Our team

Vicky has over 20 years experience working in the sport and physical activity sector. Roles have included project managing exercise referral projects, club and community development and facility programming and sustainability for a large Local Authority.

Vicky has also worked in the third sector supporting local infrastructure and community and voluntary organisations to become more sustainable and to help local people into sustainable employment.

Abi has worked at ThinkActive since 2006, before which she worked for Warwick District Council as a Sport Development Officer and Sports Coach.

Abi ​is the Senior Partnership Manager responsible for the effective delivery of our ‘Inspiring Active Communities’ strategy, leading the team and supporting the Director in the development of the organisation in terms of growth and sustainability.

Annette has extensive knowledge and experience after working in a variety of organisations within the commercial and public sectors, most recently working
in Facilities Management for CBRE at various IBM sites.

As the Business Support Officer for ThinkActive, Annette is responsible for the smooth operation of all administration systems and processes required to support the team and the organisation. She makes sure the office runs efficiently and effectively

Kerry comes from a varied background working on extensive projects for the banking industry, public transport, and private businesses.

As Think Active’s Event Manager Kerry is responsible for the planning, promoting, and ensuring the smooth running of events. Organising events that inspire our community and allow individuals to thrive.

Jordan is the Partnership Manager for Health and the Solihull Area. Beyond this, he is our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead.

Jordan joined us having previously been the Community Manager for Wasps, where he originally started his career leading the Disability and Inclusion community programmes – putting to use his BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching Science with Disability Sport.

Lucy has a BSc Honours in Sports Development and Coaching from the University of Gloucestershire in 2017. Following this Lucy worked for Stratford-on-Avon District Council in the Active Communities Team as an Active Communities Support Officer and Leisure Officer working closely with the local leisure centres.

Lucy is the Partnership Manager for Warwickshire supporting Think Active’s priorities for the area. Lucy also leads on Think Active’s grants and funding and makes sure our funding gets to the right groups and clubs.

Rhiannon has a range of experience working with small businesses and social enterprises in Virtual Assistant, Project Manager and Marketing and PR Assistant roles.

In previous roles, Rhiannon has worked across finance, administration and marketing functions and has successfully improved efficiencies internally and increased reach and customer satisfaction externally.

Sharon is currently Chief Executive Officer at Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council. She was previously Strategic Director of Place at Birmingham City Council, and served 40 years in Birmingham.
Sharon continues to lead and manage the transformation of many front line services, managing thousands of people and multiple multi million pound budgets.
Throughout her career to date, Sharon has vast experience of working with the public, private and voluntary sectors across a diverse range of public and private agencies, to improve the lives of local people.
As Chair of Think Active Sharon led the organisation from its hosting arrangements to become Charitable Independent Organisation. Her financial and public sector expertise provide oversight and governance for Sport England and our other funders.
As Board Champion for our Environmentally Friendly & Climate Conscious focus Sharon brings leadership, support, challenge and expertise to the essential and emerging environmentally friendly and climate conscious agenda.

Paul is Vice Chair at Think Active and was integral in setting up the Think Active CSW, the Charitable Independent Organisation. As an inspirational leader with over 30 years experience across retail, merchanting, business to business and consultancy sectors Paul continues to contribute to the development and continual improvement of Think Active, its systems, processes and its people.
With decades of private sector experience, Paul is Financial Conduct Authority certificated and provides guidance and leadership to Think Active's finances, financial reporting and the story telling around the impact of Think Active investments and grant giving.
Paul is also a Non Exec Director for a training company aiming to change the domestic retrofit workplace for the better. He has a Law Degree. He is a consultant in the area of energy efficient and sustainable building and he works with his wife in her Garden Design business.

Denise has extensive experience as a Director in both an Executive and Non-Executive capacity. She has formerly held executive positions in both the public sector (Department for Transport) and private sector including TNT UK & Ireland and Powergen plc, in all cases focusing on the provision of information and technology services. She has been a Non-Executive director within the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group for Birmingham and Solihull and Centro (now Transport for West Midlands), in both cases chairing the Audit and Governance Committee, and with Sanctuary Housing, also serving as a member of the Audit and Governance Committee. In addition to her role with Think Active CSW she is a director of Riverside Freehold Limited based in Solihull.
As Chair of the Audit, Governance & Finance Committee Denise provides leadership and oversight for all Think Active's governance, operations and finance.

Liam is an experienced senior and strategic leader with extensive experience across national reach programme delivery in the sports development, volunteering and education landscapes. Currently the Director of Engagement with SLQ Sports Leaders, the leading awarding organisation for leadership skills qualifications in the UK, Liam has a strong focus on empowering skill development in young people. He leads a team working with over 2,000 national and local partners across the UK, including schools, colleges, active partnerships, local authorities, community sports clubs and national governing bodies. A big believer in user/customer experience, he has extensive experience having previously worked in the financial sector and customer service environments. He also has a Law degree and masters in Sports Law and regulation.
As Board Champion for Welfare and Safeguarding Liam provides leadership, support, challenge and expertise to the essential and developing welfare and safeguarding agenda and to Think Active's internal safeguarding group.

Dr Hussain is a lifestyle doctor and team Great Britain Age Group long distance triathlete. He has a varied portfolio career across several sectors. These include being the Royal College of GPs lifestyle and physical activity lead, Leamington social prescribing lead, as well as a SWIM England clinical advisor. He runs a pioneering NHS based lifestyle clinic and fitness club helping to educate and support patients to eat better, move more and connect with their community. He has a strong focus on health span. Highlighting the lifestyle needed to prepare yourself to be the best 80-year-old. He is a well-respected educator delivering numerous talks and lectures to audiences both professional and public including a regular slot on the channel 4 show Steph’s packed lunch.

Shade joined Warwickshire County Council in October 2019 as Director of Public Health with responsibility for improving and protecting the health of Warwickshire’s population.
Shortly after Shade started in role, Covid arrived on the scene and she therefore spent the first two years leading on the pandemic response in Warwickshire and working with system partners to ensure that we protected our most disadvantaged and vulnerable residents.
In the last year, as Covid has settled and life has returned to some sort of normalcy, a different set of challenges have emerged. The cost-of-living crisis, precipitated by a complex mix of factors has raised the importance of health inequalities once again, similar to how the pandemic did.
Shade is currently working across Warwickshire County Council and the local health economy to ensure that we begin to think through and develop robust responses, actions and interventions to address/tackle the current challenge.
Shade leads and is supported by a great small team of about 27 people who work across different areas of public health – health improvement, health protection, health inequalities, mental health, children’s health and the wider determinants of health. This team links with and relies upon the impressive wider system in Warwickshire and a strong commitment amongst system partners to work collaboratively to influence all of what makes us healthy.