“I am confident I can use my experience at the RYA to bring value to BSS. This experience included dealing with membership development, governance structure, commercial and funding issues. I am a passionate skier and I am looking forward to combining this passion with my commercial experience to the benefit of British Ski and Snowboard.”
Ex-professional skier and investment professional Anna Lees-Jones has already built up a portfolio of non-executive roles after a twenty year career in asset management with firms like Dresdner, M&G and Investec. Anna was previously a member of the British Children’s Ski Team as well as being BASI qualified. She still loves skiing, particularly fresh powder in Flaine with her three children.
Having just finished a 10-year term as Chair of Great Britain Hockey, Richard Leman brings top-class experience from the sporting arena to BSS as well as experience of building businesses.
Richard set up his first business in 1993 and has since founded and chaired several businesses, mainly in the Human Resource and Recruitment sectors. In addition he has set up a Charity at East Grinstead Sports Club where he has raised over £4m to help develop the multi-sport community hub. Richard also played hockey at two Olympic games, winning a Bronze medal at Los Angeles in 1984 and a Gold medal at Seoul in 1988. He is now a keen skier who has passed the passion onto his children.
“I am looking forward to working with British Ski and Snowboard as an Independent Director and trying to make a different to British snowsports at this exciting time.”
Hunt will lead the performance strategy for British Ski and Snowboard across all disciplines; Alpine, Cross Country, Freestyle Skiing, Park & Pipe, Ski & Snowboard Cross, Ski Jumping, Speed Skiing and Telemark. He will provide leadership in all aspects of the athlete support programmes that are put in place.
Wayne is a scientist and entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for snowsport. He has held many academic appointments, including twenty years as Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Glasgow, and is now an Honorary Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He also worked in business management in the biotechnology industry in the U.K., Canada and Sweden, and as an entrepreneur has co-founded a series of small companies in the area of healthy aging and therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Dave Edwards is Chief Executive of British Ski and Snowboard and has worked for the organisation since helping to create it in February 2010.
Prior to that he was in an interim role with Llanelli Scarlets after a career in Business and Commerce including twelve years with technology and business processing specialist Marlborough Stirling and Vertex Data Sciences.
Mark Lund has almost thirty years of experience in the financial services sector and has operated at Director/CEO level for the last fifteen years in both plc and private businesses in the UK and internationally. He is the former CEO of St James's Place plc and he also had a spell on secondment as the CEO of Virgin Direct and prior to this he was a Director of Henderson Investors plc.
He is now building a career as an independent director. In early 2012 he was appointed by the Cabinet Office to Chair the employee benefit trust at a new mutual business created by the Government, My CSP Ltd. He also sits on the main board of My CSP which administers pensions and benefits for more than 1.5mn civil servants.
Rory was, until recently, Chief Executive of Coutts, the wealth management arm of RBS Group. This business had operations in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the Middle East and Switzerland. Prior to that he was the Chairman and Chief Executive of UBS Asia Pacific, responsible for the Investment Bank, Wealth management and Asset management in that region. He was also Chairman of Global Investment Banking.
Rory was instrumental in helping BSS in its first funding venture in early 2010 and has now offered his time, energy and passion for snowsports to help the organisation improve the programmes and support it offers to British snowsport athletes.
Colin has been involved in the development and organisation of British Snowboarding for many years. He was invited to join the committee of the British Snowboard Association (BSA) in 2003, looking to help fund riders trying to qualify for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
In 2005, he assisted with the UK Sport modernisation programme with the merging of BSA into SnowsportGB and helped set up the British Snowboard Executive to represent snowboarding within the national governing body. Colin was part of the working group to establish the British Ski and Snowboard Constitution when the new organisation was founded in 2010, and in 2011 he became Snowboard Director on the Board of BSS.
Colin regularly attends events in support of British riders and has been to three Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Vancouver and most recently Sochi. He has helped out at every Brits Championships since 2003 and worked at all London Freeze Big Air competitions since the inaugural event in 2008. In 2015, he entered as a Masters competitor in the Brits Half Pipe event and claimed the prestigious wooden spoon for his 4th place in this fiercely contested category.
British ski and snowboard ltd
British Ski and Snowboard (BSS) is the National Governing Body for Skiing and Snowboarding in the United Kingdom. Recognised by the International Ski Federation (FIS) and by the British Olympic Association (BOA), we manage the elite British teams and the development pathway for those elite teams.
We select, manage and lead British teams to international events, promote participation in FIS disciplines, and provide opportunities for our athletes to achieve their full potential as individuals and as a team. Our long-term vision is to become one of the world’s top five skiing and snowboarding nations by 2030, and have a clear strategy which works towards Great Britain challenging for world class and Olympic medals - not only in the Park and Pipe disciplines, where they are already one of the leading nations - but in all skiing and snowboarding disciplines.