Health club chain Holmes Place has appointed Martin Robinson as its new chair, following Gerald Corbett’s announcement last November that he intended to step down this month.

Currently chair of Center Parcs (UK) and a non-executive director of Regus and Disneyland Paris, Robinson became a management consultant at Mckinsey & Co in 1990 before going to Scottish and Newcastle in 1994 as marketing director of its retail division. He then joined Center Parcs in 1997.