of her career working in Marketing and PR within the world of commercial sport. She has run her own sports marketing agency and handled clients such as adidas, TaylorMade Golf and the successful Wales Ryder Cup Bid. Her last role, before taking a career break to spend time with her children, was as European Brand Communications Director at TaylorMade adidas Maxfli.

Currently studying for an English and Creative Writing degree at Winchester University, Anabel is also a Governor at Millfield School.

Having played competitive squash and tennis, Anabel now enjoys trekking, running and playing golf and polo. She is in training for the 2007 Flora London Marathon.

Edmund Whelan

Edmund is a barrister by profession and has been Head of Legal and Government Affairs at the Royal Yachting Association since 1981. His work at the RYA as Company Secretary for 25 years has given him a unique insight into the challenges faced by a major governing body of sport operating in an increasingly regulated and demanding environment. His work in Government Affairs, fighting to keep the regulators at bay both in the UK and at Brussels, has helped to ensure that this country remains one of the least regulated and most “yacht friendly” administrations in the developed world.

Edmund has represented the RYA on the Water Recreation Division since 1981, and has in the past been Deputy Chairmen and Chairman, of that division, as well as a board member of CCPR Enterprises and the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel. Edmund has been elected to the CCPR Board for a two year term from July 2006.

Away from the office his main interest is in offshore cruising and racing, with over 50,000 sea miles under his keel. He also supports his sons’ and daughter’s various interests in show jumping, dressage, windsurfing, and motor racing, and is looking forward to the next Irish rugby grand slam.

Richard Yule
Richard Yule graduated BEd Hons in Physical Education from Strathclyde University and a Diploma in French Language, Sorbonne, Paris. He has taught and lectured in PE and worked in sports development roles in the City of Glasgow and Scottish Sports Council. Eight times Scottish Table Tennis Champion he has travelled the world representing Scotland at World, European and Commonwealth Championships (a record 285 times). A former National Coach in Scotland and Ireland he has been Chief Executive of English Table Tennis Association since 1995.

Richard was elected to the CCPR Board for a 2 year term in 2005.

Pauline HarrisonPauline was previously the Chief Executive of England Netball. She has attended the Games and Sports Divisional meetings of CCPR since 1999 and attended the CCPR conference as a representative from the Lawn Tennis Association where she was the Coaching Officer.

Pauline has played both tennis and netball over the years up to County level and contributes to the development of Coach Education Programmes throughout the world. Pauline has also taught physical education in various schools. She is a member of the Government Coaching Task Force since it commenced in 2000, and is currently a Governing Body representative on the DCMS Project Board to oversee delivery of the recommendations.

Pauline is an External Examiner for the University of Wales and Cardiff for the MA Sports Development and Coaching. Paulines's involvement with the UK Sport Modernisation Programme is leading the modernisation work for netball including a review of Corporate Governance.

Pauline was elected onto the CCPR Board of Directors in 2003.

Penny Spink MBEAs Chair of the Federation of South West Sports Organisations, Penny has been a representative of the CCPR Regional Federations Committee since 1997. (Deputy Chair 1999 - 2006). Since the formation of the South West Regional Sports Board in 1999 she has directly linked the regional agenda to the national agenda set by the CCPR.

Penny was an active fencer at county and regional level and has both coached and refereed the sport. She has served on County and Regional Committees of the AFA, now British Fencing, and has been a Board Director since 1990. Penny also chairs the English Fencing union, on which all English Regions are represented, and where the Regionalisation issue is foremost on the agenda. Penny is also a Trustee, Governor and assessor for Sports Aid South West.

Penny was elected to the Board in 2002.

Brian StocksBrian is President of British Gymnastics. He is former member of the Men's Technical Committee and Chair of the General Gymanastics and is a nationally qualified judge and high level coach.

Brian is a qualified teacher obtaining a Teacher's Certificate from Carnegie College, and an Advanced Diploma and Master of the Arts Degree specialising in bio-mechanics and gymnastics. He was the Principle Development Officer for sport in Liverpool. In 1990, Brian moved to work at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham as Director of Sport and has worked on many International and World Events including the World and European Gymnastics Championships at the National Exhibition Centre.

Brian is currently employed as Chief Operating Officer for the World Indoor Championships athletics (seconded from Head of International Sports and Major Events for the City of Birmingham).

For 35 years, Brian has been involved in gymnastics and has a wealth of expertise in sales, marketing and negotiation and is strongly committed to modernising the sport. Brian is conversant with government policy and acts as advisor to the Ministry of Sport and also National Governing Body of Sport Politics. Brian is also a member of the National Olympic Committee.

