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This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Fitness space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Simon Hancock
Investor and Director of Amplify Life
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About Amplify Life: Amplify Life is an app that provides coaching for fitness and wellbeing.
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Philippa Jayanathan
Director Of Operations – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust of National Health Service
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About National Health Service: NHS is the UK’s biggest health website which employs people with a wide range of skills from software development to journalism.
Thiago Monteiro
Director of Growth of Peak
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About Peak: Peak’s mission is to help the world spend their time better using tools and technique borrowed from education, neuroscience and gaming.
Nikunj Sondagar
Co-Founder & Non Executive Director of Brushlink
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About AUXO, Brushlink, Healthcare Angels Network, Medicalsupply, Tooth Wise, Wise360: Brushlink is a health and wellness company that specializes in the fields of oral care and dental insurance markets.
Connor Minney
Co-founder and Director of Operations of Grndhouse
Connor Minney Co-founder and Director of Operations at Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Louis Rennocks
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grndhouse
Louis Rennocks is the Co-founder and managing director of Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Victoria Ellison
Marketing Director, UK of Equinox Fitness
With over 15 years’ experience in the wellness industry, Vicky Ellison is Marketing Director for global lifestyle leaders Equinox in the UK and a columnist for Well To Do Global and Lucas Hugh. Her career with Equinox has seen her launch and grow new markets for the brand, including London and Vancouver. Prior to this she worked with brands including Third Space, Matt Roberts, Bliss and Elemis. She shares her marketing expertise in a monthly column for Well To Do. Equinox operates 94 upscale, full-service clubs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Houston, and Washington, DC, as well as international locations in London, Toronto, and Vancouver. The company offers an integrated selection of Equinox-branded programmess, services and products, including strength and cardio training, studio classes, personal training, spa services and products, apparel and food/juice bars. Launching in 2019, Equinox Hotels will cater exclusively to the high-performance traveller to serve as the ultimate hotel destination with a 360-degree lifestyle experience. For more than 25 years, Equinox has consistently offered bespoke experiences and unparalleled services to consumers, developing a lifestyle brand that represents service, value, quality, expertise, innovation, attention to detail, market leadership and results.
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About Equinox Fitness: Equinox Fitness is an American luxury fitness company with its national headquarters in New York.
Pamela Scarborough
Co-Founder & Clinical Director of Pactster
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About Pactster: Pactster is a social exercise platform for people with specific health conditions.
Jeremy McKeown
Non-Executive Director of HealthUnlocked
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About HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is a social network for health.
Virendra Rajput
Director of Earthmiles
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About Earthmiles: Track and be rewarded for your healthy and fit activities. Get exclusive deals on the widest range of fitness products.
Rebecca Terrell
Founder and Managing Director of Tribeca Studios
Rebecca Terrell is the founder and managing director of Tribeca Studios.
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About Tribeca Studios: Tribeca Studios is a boutique fitness club that operates as a pay-as-you train studio.
Amit Patel
Director of New Ventures of Bupa
Amit Patel serves as the director of New Ventures at Bupa. He is an intrapreneur responsible for incubating, testing and scaling innovative and compelling customer propositions. He is a start-up advisor and a tech enthusiast with keen interest in exponential technologies (e.g. Blockchain / DLT, ML / AI etc) and their application in healthcare and insurance. Previously, Amit has held several Senior Roles at Bupa including Strategy & M&A Director for Bupa UK. Prior to Bupa, he worked as a Strategy Consultant at LEK – a top tier Strategy Consulting firm – advising Fortune 500 companies and private equity investors on growth strategy and M&A. Amit started his career in Medicine and trained as a General Surgeon working in the NHS.
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About Bupa: Bupa is an international healthcare group, serving over 22 million customers in over 190 countries.
Dan Zelezinski
Director of Health Partnerships of Biovotion
Dan has recently taken up the role of Director of Health Partnerships for Biovotion. A leading medical grade, wearable technology company headquartered in Zurich. Prior to this, he has an academic background in physiology and applied this in the health and high performance domain, operating for the past 15 years as a consultant within the Goldman Sachs Wellness & Leadership Programmes. His expertise lies in the application of scientific principles to enhance mind and body interconnectedness, to distil and leverage insights afforded by cutting edge sensing technology and ultimately, to drive sustainable high performance. On a personal level, he has been involved in competitive sports most of his life and continues to actively seek opportunities to push limits. He has completed Ironman events, climbed Himalayan peaks, competed in the ACR, billed as the “toughest ski race in the world” – a 180km X Country ski race in the Arctic Circle and has rowed across the Mediterranean, raising $1m for the HPV foundation. He still claims that the hardest challenge is bed and bath time duties for his 4 young children!
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About Biovotion, Goldman Sachs: Biovotion AG is a digital health company in the field of sophisticated, medical-grade, wearable health monitoring solutions.
