Martin McPhee Access Sport Chairman Expand Martin is currently a board member of a number of global organisations and an Operating Partner within a major global Private Equity company. Martin is a former Managing Partner at Accenture and Senior Vice President at Cisco, where he was responsible for running, building and transforming businesses of up to 15,000 people. Martin has 5 children ranging from 11 to 28, so recognises the importance that sports have in the development of his own children, he is a keen golfer and coaches his local U15 football team.Martin has been a trustee of Access Sport since 2016 and in 2019 took on the role of Chair of our Income Generation Committee. Martin McPhee, Linkedin
David Ascott Expand David is a Chartered Accountant and MBA with over 30 years City experience in Private Equity and Corporate Finance. He was a Partner at Grant Thornton for almost 20 years where he was responsible for both leading over 50 Corporate deals and developing the talent and performance of the team. David also has extensive experience as a NED in Senior financial and governance roles in the Private Equity and Professional services environment. David is passionate about Sport and particularly the benefits it can bring to the lives of young people. He is the Treasurer Trustee for Access Sport and currently serves as a NED on the Board of Skateboard GB and a charity which helps refugees in Greece.
John Baker Expand Retired solicitor, former Senior Executive and General Counsel. John has been named one of the top 25 General Counsel in Canada and has extensive experience working internationally and particularly in the UK, US, and Canada. He has been engaged both in public and private sectors and has worked in law firms and corporations in the UK and Canada in the aviation, telecommunications and real estate sectors. John Baker, Linkedin
Mark Burgess Expand Mark was Chief Investment Officer, EMEA and Deputy Global CIO at Columbia Threadneedle, a position he held for 9 years. Prior to this, Mark was Head of Equities at Legal and General Investment Management and held senior roles at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management and Deutsche Asset Management. He gained a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Keele University and is an associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. He is currently taking a career break ahead of assessing his next steps. Mark joined Access Sport as a trustee in 2014 and is passionate about creating positive opportunities for young people. He is also a trustee of LIFEbeat and an associate trustee of Great Ormand Street Hospital.
Grace Clancey Expand Grace has 20 years’ experience working in the sport and leisure sector in a variety of different roles. After several enjoyable years working at Sport England, in 2001 Grace co-founded leading leisure consultancy business, Continuum Sport and Leisure Ltd – where Grace currently acts as the Company Director. Grace specialises in working with clients on insight gathering, strategy and policy development, grant funding and facilities planning. She has notable experience of working with National Governing Bodies of sport, clubs, the education sector, local authorities, charities, and the private sector. Grace has been a Trustee of Access Sport since 2012 and is also a Trustee of Goalball UK. Grace Clancey, Linkedin
Christine Gibbons Expand Christine qualified as a pharmacist from Bath University and subsequently became Chief Pharmacist at a London Teaching Hospital. After completing an MBA from Cranfield Business School she worked at executive and national level for the NHS across the country. Her trustee experience started in 2002 in the hospice movement. Since her retirement her interests have been in widening participation in sport and leisure activities and she is also on the parkrun global, Bath University and Cycling UK boards. She is a keen triathlete and loves cycling for leisure, competition and as a means of travel. She is passionate about enabling everyone to have access to a wide range of sport wherever they may live.
Nicolas Janvier Expand Nicolas Janvier CFA has been portfolio manager for the Threadneedle American Smaller Companies Fund since 2015. Nicolas joined the company in 2006, spending eight years in the New York office of Columbia Management, where he worked as a portfolio manager in the Value Strategies team focusing on US mid and small cap companies. He relocated to London in 2014. In addition to his Portfolio responsibilities, Nicolas has served as a Trustee-Director of the Columbia Threadneedle Foundation since 2015.Nicolas was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti where he lived until the age of 11 when his family relocated to the United States. He holds a BA in Telecommunications-Operations from the University of Florida. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.Columbia Threadneedle has been Access Sport’s Principle Corporate Partner since 2013 and having played a key role in the partnership Nicolas became a Trustee in 2019.
Helen Killingley Expand Helen has 10 years' experience working in a variety of roles across the charitable sector. She first came across Access Sport during her time working extensively at London Youth Games across their community and school sport programmes as well as developing their volunteering and disability programmes. Following this, and her work at London 2012 she now works at the funding charity Spirit of 2012, a legacy from the Olympic and Paralympic Games. She is responsible for a managing a portfolio of grants gathering insights and data to monitor and evaluate their social impact on individuals and their communities. She has considerable experience across these areas and in systems improvement. Helen is a keen runner, cyclist and skier. She actively volunteers with GoodGym and recognises the power sport has to transform lives and not just for the athletes.
Tina Kokkinos Expand Chief Operating Officer for Foreign Exchange at HSBC, Tina brings a wealth of finance and banking knowledge to Access Sport, and is also a member of the Comic Relief Finance and Risk Committee. Tina Kokkinos, LinkedIn
Paul Lee Expand Former Senior Partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP and current Chairman of the Horse Racing Betting Levy Board and Opera North, Paul also chairs Access Sport's High Sheriff network in Manchester.