Emily Robinson
Chief Executive Officer
Emily joined London Sport as Chief Executive Officer in February 2022 bringing with her a passion for improving physical and mental health and wellbeing. She is on her own personal journey after taking up five a side women’s football (soccer) as a first-time beginner eighteen months ago.
Beyond London Sport Emily is a member of WWF’s Impact Goals Committee, a role she has held since 2021 and is a Leaders Plus Mentor.
She also has a strong interest in behaviour change and the power of physical activity and sport to change people’s lives in terms of mental and physical health, combating loneliness and building connections. In her previous career Emily founded the Dry January campaign which is now undertaken by 8 million British people each year.
Emily joined London Sport from UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) where she had spent five years leading the organisation’s athlete education programme, running international relations and contributing as part of the leadership team to high profile cases. Her last six months at UKAD were spent as Interim CEO. Prior to UKAD, she spent five years at the charity Alcohol Concern as Deputy Chief Executive.
Tim Copley
Director of Physical activity & sport development
With nearly 20 years experience as a sport and physical activity development practitioner, Tim is a strong advocate for whole system approaches to tackling inactivity. While at Sport England he worked as an NGB Client Manager while at Press Red Consulting he worked with clients to establish sport and physical activity strategies and undertook innovative research projects to build deeper understanding of people and their communities.
Outside of work, if he’s not coaching an under 9s football team, he’s probably running.
Jade Cation
Director of Impact and Innovation
Jade is an experienced senior leader in digital, insight and data, joining London Sport as Director of Impact and Innovation after 14 years at EMD UK, the national governing body for group exercise.
At EMD, she held several roles including Head of Insight and Digital, where she led strategy across digital, research and impact, and helped deliver the award-winning classfinder application, recognised at the 2021 ukactive Awards.
A Brunel University graduate, Jade sits on the Open Active Steering Group, is a non-executive director for dance charity UDO IT, and supports women’s leadership through roles with the Women’s Sport Leadership Academy and the Females Achieving Brilliance network.
Tanya Rabin
Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications
Tanya has significant experience in partnership marketing, communications and consultancy. She has helped a number of brands including Lloyds Bank, Aviva, TSB, Coca-Cola, Samsung and Reebok, maximise their investment in a range of commercial and purpose-led partnerships, and engaged multiple audiences through creative marketing communications campaigns.
Tanya joined London Sport in March 2021, and leads on London Sport’s fundraising, commercial partnerships, marketing and communications.
She is passionate about the power of sport and physical activity to improve lives, and outside of work when she’s not out running or walking the dog, she’s ferrying her son around to multiple sporting activities.
David Tinnion
Chief operating officer
David joins us from London Youth Rowing (LYR), where he worked as COO for the last 9 years. As well as operations, during his time with the charity he also supported fundraising, governance and delivery of annual competition and fundraising events, both virtual and in-person.
Prior to working at LYR, David completed the On Purpose Associate programme, designed to help people move from corporate careers into the charity and social enterprise sector. As part of the programme David worked at Ealing Community Transport, an accessible transport charity and Big Society Capital, an organisation set up to kickstart the UK’s social investment market. Prior to On Purpose, David worked in Financial Services at Goldman Sachs and Fidelity, initially helping to open new offices across Europe and the Middle East and then working in the Institutional Asset Management teams at both organisations.
David studied Engineering at the University of Cambridge and has a Masters in History from Birkbeck College, University of London. To keep active, he runs regularly and plays five a side football.