Brian represents both the Movement and Dance and Games and Sports Divisions for British Gymnastics and was elected to the CCPR Board of Directors on 15 July 2003.

Howard Wells

Howard Wells has spent 34 years in sports and recreation management working at the local, national and international levels. He developed a strong relationship with the governing bodies of sport whilst as Deputy Director of Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre between 1975 and 1981. He then moved to Hong Kong firstly as Operations Manager and then as Chief Executive of its National Sports Institute and then in 1989 became the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Sports Development Board. He returned to UK in 1996 as the first CEO of UK Sport and then had spells as Chief Executive of both Watford and Ipswich Town Football Clubs. Howard was a senior coach of the Football Association and played and coached at Wycombe Wanderers FC in their non-League days. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Saudi-UK governments’ memorandum of understanding on sports development and was a member of the FA’s 2006 World Cup Bid for two years from 1996. He is currently Chief Executive of the Irish Football Association and a Director of Sportsgate Ltd.

Howard was elected to the CCPR Board in 2000 and was made Chair in 2001 - 2005.

Di Ellis CBE FRSA MRSH, Deputy Chair

Di Ellis is currently Chairman of the Amateur Rowing Association a position she has held since 1989. She is the rowing representative on the National Olympic Committee, a member of the Executive Committee, a Trustee of the British Olympic Medical Trust and represents the BOA on the Confederation of British Sport.

Di rowed for Great Britain and coxed for England, held the position of GB Team Manager, is an active umpire and was the first woman Steward of Henley Royal Regatta.

Di has been a Director and Honorary Member since 2000 she represents the CCPR as a Board Member of the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel and Skills Active. Di was elected Deputy Chairman of the CCPR on 19th July 2005.

Brigid Simmonds OBE, Chair

Brigid Simmonds is Chief Executive of the umbrella organisation Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL), which represents over 100 private sector commercial companies in the sports and leisure industry. Members of BISL listed on the London Stock Exchange have a combined market capitalisation in excess of £40 billion. BISL is active in talking to Government about liquor licensing law reform; gambling law reform; land-use planning and property; employment law; sport and public/private sector partnerships.

Brigid is the immediate past Chairman of the Tourism Alliance, a post she held from January 2005 to July 2006; which represents 46 different Trade Organisation and 200,000 businesses. In July 2005, she became Chairman of the CCPR, the umbrella organisation for 270 Governing Bodies of Sport and Voluntary Sports Organisations. She is a non executive Director of Quintus Public Affairs.

Brigid has completed a six year term on the main board of Sport England, where she was Chairman of Phoenix Sport in Sheffield and Caversham Lakes Trust. She was a former chair of the Sport England Lottery Awards Panel. She was previously a non-executive Director of Leicester City Football Club Plc and is the author of ‘Developing Partnerships in Sport and Leisure: A Practical Guide’, published by Longman in 1994.

Brigid Simmonds is married with three children and lives in London. She ran the London Marathon in 1998 and 2005 and enjoys running, tennis and music.

Brigid was awarded an OBE for Services to Sport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of June 2006. In 2007 she won the Shine Industry Expert Award for Women’s Achievements in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality.

Mike Reynolds is the Director of the Institute of Sports Sponsorship (ISS) and of Sportsmatch, the government`s business sponsorship incentive scheme for grass roots sport.

A thirty year career in marketing and public relations led Mike to the role of Executive Director-Public Affairs for Courage Group. For Courage he was responsible for all aspects of corporate and brand communications, including media, financial and parliamentary relations. He also had overall responsibility for sponsorship development for brands such as Courage, Foster`s and John Smith`s and negotiated and managed sponsorships in a wide range of sports including football, rugby, cricket, horse-racing, snooker and Formula One. He has also headed his own communications consultancy.

Mike is a former Chairman of the ISS which he helped to found and he has written and lectured extensively on sponsorship in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He became Director of ISS and of Sportsmatch in 1998.

Mike has had an involvement with CCPR for more than twenty years. He has advised many organisations on sports marketing and sponsorship. He is a panel member of the Sports Marketing Research Trust and on the Board of the Sports Disputes Resolution Panel.

Mike was made an Appointed Director in October 2006.

Tim Lamb, Chief Executive and Director

Prior to his appointment on 1 August 2005, Tim was the Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for eight years between 1997 and 2004, during which time, under his leadership, the sport of cricket witnessed a period of unprecedented reform and modernisation.

Tim played professional first class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1974 and 1977, and for Northamptonshire CCC from 1978 to 1983, before moving into sports administration. He was appointed General Manager of Middlesex CCC from 1984 to 1988 and subsequently Cricket Secretary, later Deputy Chief Executive, of the Test and County Cricket Board from 1988 to 1996.