Training provider The Training Room has appointed Chris Peel as its new CEO.

Peel will be responsible for leading the business through its "next phase of growth", which will see it tackle the existing skills shortages within the fitness and physical activity sector.

Peel is a training specialist and previously led Rehab Jobfit, which specialises in helping unemployed individuals move into work, between 2012 and 2014.

In 2015, he launched Interserve Learning & Employment and established it as one of the largest providers of apprenticeships and adult education operating across the UK, before stepping down as MD in 2019.

Founded in 2006, The Training Room offers training and education across a number of sectors.

In 2018, it signed a deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) which resulted in the duo launching an international fitness training platform.

It is owned by a holding group, Route2Work, which was set up following a management buy-out of The Training Room in 2017.