Team UEL

Femi Bola

Director Employability

The Olympic and Paralympic Games offer a host of opportunities for UEL students. As Head of Employability & Enterprise, Femi's brief is to improve the employability of UEL students and manage the Employabilty & Enterprise Team at UEL.

Selena Bolingbroke

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Strategic Planning and External Development

Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Strategic Planning and External Development. She develops strategic policies and partnerships that underpin UEL's involvement in the regeneration of our region and ensures our students have the best opportunity to make their mark in the world through their employability and entrepreneurship skills

Nirmal Borkhataria

Pro Vice Chancellor and Director of Finance

Leading on UEL's £20 million sports and academic centre development, which is due for completion end of 2011.Championing UEL's aspirations to become a lead university for sport in London by 2015. Coordinating partnerships such as United States Olympic Committee (USOC), the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and other NGO's.

David Cosford

Director of Sport

Providing strategic and management leadership for all sports development throughout the University of East London including clubs, facilities and events, raising standards of performance and excellence, developing staff and student physical activity, initiating partnerships and coaching & volunteering.

Catherine Downes

Director of Corporate Marketing

Manages the Heads of Services across all of the Marketing services for the university's Olympic operations. Involved from the signing of the MOU and all levels of the planning and delivery with the focus on brand, reputation management, and marketing capitol.

Sara Hazzard

Head of Communications and Public Relations

Communications lead for the University's olympic and paralympic operations. Produced the University's Olympic communications strategy. Coordinating all media, social media, digital, internal, events and marketing communications around the 2012 Olympic and Para Olympic games for the Univerisity. Developing and strengthening relationships with key partners including Team USA, Asics, and Team Singapore are all within the PR remit of the Communications and PR team.

John Lock

Director 2012 Office

John Lock is the Director of UEL's 2012 Office which is the University'sinitial channel for engagement and collaboration with all aspects of the London Olympic & Paralympic Games and Legacy. He has worked in east London on regeneration challenges for over 25 years.

Mary Nicholls

Director of Olympic and Paralympic Operations

Dr Neville A. Punchard

Dean of School of Health, Sport and Bioscience

Initiated or led on early Olympic-related activity including attending the Beijing 2008 Olympics and subsequent appointments to link with Olympic teams, partnerships with the British Paralympic Association, British Swimming, Pro-Active East London and other organisations and international sports universities, the creation of the Sport Science Field, professorial appointment in Sports and the Director of Sports, and also championed the building of SportsDock.