The appointments include Gabriella Re, the former regional intelligence officer for Trading Standards South East Ltd, who joins UKAD as head of intelligence and Michelle Heins, who joins from the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASDA), where she was director of marketing and communications .

She has been hired to help support existing athletes with their anti-doping responsibilities and to build long-term strategies to support the next generation of British champions.

The organisation, which has been in the planning process since 2007 since UK Sport recommended that there should be an indpendent agency, will be Britain's first stand-alone anti-doping agency that will assume responsibility for the UK’s national anti-doping programme in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Based at Cockspur Street in London the chairman will be David Kenworthy, who retired as Chief Constable for North Yorkshire Police in 2002 after 35 years experience working in law enforcement and who will serve in his new £33,000 per year role until at least February 2013.

The setting-up of the new body brings Britain in line with other countries like Australia and the United States, who have had high-profile independent anti-doping organisations for several years.

Other key appointments include Paul Evans, who joins as director of business support and will be responsible for overseeing the supporting functions of the organisation, including human resources, finance and IT. 

He  was formerly director of corporate services at 11MILLION, a body that supports the Children’s Commissioner for England.

Part of his remit was information risk management where he implemented high level data security systems.

He was also instrumental in establishing in-house financial and pay-roll functions. 

The new appointments join Nicole Sapstead and Graham Arthur, who had already been appointed as directors.

Parkinson said: "I am delighted we have all the directors and key staff in place.

"We have a strong leadership team with a vast amount of experience who are well positioned to deliver anti-doping policies to the highest quality."

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