Your Management team

Meet the Senior Management team and the team that drive the internal academy training

Academy Director

Paul Spence

Paul is one of the owners of the business and the Academy Director at Chilli Pilates. Having been in the industry since graduating from the University of Salford in 2002 with a BSc(Hons) Sport Rehabilitation, he has worked within leading gyms, set up a therapy clinic, set up and was part of an educational company before moving into opening the business now called Chilli Pilates in 2009. Paul is responsible for overseeing all aspects of training and education within Chilli Pilates, as well assisting Karen in managing the instructors and is responsible for driving the growth of 121 sessions at Chilli Pilates.

CEO & Director of Finance

John Crowe

Instructor Manager

Karen Crowe

Your Management team

Meet the Senior Management team and the team that drive the internal academy training

Sales & Marketing Director

Tom Millar

Operations Director, New sites and Member Retention

Rob Smith

Senior Instructor & Academy Leader

Ben Blane

Ben has his level 3 personal training qualification, triggering his passion for Functional Movement patterns, certifying in many different HIIT styles of training, as well as the internationally recognised Animal Based style of ZUU Training. Ben joined Chilli Pilates in 2017 wanting to push his knowledge and skill set to another level when it comes to movement, qualified through the Chilli academy and has gone on to become a supervised teacher before getting involved with the academy delivery. Alongside this, be has built a successful 121 client base. When the pandemic kicked in, Bens skills with film studies and video editing came to the forefront and now Ben is an integral part of the content creation and documentation that takes place at Chilli Pilates.