People

Paul is currently the chief market analyst for a global, retail, trading-firm, which offers a service to: forex, commodities and equities traders, who wish to copy (mirror trade) other successful traders. Paul also acts as a mentor for forex traders.

He designs proprietary, algorithmic, trading-models, for high frequency traders, using Python, a programming language he's currently studying. Paul acts as a consultant for a Nordic hedge fund, who have developed A.I., machine learning, algorithmic, trading-strategies.

Paul’s entrepreneurial history includes launching one of the first, U.K. based, online-retailers of white goods, from an e-commerce website launched in 1998. 

Thereafter, Paul successfully exited an online mortgage advice service in 2008, which offered first-time, home-buyer advice, to U.K. residents. 

Paul is the Operations Director of the world-renowned Underground Training Station (UTS), an institute of Exercise, Health, and Sport based in Wirral, England.
 

After forging a successful career in the legal industry for fifteen years, Paul began working with UTS in 2014 and has been responsible for implementing change and managing a significant period of growth. Paul leads on the marketing and creative output of UTS and is also the point of contact for many of their partners, including Under Armour and Technogym.
 

Paul is also an integral part of the UTS Foundation; a Wirral-based charity that supports those affected by cancer. As a passionate sportsman, Paul has set a target to run sub 40 minutes for 10k in 2020 

After a distinguished career as a professional sportsman, Neil has dedicated himself over the past twenty years, to the development of human performance through a science based approach. 

Neil works for and consults with some of the most successful and prestigious sports clubs and Institutes globally such as: the English Institute of Sport (two Olympic Games), England rugby, Manchester City and British Snowsports.

Neil is currently consulting to the English FA and various premiership players, combined with spearheading the highly respected and successful UTS coaching team, which is determined to discover innovative performance solutions, in order to make the best even better.

David has been involved in sports business and athlete management for fifteen years and during that time has been integral in the launch of many, successful, sustainable, commercial businesses.

David works with many Olympic and professional athletes in the areas of performance and lifestyle planning, while supporting athletes setting up their own businesses, charities and campaigns. 

David has worked with sport companies and ex professional athletes as part of an expert advisory team, regrading proof of product research.

In addition to his Director role at Nanoventive, David is Head of Elite Sport and Athlete Management at the world-renowned Sport and Exercise Science Department for Liverpool John Moores University. 

David is also the Head of Liverpool’s Talented Athlete Centre managing a team of sports science practitioners, delivering support to local, international, athletes and Liverpool and Everton women’s football academy players.

Dr. Colin Robertson has been involved in human performance and sports science his entire professional career and is currently the Programme Leader and Head of the Athletic Development Centre (Bolton One) and the Research Coordinator for the country’s leading Sports Rehabilitation department at the University of Bolton, involved in the largest injury surveillance programme globally catering for every Super League team in Europe. 

Colin is a Research Lead for Greater Manchester Health Innovations Strategy (primarily focused on the reversibility of type two diabetes through exercise and nutrition) and the Greater Manchester School Sports Strategy; measuring the impact of changes to PE on children’s health and wellbeing.

Over the past four years Colin has become a leading practitioner in the area of endurance sports successfully training and preparing athletes for a multitude of extreme endeavours: a four-man row across the Atlantic, qualification for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, the Marathon des Sables across the Sahara Desert, the summit of Everest. Colin has led treks across the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, Mount Kilimanjaro, and kayak expeditions across the Irish Sea, Lake Powell and several European rivers.

Over the past nineteen years Colin has travelled the globe speaking at a number of international conferences, including a TEDx talk, on issues and topics ranging from: nutrition, chronobiology, athlete preparation and the changing state of health in western industrialised nations. From clinical rehabilitation, up to elite sports performance, Colin has worked with a broad range of athletes and individuals and his particular areas of interest are the impact of exercise on health, nutrition and the physiology of strength and conditioning training.

Colin is well-published amongst the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and has authored (and co-authored) leading impact papers on nutrition, strength training, time-zone transition for elite athletes and exercise testing.