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People news<br />
Rolfe appointed new Halo CEO<br />
Rutgers: A strong network of contacts<br />
Rutgers appointed as<br />
new FIBO Ambassador<br />
EuropeActive board member and fitness<br />
industry stalwart Herman Rutgers has been<br />
named new FIBO ambassador – the latest<br />
sign of the increasingly close collaboration<br />
seen between the industry body and the<br />
health and fitness trade show.<br />
Rutgers has more than 35 years’<br />
international business experience and<br />
served as the first executive director of the<br />
European Health & Fitness Association (now<br />
EuropeActive). Working on behalf of FIBO,<br />
he’ll contribute his expertise to strengthen<br />
the sector’s international network.<br />
Details: http://lei.sra=v2y9r<br />
Edmonds has 20 years’ experience<br />
Active IQ promotes<br />
Edmonds after 4 months<br />
Sarah Edmonds has been promoted to<br />
director of quality and standards for Active<br />
IQ, just four months after joining parent<br />
company Premier Global.<br />
Edmonds was announced in June as the<br />
new head of standards and compliance<br />
for Premier Global – comprised of both<br />
Premier Training International and Active<br />
IQ – having previously been interim head<br />
of CYQ at Central YMCA Qualifications.<br />
At the time, Edmonds was hailed as a<br />
valuable acquisition thanks to her 20 years’<br />
experience in the active leisure industry.<br />
Details: http://lei.sra=E7K7G<br />
Halo Leisure’s board of trustees has named He added: “Our mission is to build on our<br />
enterprise mainstay Scott Rolfe as new CEO. relationship with businesses, families, health<br />
Rolfe joined the leisure operator 12 years experts, youth organisations, community<br />
ago as one of the founding members of its groups and individual members of the<br />
senior management team and has since been community to ensure they benefit from the<br />
director of operations and managing director very best kind of sport and leisure offering,”<br />
of its trading arm. Rolfe replaces Halo’s Details: http://lei.sra=y6h8H<br />
founding CEO Jon Argent, who departed<br />
after 12 years at the helm to become national<br />
partnerships director over at GLL.<br />
In his new role as Halo chief – overseeing<br />
800 staff members – Rolfe is tasked with<br />
continuing the enterprise’s growth as it delivers<br />
health, sport and leisure across Herefordshire,<br />
Bridgend County and Shropshire.<br />
“Health and wellbeing is now recognised as a<br />
priority for local economies and communities<br />
– it has never been more important to make<br />
sport and fitness initiatives accessible to<br />
everyone,” said Rolfe. “It has never been more<br />
important to see providers like Halo working<br />
in partnership with health practitioners to<br />
prevent health problems and to help more<br />
people get more active, more often.” Rolfe holds an MBA from Worcester Uni<br />
Chris Brown swaps FitLinxx for PHS<br />
Equipment supplier Performance Health<br />
Systems (PHS) has appointed Chris Brown<br />
as the new head of healthcare and medical<br />
for its Power Plate and bioDensity brands.<br />
Brown is tasked with identifying<br />
opportunities and managing sales in the<br />
Chris Brown joined PHS in early October<br />
Outdoor exercise provider British Military<br />
Fitness (BMF) has announced the appointment<br />
of Mark Wood as its new head training tutor.<br />
Wood joined BMF five years ago as an<br />
instructor – having trained at Discovery<br />
Learning in West London – and has quickly<br />
corporate wellness, elderly care and medical<br />
markets. He is expected to expand distribution<br />
of the company’s vibration training machine<br />
Power Plate, as well as introduce and sell the<br />
bioDensity osteogenic loading system – a<br />
piece of technology that helps rebuild bone<br />
density among people affected by osteoporosis<br />
– as it makes its debut in the UK market.<br />
Brown joins from FitLinxx where he spent<br />
almost 10 years, most recently serving as<br />
director for its business development within<br />
international health and wellness markets.<br />
“The technological advances achieved<br />
by PHS are very exciting and I believe we<br />
can ultimately deliver measurable health<br />
improvements to those who most need it,”<br />
said Brown, who will be based at the PHS UK<br />
head office in London. “My job is to introduce<br />
these opportunities to healthcare and medical<br />
experts whose skills, combined with our<br />
products, can really make a difference.”<br />
Details: http://lei.sra=c3q9e<br />
BMF names Mark Wood as head training tutor<br />
risen through the ranks. His new role will<br />
focus on the continuous improvement of<br />
the quality and consistency of instruction in<br />
a bid to ensure members receive high quality<br />
sessions every time they train.<br />
Details: http://lei.sra=v5B5C<br />
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