Senior Leadership Team

He oversaw a period during which the sport won three Olympic and two Paralympic medals at Tokyo 2020 and hosted the 2019 Taekwondo World Championships in Manchester. Prior to that, he had held advisory roles at both UK Sport and the British Olympic Association, and will bring his experience and knowledge from these positions to the UK Sports Institute.

Subsequently he spent ten years with MAN Truck and Bus (part of the VW group), latterly as Finance Director.

He joined British Cycling in 2006, coaching athletes to gold medal performances at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, before taking on the role of Head of Marginal Gains for the London 2012 Olympic cycle.

Post-London, Matt spent three years as Head of Athletic Performance at the Rugby Football Union (RFU) before returning to the UK Sports Institute in March 2016, initially as the Interim Strategic Lead for Research and Innovation and now as Director of Performance Innovation.

She has accountability for ensuring the right strategies are in place to develop and motivate our people, ensuring they are at the heart of discussions and decision making, for delivering People activity as efficiently and effectively as possible and for leading the UK Sports Institute through the change activity required to deliver our LA Strategy.

She joined the UKSI in January 2021 after spending three years leading communications and fundraising for Palace for Life Foundation, the charity arm of Crystal Palace FC.

She also spent five years at UK Sport and enjoyed secondments to Team GB, ParalympicsGB and Team England to work at the London 2012, Sochi 2014 and Glasgow 2014 Games.

This change in career path has led to Pippa holding several governance and medical leadership roles across a range of sports, including gymnastics and equestrian.

As well as her UK Sports Institute role, Pippa is the Chief Medical Officer for the British Paralympic Association. Pippa’s previous roles include being the join Acting Medical Director at the EIS and Professional Women’s Game and Para Football Medical Lead at the Football Association.

She has worked across a multitude of sports as an S&C coach, notably with GB Hockey and The Football Association as Head of S&C across with Lionesses and England pathways.  Michelle then went on to work as an S&C Technical Lead, and subsequently has been Head of the discipline since 2018.

During that time, she has worked in Performance Innovation, Performance Planning and strategy including a secondment to UK Athletics. She previously held two terms as a Non-Executive Director for British Orienteering and is now Chair of their Performance Steering Group.

She undertook several roles with UK Sport, including managing the electronic medical records roll out, working in the ETC programme and working with the Performance Advisors on the Rio funding submission process.

Her engineering and project management background made her a good fit for the Research and Innovation team as it was established and grew at UK Sport.

In 2013, the whole team (now Performance Innovation) was transferred over to the Institute where it continues to deliver performance impacting projects across the Olympic and Paralympic system.

He previously spent over a decade at the UK Sports Institute in various roles between 2005 and 2017, including Head of Sport Science & Sports Medicine (Paralympic) before becoming the Head of Performance at the British Paralympic Association.

Nik went on to be the Head of Para Sport at Loughborough Sport before returning to UKSI as Head of Paralympic Performance Support in 2022.

He also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Boccia UK.