ROUNDERS ENGLAND - Key Persons
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Elected Board Member and Board Welfare & Safety Officer
- Regional Security Analyst for the UKI for a Global Logistics
Ali is the Regional Security Analyst for the UKI for a Global Logistics company. Her career background gives her a strong tactical and strategic insight to address threat, risk and harm; and her analytical foresight and attention to detail have led her to focus on the continuous improvement, development and success of the two Rounders Clubs that she is involved with.
Ali has played Rounders for nearly 12 years, and is a Level 1 Coach. She has been Club Chair at Ossett Rounders Club in West Yorkshire since 2014, and has just launched the new Rodley Rounders Club in Leeds, this season. Ali strives to encourage Women to find their place in the game, and to help them be the best that they can be. Her hobby is truly her passion.
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Elected Board Member
- National Performance Coach
Brett has ri ch background across a range of sectors. He is the owner of a medical and training organisation. A natural energy and passion to build sustainable communities with charity and consultancy work. He is a national trustee for the Wooden Spoon Charity and Educators Trust. He has led in governance roles at national and regional level and creating projects to support women and girls development and social and physical activity in deprivation areas.
Brett is national performance coach and has been involved across a range of sports NGBs, writing coach education courses and delivering in their programmes.
Occupation: Secondary school PE teacher/ trampolining/ gymnastic coach/ tutor
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Assistant Principal
- Independent Board Member
- Member of the Volunteer Board
Dana is an Assistant Principal leading across Personal Development and student experiences in a cross-phase Academy in Sheffield. Dana has experienced sport at International level. In 2000 she became the first Muslim and Arab woman to compete for England Internationally and in 2008 was the first Hijabi Muslim Woman to qualify to teach PE in England. Dana played Rounders for England 67 times. She presently plays in the Sherwood League and has been part of the talent development work within rounders over the past 12 months.
In 2012, Dana carried the Olympic Torch. She has extensive media experience, talking and writing about change, authenticity and visibility internationally. Alongside being a trustee with Chance to Shine where she offers educational and safeguarding insight, Dana is an Ambassador for Sporting Heritage, Rotherham's Children's Capital of culture bid and was on the steering group alongside being a present Ambassador for the successful UK bid to become the next host secretariat of the International Working Group on Women and Sport.
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- Director of Business Operations
David leads on the development, implementation and monitoring of our corporate services and back-office functions including finance, IT, HR, data protection, anti-doping and general systems & procedures. In addition, David applies and maintains robust governance and compliance controls over our daily business functions supported by a comprehensive library of corporate policies. Business risk is another area of David's accountabilities ensuring the organisation operates and manages risk to agreed levels for our business operations. David also manages the organisation's corporate relationships and is a key player in maintaining and developing commercial business opportunities.
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Senior Independent Director
Chair of Marketing & Commercial Sub Committee
An expert in sports, travel, and finance industries, Farhad joins with over 20 years of experience, including expertise in digital strategy, search and social media marketing, ecommerce, mobile commerce and growth analytics. Farhad is currently Managing Director at digital marketing agency, AccuraCast. Prior to AccuraCast, Farhad worked with 3Com, Tata Group, Household Financial Services, and Equisys.
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Elected Vice Chair
Chair of Development & Engagement Sub Committee
Georgina is a self-employed PhD graduate with many years' experience of working in the equestrian sector, in research and insight as well as event management, including Olympic and Paralympic Games. She has extensive knowledge of the Further and Higher Education sector, gained through roles in land-based colleges and universities, in addition to working for an exam board.
Georgina is involved locally in rounders, as a player, umpire and coach, and believes rounders is an incredibly powerful sport, bringing together all kinds of people and enhancing their lives and communities.
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- Talent Event Co - Ordinator
Janet's role will be responsible for the co-ordination of all aspects of Rounders England Talent events. She will deliver high quality performance events, raising the professional standards across Rounders England.
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Marketing & Communications Manager
Julia is responsible for the marketing, press and commercial activities in Rounders England. Her role is to develop strategies to promote the Rounders brand and products and to develop commercial opportunities with external organisations.
