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David Cole - Director of Business Support

David Cole is the Director of Corporate Development at UK Sport where he leads the HR, ICT, Facilities, Legal Services, Programme Management and Governance teams. In addition he has personal responsibility for all aspects of Corporate Planning, Risk Management and Performance Monitoring. He joined the UK Sport team in mid-2007.

David started his career with Whitbread plc working in a variety of operational and change management roles, working most closely with the Costa Coffee brand where he sat on the Executive Board as lead for Service Quality. In 2002, he was appointed Head of Strategic Planning at the Law Society and was heavily involved in the subsequent strategic review and restructuring of the Society. His first experience of working within a NDPB came in 2004 when he took up the opportunity to become Head of Corporate Planning and Performance at the National Crime Squad, arriving just in time to be seconded to the project team created to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Following the launch of SOCA in April 2006 David was appointed as Special Advisor to the Executive Director of Corporate Services, coordinating various organisational development initiatives both in the UK and with overseas law enforcement partners.

David has a PhD in Geology from Southampton University and is married with two small children.

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