In an attempt to keep up the momentum with its women’s football strategy, the Football Association (FA) has made a slew of significant appointments.

David Faulkner, one of the people credited with guiding the Team GB women’s hockey team to Rio 2016 gold, will take over as head of women’s performance on 3 April.

Faulkner will be responsible for managing the women’s high-performance system and manage the player development strategy for England the the Women’s Super League.

He won an Olympic gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Games, and coached eight of the athletes who won the top prize last summer when he was director of sport at the Millfield School in Somerset.

Faulkner will be joined by Audrey Cooper and Joanne Stimpson, who will take up the head of women’s coach development role and women’s referee manage position respectively.

The former joins from elite sports quango UK Sport where she was coaching team manager. Cooper will lead a team of “coach educators” from grassroots level to elite.

Stimpson will join the FA to develop a national strategy for refereeing in England.

In addition, former England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) executive Marzena Bodganowicz has been appointed as the national governing body’s head of marketing and commercial for women’s football.

In the role, she will design campaigns for women’s football across marketing, commercial, digital and communications.

Bodganowicz also spent 10 years at the British Olympic Association.

Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA’s head of women’s football, said the appointments were a “clear indication of our commitment to move the women’s game to a new level.”

“All of the new roles will play a key role in implementing our new women’s strategy, which aims to double women’s participation by 2020,” she added.