Lee spent almost 13 years as CEO of Active Partnerships, the charitable body that represents and supports the network of Partnerships across England. The network adopts a collaborative whole-system approach to create the conditions for an active nation, tackling inequalities and using the power of sport for development across a range of outcomes and target groups. Before this, Lee was Director of the County Sports Partnership in Buckinghamshire, which he helped to establish and ran for over a decade. Lee has also held non-executive Board roles in the sector with the English Federation of Disability Sport, the Sport & Recreation Alliance and the London Marathon Charitable Trust.