Ross Austen is a Business Development Manager at LGC Ltd. Ross started his career at LGC as a graduate scientist, focusing on sweat testing and hormonal profiling of athletes ahead of the London 2012 games, in collaboration with UK Sport. Following this, Ross was drafted into the Supplement Testing team within LGC and his day-to-day job shifted to screening nutritional products for the presence of banned substances via mass spectrometry. Following this, Ross moved onto the programme administration side of the business and was responsible for reviewing and ensuring that brands met the stringent requirements of the certification process for Informed-Sport. Ross is now part of the global business development team within Informed-Sport/Choice, with a specific focus on the following territories; UK, Europe, South Africa and India.

Dr Samuel Impey completed his PhD at Liverpool John Moores University looking at the potential of periodised nutrition to enhance training adaptation in endurance sports. This was followed by a postdoctoral research post at John Moores examining gender differences in glycogen utilisation during training. Sam has recently moved to the University of Birmingham to undertake a research associate position examining exogenous carbohydrate metabolism. In addition to his research, Sam has been providing nutrition support to a range of athletes and sports including Aerials skiing, Taekwondo, Squash and currently is head of nutrition at Team Wiggins cycling.

Paul Chamberlain is a Nutritional Therapist and Sports Nutrition Consultant with over 11 years of experience helping people with all kinds of health disorders, and athletes from different sports, to achieve their personal health and performance goals. Paul is also an enthusiastic and energetic speaker who has lectured extensively in the UK and around the world and has written for numerous magazines.

Paul has a unique approach in which he is able to combine his extensive nutritional expertise with Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP) techniques that allow his clients have both the knowledge and motivation to make the changes necessary for optimal health and performance. Paul qualified from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition after many years as partner in a successful health food store and has since been technical director for a major food supplement manufacturer. Paul is also a qualified Master Practitioner of NLP and hypnosis.

Renee is a leading Performance and eating disorder specialist dietitian with over 15 years’ experience working in nutrition. Renee works with elite athletes, coaches and sport science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sport performance and manage eating disorders. She has delivered nutrition support to athletes over the last 2 Olympic and Paralympic cycles and other major international competitions. She is presently working with, Scottish Gymnastics, Team Bottrill, The GB 24 hour running squad, and EA Marathon development squad.

Renee is also the Nutrition Lead for Anorexia and Bulimia Care, a national Eating disorder charity who offer training, on-line learning and advice via their helpline to those struggling with or caring for someone with an Eating disorder.

She is the best-selling author of Training Food, Fast Fuel books. and Orthorexia, When Healthy Eating Goes Bad.

Renee has been invited to speak at several high profile events including Cheltenham Literature Festival, The Stylist Show and Google. She writes for many national publications and is often asked to comment in the national press. She regularly contributes to radio and TV, including News night and BBC 5 Live.