Anna King
Commercial Director of Health Innovation Network
Anna is the Commercial Director of the Health Innovation Network, the South London Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and founder partner of DigitalHealth.London. Anna has been instrumental in establishing the Health Innovation Network at the forefront of the spread and adoption of innovation in the NHS. She has lead on the development of relationships between the Network and industry and the development of evidence – based interventions to improve the health and care for Londoners. She designed and developed the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator Programme and is currently building engagement of the NHS and industry in that programme. Prior to joining the Health Innovation Network, Anna held a number of senior regional commercial and improvement riles in the NHS. Anna qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and spent 13 years working there, primarily providing corporate finance advice to a wide range of health and social care clients, including GSK, Roche and Aventis.
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About Health Innovation Network: he Health Innovation Network is the Academic Health Science Network (#AHSN) for south London.
Sean Grant
Sales Director of Premier Global
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About Premier Global: Premier Global provides digital and virtual fitness education, personal trainer options, nutrition courses and training services.
Greg Whyte
Former Olympian & Director of Performance of Centre for Health and Human Performance
Greg Whyte Former Olympian & Director of Performance •Two-time Olympian • Professor of Sport Science, Liverpool John Moores University • Published over 200 peer reviewed papers and 8 books in the area of sport, exercise science and medicine • Performance Director, Centre for Health and Human Performance • Helped to raise over £35 million for Comic Relief and Sport Relief • Author of Amazon Bestseller: Achieve the Impossible • Presenter on ITV’s Eternal Glory • Chair of UK Active Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board • Principal investigator for WADA A physical activity expert and world-renowned sports scientist, Professor Greg Whyte OBE is an Olympian in modern pentathlon and a European and World Championship medalist. Well-known for his involvement in Comic Relief, assisting various celebrities in challenge events, Greg recently supported Jo Brand on her ‘Hell of a Walk’ from Hull to Liverpool and Radio 1’s Greg James on his 5 triathlons in 5 cities in 5 days. As a result of his work, Greg has helped to raise over £35 million for charity. Greg is an expert in the field of sports and exercise science. Graduating from Brunel University, he furthered his studies with an MSc in human performance in the USA and completed his PhD at St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London. Greg is currently a Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University and Director of Performance at the Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) on Harley Street in London. Greg’s former roles include Director of Research for the British Olympic Association and Director of Science and Research for the English Institute of Sport. Greg is the preeminent authority on Exercise Physiology and Sports and Exercise Performance in the UK. An internationally recognised expert in the field, Greg has extensive professional experience assessing, treating and improving the performance of patients, sporting enthusiasts and athletes ranging from cancer sufferers to celebrities attempting their first mountain summit to Gold medal seeking Olympians. Since 2006, Greg has applied his sports science work to assist various celebrities in completing some of the toughest challenges. Greg has trained, motivated and successfully coached 23 Sport and Comic Relief Challenges including: the comedian David Walliams to swim across the English Channel the Gibraltar Straits and the length of the Thames; James Cracknell to run, cycle and swim to Africa; a team of 9 celebrities including Cheryl Cole, Chris Moyles and Gary Barlow to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro; Eddie Izzard to run a remarkable 43 marathons in 50 days; Christine Bleakley to waterski across the English Channel; Dermot O’Leary, Olly Murrs and others to cross the driest desert in Africa; John Bishop to complete ‘Bishops Week of Hell’ that involved John cycle, row and run from Paris to London; and Davina McCall in her ‘Beyond Breaking Point’ 506 mile ultra-triathlon. In 2014 Greg was awarded an OBE for his services to Sport, Sport Science & Charity, and was voted as one of the Top 10 Science Communicators in the UK by the British Science Council.
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About Centre for Health and Human Performance: CHHP first institute of its kind to combine a team of medical specialists with leading experts in integrated health and human performance.
Andraz Ogorevc
Founder, CEO & Director of iHELP World
Andraz Ogorevc is Founder & CEO at iHELP World.
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About iHELP World: An online platform that provides immediate assistance by connecting users in any type of emergency.
Pip Black
Co-founder & Director of Frame
Pip Black is Co-founder and Director at Frame.
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About Frame: It was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore.
Joan Murphy
Director of Frame
Joan is a hardcore super Kiwi, with more energy than the Duracell Bunny. Her classes are hard, you’ll leave exhausted but ALWAYS in a FANTASTIC mood. She borders on the ridiculous, so look out for sequins and animal print and flouro… and remember, that the countdown always gets you through, no matter how much pain you may think you’re in! Joan has previously represented New Zealand in a number of random sports, from Pole Vault to Track Cycling… and if it’s good enough for NZ, it’s got to be good enough for us.
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About Frame: It was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore.
Matt Boyles
Director of Sales and Marketing & CMO of Wireless Fitness
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About Wireless Fitness: The Wireless Fitness is an app that portable exercise studio in your phone
Matt Boyles
Director of Sales and Marketing & CMO of Wireless Fitness
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About Wireless Fitness: The Wireless Fitness is an app that portable exercise studio in your phone
Dominic Thorpe
Founder and Managing Director- Acting CEO and in charge of fundraising, strategy, and development of Wireless Fitness
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About Wireless Fitness: The Wireless Fitness is an app that portable exercise studio in your phone
Steve Miller
Managing Director of Insulin Angel
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About Insulin Angel: Insulin Angel is World smartest medication tracker.
