Katrina Duncan, Chair of the Board of Trustees, has thirty years’ experience of arts management and consultancy across all performing arts. From 2001 to 2005, her main work was with Youth Music, coordinating its 22 Action Zones around England. She then spent three months as the Acting Director of the Dhow Countries Music Academy in Zanzibar. She has evaluated work for (among others) Dance United and Look Ahead Housing and Care and written case studies for Creative Partnerships; taught short courses on various aspects of arts management (clients have included the Independent Theatre Council and Audiences London) and been general manager of theatre and puppet companies. Katrina is now an Associate Director with responsibilities for Learning and Development for Serious – live music producer. Before taking up this post, she had previously worked for Serious as project and content manager for State of Play, the Music Manifesto conference which took place at The Roundhouse, London in January 2007 and for Musical Futures – In Your Hands, a Paul Hamlyn Foundation event in 2008.
Julia Craik is Managing Director of The Premises in Shoreditch, one of the UK’s most famous music studios, where acts as diverse as Nina Simone, Tom Jones, Little Boots, The London Community Gospel Choir, The Arctic Monkeys and Soweto Kinch have rehearsed or recorded. She is also company secretary and Director of Development for The Premises Music Education Programme, a Hackney based registered charity. For the last 15 years Julia has helped grow the studio business, as well as leading its involvement in ethical and green issues, helping The Premises win the prestigious Music Week “Green Business Award” in 2011. She recently developed a colony of 80,000 bees on the studio roof and has worked with Suggs from Madness to champion urban beekeeping and help promote awareness of the declining bee population.
Jack Hiett is a creative and cultural industries consultant specialising in cross sector partnerships, fundraising and strategic management. Clients include the London Development Agency, Creative Process, Sector Skills Councils, the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, BT and RMJM. In recent years he has programme managed project for the Government Office for London and Arts Council England. Prior to that he founded youth marketing company DV8 and spent three years in Sydney establishing a new Asia-Pacific brand development and sponsorship division for Loop Domain. Jack holds an Honours in Development Studies and a Masters in Urban Regeneration.
John Leahy is an experienced music industry executive who has worked for some of the UK’s biggest record labels, including Polydor and EMI, as well as one of the country’s leading independent companies, Domino Records. John is an experienced marketeer, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, who has worked with some of the biggest domestic and international recording artists of the last 15 years. Successful campaigns John has been involved in include artists as diverse as Lady Gaga, Eminem, Robbie Williams, Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys. John’s consultancy, Instrumental, was established in 2010 and works with music clients including Noel Gallagher as well as photographers and designers, technology companies and charities, including Julie’s Bicycle and Blue Dot. Additionally John has worked as a lecturer teaching music industry studies for clients including BIMM.
Nick Rampley, after studying music at the University of Oxford has followed a career in education management which has included over ten years as Director of Finance and Administration at the Purcell School. He has been Vice Principal of Morley College since March 2009. Nick has a MBA degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology and the Institute of Accountants Diploma in Charity Finance and is a trustee of the Open College network London Region. He continues his musical interests as principal bassoon of the Kensington Symphony Orchestra (where he is also a trustee), as the bass guitarist in a soul covers band and as an occasional writer of programme notes.
Richard Sheahan has spent 12 of the last 15 years running his own business. He has tried to help a very wide range of companies and some government departments to organise themselves to be more responsive to their ‘customers’. During that time he has also been a volunteer adviser for Arts & Business, trustee of the Florence Trust and Mirage Children’s Theatre Company, governor of a Lambeth primary school and served on the Marketing Board of Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is married with two children and has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College Oxford.
Alison Tickell established Julie’s Bicycle in 2007 as a not-for-profit company, to unite and lead the music industry in tackling climate change, it is expanding to include theatre and visual arts. JB has brought together a coalition of scientific and industry figures to map the carbon profile of the industry and take practical steps to reduce it and has developed the Industry Green certification scheme specifically for the creative sector. She is Associate Professor at Buckinghamshire New University, a member of the Events Supplement Working Group for the Global Reporting Initiative, and a founder participant on the United Nations Music & Environment Programme, 2010. Previous roles include Music Director at Creative and Cultural Skills and Development Director at Community Music, Advisory roles include the Live Music Forum, Music Manifesto Steering Group, and the Music Business Forum. Alison trained as a musician.
Tony Nwachukwu is a renowned producer, lecturer and music consultant. He specialises in connecting the worlds of music production and learning by creating innovative opportunities with music focused creative professionals and industry. His project CDR – ‘The Night of Ideas and Tracks in the Making’ is one such opportunity grooming some of today’s most forward thinking artists and producers. To many he is also known as producer of Attica Blues and project monikers NEPA Allstar and The Wach whose diverse production and remix credits include Macy Gray, The Cinematic Orchestra, Duran Duran and U.N.K.L.E. His lecturing, consulting and learning concepts have been utilised by companies and organisations including Red Bull, Coca Cola, UEL, University of Westminster and Apple.
