Oliver Lee OBE announced as new CEO at Places Leisure

Oliver Lee OBE will be having the place of CEO at Locations Leisure from July. He will substitute Paul McPartlan, who announced in April that he would be leaving the organisation.

“I feel delighted, privileged, and humbled to be provided this chance to be part of Destinations for Individuals and to direct the leisure small business and the 6,000-in addition colleagues as we go ahead,” stated Lee. “The aspiration and possibility we have to use all of the skills in Sites Leisure to build and enrich the lives of consumers in our current and future communities, as well as encouraging support Destinations for People’s strategic growth ambitions, is specially thrilling.”

McPartlan joined Sites for Individuals in 2020 pursuing a stint at Nuffield Health and fitness as nationwide operations director where by he was liable for 31 Hospitals and more than 300 facilities. Turning into component of the senior management of Areas Leisure for the duration of the pandemic, he led the team in the course of a intricate time period and ends his tenure as soaring power expenditures have place additional pressure on the leisure sector, particularly operators with swimming swimming pools.

McPartlan is returning to Nuffield Overall health in an executive purpose where he will oversee the implementation of a new operating model, at first focusing on the London region – integrating Aspen and the new St Bartholomew’s Medical center – as component of Nuffield’s tactic “to create a much healthier nation”.

“My time at Places Leisure has been only extraordinary, like numerous in the leisure business we’ve navigated some complicated situations next the nationwide pandemic and we’re back on a robust trajectory,” said McPartlan. “I am certainly enthusiastic for Locations Leisure’s foreseeable future and delighted that Oliver will be at the helm with his prosperity of practical experience.”

Lee put in 18 many years in the Royal Marines, finishing his provider as commanding officer and leader of a person of the UK’s 3 commando groups. His initially 10 many years culminated in an MBE, and he was awarded an OBE in 2012 for his strategic get the job done on a social and economic regeneration programme in Afghanistan.

Subsequent military services support, Lee took the function of CEO at The Obstacle, a Uk charity that helped 242,000 youthful people involving 2009 and 2019 to build their self-confidence and daily life competencies. In March 2020, he was employed by Nuffield Wellbeing as disaster management director to help the not-for-revenue healthcare organisation as a result of the worries presented by the pandemic.

Group CEO of Destinations for Men and women, Greg Reed, stated: “Oliver’s practical experience and means – as a individuals chief and as a senior government – will enable him the two to consider Places Leisure forward as we continue to integrate it into the Locations for People company organisation, and unleash its significant strategic opportunity, all although inspiring and enthusing our colleagues in leisure about the journey they, and we all, are on.”