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Virgin Active recruits new general managers
Virgin Active has recently recruited two new general managers (GMs) for the company’s Islington and Wandsworth clubs.
Neal Houghton joins the Islington Club. He was previously a graduate trainee at Holmes Place and worked his way up from reception to GM – working briefly at David Lloyd Leisure and Cannons before joining Virgin Active.
Meanwhile Chris Ely joined the Wandsworth club in November 2003 after spending five years with Holmes Place where he started as duty manager and worked his way through the ranks moving from club to club around London.
“I enjoy the management autonomy at Virgin Active,” Ely said, “I am encouraged to run the business as if it were my own and as our members are only contracted month by month we have to work extra hard to retain them.