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New appointments in the Industry
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Industry veterans join Les Mills
Les Mills is beefing up its senior team with three major new appointments.
Keith Burnett, CEO, says this is an exciting time for Les Mills: “We’re in the process of building a team of fitness experts whose key purpose will be to help our club customers build better, more profitable businesses.”
Martin Franklin, formerly COO at Holmes Place, joins as customer experience director to oversee the development of the business, with a focus on supporting club customers. He says his primary focus will be to help clubs “unleash the power of our programmes.”
Former REPS registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch is joining Les Mills as instructor experience director, overseeing the instructor experience strategy and working with new head trainer Dave Kyle. Kyle says: “I’m looking forward to further developing the existing trainer talent we have through better team cohesion and engagement. There’s also a lot of new talent out there and we’re looking to find more ‘rockstar’ instructors to help our future growth.”
Les Mills has 90,000 instructors in 15,000 clubs around the world.
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Nasta takes on expanded COO role
Retention Management Europe has named Jon Nasta as its COO. In his new role, the former MD will oversee the company’s sales and marketing teams and manage the roll-out of new or expanded service offerings, as well as developing further strategic alliances and overseas growth.
Since joining the company in 2008, Nasta has overseen triple digit growth and has been instrumental in spearheading many new initiatives and enhancements.
“Jon’s passion, experience and work ethic have always been an asset for us,” says the company’s CEO and founder Richard Ekstrom. “His new, expanded role as COO will be a positive influence for Retention Management, our alliances and our client base.”
Retention Management helps fitness centres increase retention, ancillary revenues, sales and profitability. The company offers email marketing and social media among its services.
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DC Leisure grows business development team
DC Leisure has bolstered its business development team with the appointment of three new managers.
Kamran Tirmizey, Damian Watts and Jamie Woods, all former DC Leisure contract managers, joined the team in April and will work alongside the two current business development managers. They will be supported by the newly appointed business development co-ordinator, Victoria O’Neill, who joins the company with extensive third sector experience.
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