![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Health-and-Fitness-Association-300x72.png\")
The Health and Fitness Association<\/p>\nThe Health and Fitness Association<\/p>\n
BOSTON, MA<\/strong> – The Health & Fitness Association, a global community of industry leaders, has hired Singapore-based attorney and international industry advocate Sean Tan as the group\u2019s senior representative in Asia.<\/p>\n In this position, he will help increase association and convention participation, guide the formation and expansion of regional and national federations and industry partner organizations, coordinate with other regional organizations, expand the association\u2019s membership base, profile, and exposure, and represent the organization at a variety of public, government, and NGO events throughout the region.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are few health and fitness industry leaders as successful and well-known in Asia as Sean Tan. His background as an entrepreneur, thought leader, and industry advocate will well serve the association\u2019s members and support our federation partners. He will be a valued and prominent member of our team in a region that is a hub of activity for fitness facilities of all sizes, industry organizations, equipment and technology development and production, and home to a diverse population and thriving national and regional economies,\u201d said association President and CEO Liz Clark.<\/p>\n \u201cI have witnessed and experienced the benefits of having a national industry association, which helps to pull together the entire industry,\u201d said Tan. \u201cI am excited about the opportunity to represent the Health & Fitness Association serving this industry in a vital region and to help support the work our industry does to improve physical and mental health in Asia and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs CEO of Ausactive, I enthusiastically welcome Sean into his new position as Asia representative of the Health & Fitness Association. Sean brings integrity, enthusiasm, and creativity to the role and I look forward to working with him to advance our shared interests and ambitions for the sector in this fast-growing and important region,\u201d said Barrie Elvish.<\/p>\n \u201cI am very supportive of Sean\u2019s new role to enable the Health & Fitness Association to further support the industry in Asia Pacific,\u201d added Richard Beddie, CEO of the Exercise Association of New Zealand. \u201cHaving worked with Sean on a number of initiatives, I believe he\u2019s the ideal local candidate with a global understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n Tan is the founder and CEO of RX Health, as well as the President and Co-Founder of the Singapore Fitness Alliance. Sean is also Director, Growth & Strategy for POP Padel, and group legal advisor for Technovator International Limited (HKEx 1206). He was the chairman of the True Group, and previously worked as group legal advisor for Neon Holdings Limited (HKEx 1868) and Tongfang Kontafarma Holdings Limited (HKEx 1312). He was COO and co-founder of Football Asia. He was also on-site Legal Counsel to the Singapore team during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n Tan is a former treasurer and council member of WorldActive, and is an attorney who earned his LLB at National University of Singapore, where he was also the president of the student council. He is a board member of the charity Smile Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BOSTON, MA<\/strong> – The Health & Fitness Association, a global community of industry leaders, has hired Singapore-based attorney and international industry advocate Sean Tan as the group\u2019s senior representative in Asia. In this position, he will help increase association and convention participation, guide the formation and expansion of regional and national federations and industry partner organizations, coordinate with other regional organizations, expand the association\u2019s membership base, profile, and exposure, and represent the organization at a variety of public, government, and NGO events throughout the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}