21st June 2020
The new Chief Executive and Artistic Director at dance development agency Dance City will be ANAND BHATT (pictured), who takes over CEO responsibilities from IAN MCKEOWN and Artistic Director responsibilities from PHIL DOUGLAS, who will continue in their roles as Financial Director and Creative Producer respectively. Bhatt was most recently Executive Producer at Aakash Odedra Company in Leicester...
Southbank Centre has announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Governors: President of Since ‘93 record label and diversity in music champion GLYN AIKINS; Chief Investment Officer of Man Group, SANDY RATTRAY; and film and TV Lawyer and Executive Producer LISBETH SAVILL, a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins.
PROFESSOR LYNDSAY DUTHIE will be the new CEO at the Production Guild of Great Britain. A film and television executive who worked for ITV and Endemol before founding her own company, Ice Blue Media, since 2018 she has been Head of School for Film, Media and Performing Arts and Head of Farnham Campus at University for the Creative Arts. She will start her new role in August, taking over from previous CEO ALISON SMALL...
14th June 2020
Multimillionaire PR specialist ROLAND RUDD will succeed Lionel Barber as Chair of Tate on the conclusion of his term in January 2021. A Trustee of Tate since 2017, Rudd was elected by other trustees in a private ballot.
FIONA EVANS, currently HR Director at Zoological Society of London (ZSL), has been appointed Director of People and Culture at the Southbank Centre from September 2020, responsible for leading its people strategy and HR function. Previously she has held Executive Director positions in HR and Communications at City and Islington College and Asthma UK.
ELLEN MCADAM has stepped down as Director of Birmingham Museums Trust after almost seven years in the post. She had been due to step down in October 2020, but has advanced her retirement to care for a family member.
JO WRIGHT, Director of Wright Consulting (UK) Ltd and previously a Senior Associate with Counterculture Partnership LLP, has become a partner in the organisation. BO ESCRITT, whose career has included 10 years at Amnesty International and 6 years working with various trusts within the NHS, joins its HR and Professional Development service.
Three-year appointments have been announced for media executive HEATHER BLYTH; insurance risk and compliance officer PAUL ECCLESON; museums and heritage consultant RITA MCLEAN; lawyer TONY WILSON; and business consultant ISABEL CHADWICK.
7th June 2020
CHRIS GRAYLING, former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Transport, has been appointed as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He served on the Board as an ex-officio member when he was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons in 2015-16. Also joining the Board is investment adviser MARK CECIL, who was a founding partner of Jabre Capital...
Two new board members have joined dance training, creation and performance company, The Place. EVA SARMA works in the private equity industry and MICHAEL “MIKEY J” ASANTE is a producer, composer, singer, dancer and DJ with a career in the urban music industry.