Our Board

Atholl Duncan - Chair

Atholl is a business leader with a wide range of experience as a non-executive director in sport. He was the chairman of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) – the governing and regulatory body for the UK’s second largest spectator sport – and still serves on the BHA’s board. He was a non-executive director of sportscotland from 2001 to 2009; a director of the Scottish Sports Council Trust – which runs three national sports centres – for a decade; and one of the founding trustees of the Hibernian FC Community Foundation.

He is the chair of the Scottish Salmon Organisation and a trustee of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Atholl is passionate about getting more people, more active, more often to address the nation’s problems with health and inactivity. He is inspired by the great work of our elite coaches winning on the world stage, as well as the achievements of the many thousands of our coaches who change people’s lives at a community level. He was a schoolboy rowing international, a club rugby player and still competes in 10Ks, triathlons and half ironmans.

In his professional career, Atholl worked for the BBC for 20 years and was head of news and current affairs for BBC Scotland from 2007 to 2011, leading 270 journalists working on TV, radio and online. He was also executive director of ICAS – the professional and membership body for 21,000 chartered accountants – many of whom are chairs, CEOs and CFOs, leading the best known companies across the UK and in 100 countries around the world. Atholl is an INSEAD qualified executive coach and is the owner of The Edge Coaching and Consultancy Ltd.

Committees: Nominations (Chair)

Michelle Bramley

Michelle Bramley is a senior lawyer and business leader with nearly 30 years' experience in a variety of legal and senior management roles at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, most recently as Global Head of Knowledge. 

Michelle has significant operational management experience including digital transformation and innovation delivery. Her expertise includes international dispute resolution, risk and regulatory compliance, business and human rights, and modern slavery. 

Since leaving Freshfields, Michelle has undertaken consulting work for charities and is currently an advisory board member of ForestSEA, a not for profit organisation developing reforestation initiatives in South East Asia. 

Michelle is also a member of Thomson Reuters’ Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law and Knowledge Management Advisory Boards. 

Committees: Finance, Audit & Risk, Governance (Chair),  ESG working group and Coaching Advisory Panel (Interim Chair)

Ed Hepworth

Ed has been the Chief Financial Officer of Six Nations Rugby since 2020 and has nearly 30 years' experience of senior finance roles across a range of industries. He previously worked at the NBA (National Basketball Association) in New York and London for eight years, and has experience with major brands including Sainsbury’s, Reuters, PwC and British Airways.

Ed is currently the Chair of Active Communities Network, a Sport for Development charity who support many disadvantaged communities across the UK. He’s a passionate believer in the power of sport to transform people’s lives and sees sport as a pathway to education, training and employment.

Ed is a qualified football and rugby coach at youth level, having been inspired to get involved in grassroots sports with his children.

Committees: Finance and Audit & Risk (Chair)

Alaina MacGregor

Alaina turned to charity work after 16 successful years working in marketing. Once in the charity sector, she set up and managed a £1.3million community project in Leamington Spa - noted by the National Lottery as one of the most successful projects in its field.

Alaina won a National Archives award for the volunteer components of a heritage project in 2007. In 2010, she took up a volunteer advisory role with British Blind Sport and became CEO in 2011. Under her guidance, British Blind Sport has grown year on year - initially supporting 350 people per annum to reaching over 10,000 individuals and organisations each year.

She was a dance and physical activity coach at a school for children with special needs. In her 20s, she became an aerobics teacher and coached in a local college. In her current role at British Blind Sport, she instigated the first of the national disability sports organisations to create sport and impairment specific coaching resources.

Committees: HR & Remuneration and Governance

Colin Rattigan

Colin began his career with Shell with various periods in the business strategy and retail marketing departments. After leaving Shell, he moved from the energy sector taking on a variety of senior management roles in advertising, consumer marketing and technology consulting roles in Asia and Europe. 

Colin is a former athlete and Olympic bobsledder, representing Great Britain at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Games. He has coached at elite and grassroots levels across three sports. He believes in the strong connectivity that sport can changes lives and coaching is the catalyst and enabler of that goal in society. 

Committees: Finance and Audit & Risk