Karen will lead the delivery of growth, participation, membership and engagement programmes, products and related targets. As a member of the Senior Management Team, Karen will contribute significantly to the development of organisational culture, the Rounders community, the team and the achievement of Rounders England's strategy. Stakeholder engagement and partnership working will also be a key part of Karen's role.
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- Chairman of the Volunteer Board
- Is Director of Intelligent Health
Chair of Nominations & Remunerations Sub Committee
Katherine Knight is Director of Intelligent Health whose mission is to build active communities. She combines a love of being active with over 20 years' experience in sports marketing and PR. She worked at The Football Association in Marketing and Communications for women's football helping it become the top female sport in England. She was instrumental in creating ‘Game Changer', The Football Association's 5-year strategic plan for women's football following the 2012 Olympics.
Katherine has used her experience to make Intelligent Health a world leader in mass participation activity programmes transforming health across a community. Their award-winning Beat the Street programme has reached almost one million participants.
Katherine is also a parent governor of a secondary school, loves all sport, entertaining and even finds time for a bit of carpentry!
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
Leanne will administer every aspect of the organisations finance. Governed by the Director of Business Operations she is expected to deliver the monthly finance requirements within a digitised/ paperless process.
Lucy will work in partnership with the whole staff team to ensure the delivery of a first-class service of operational and administrative support, that maximises the efficiency and productivity of the organisation overall.
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- Digital Insight and Research Officer
Megan is responsible for supporting the senior management team to identify, evaluate and deliver the successful achievement of operational outcomes and objectives through research, analysis, evaluation, application and presentation of digital insight.
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- CEO & Board Safeguarding Officer )
Natalie started her career in Sports Development in 1999 working for the Birmingham Football Association where she combined her passion for playing the game with developing Girls and Women's football in the early stages of its growth.
In 2010 she left her position as Football Development Manager to work for British Cycling. Natalie was the brainchild behind British Cycling's successful Breeze programme which saw thousands of women get into cycling through a thriving volunteer network. In 2015 Natalie moved onto British Triathlon as Director of Development. Here Natalie led the development team through a successful period of change for GO TRI, the Women in Triathlon agenda and was successful at securing public investment through Sport England by ensuring the organisation continued to deliver against government outcomes for Sport and Physical Activity.
Natalie is passionate about making sport accessible and truly believes in how sport can change lives. She enjoys being active and spends most of her free time chasing her two young sons around the park or BMX track!
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- Director of Marketing & Communications
Natalie's role is to develop, drive, and support the implementation of the Marketing and Communications plan to help Rounders England achieve its strategic vision, Rounders: Reconnected, as well as contribute significantly to the development of organisational culture, our community, team, and the achievement of our strategy.
Nick will spearhead Rounders England's efforts in creating new growth and participation opportunities. At the forefront he will develop activities with partners and establish leagues within designated areas, ensuring these activities are sustainable.
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- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Independent Board Member - Treasurer ) Chair of Audit, Operations & Governance Sub Committee
As Engagement Manager, Rachael works with existing leagues and teams leading them through 4 engagement stages; encompassing awareness, conversation, transaction and partnership. Education - Working with the universities currently engaged in the Rounders Tour and schools within the Level 3 School Games to understand their relationship with Rounders.
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- Member of the Life Members & Vice Presidents Team
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- Workforce Manager & Lead Safeguarding Officer ( Part Time )
Si n develops and delivers the Rounders England coaching and officiating education programme and coaching pathway. She is responsible for organising courses to help increase the leadership, coaching and umpiring workforce, preparing resources to accompany the coaching courses, providing support for coaches, umpires, volunteers and coach educators and helping to implement new coaching initiatives.
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- Independent Board Member
- Member of the Volunteer Board
- Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting
A Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, Zoe joins with over 9 years of experience in advising CEOs and CIOs on how to best use technology and digital tools to meet their business outcomes. Zoe currently leads Deloitte's Digital Transformation proposition in the sports sector. She has spent the last 18 months working with a number of leading sports clubs and governing bodies to help them define and implement their digital strategies.