Electric Medway makes leadership changes

Electric Medway has announced that it will welcome a new chair of the board and a new CEO.

JANET MOORE, co-founder of the Kent-based arts organisation and digital storytelling agency, will take on the role of CEO.

Moore co-founded Electric Medway in 2015 to help local communities harness new technology creatively, alongside KEVIN GRIST, who will be stepping down from his role as executive director of the company at the end of July.

Moore has over 20 years of leadership experience and has introduced creative technology storytelling programmes with Electric Medway, such as Heritage and Hope, which collaborated with NHS Kent & Medway to develop a suicide prevention initiative using 3D scanning.

WILL DUTTA, a British-Bengali artist and creative leader, will take on the role of chair of the board.

Dutta has over 15 years of experience in the UK’s contemporary music and arts scene and is the chief executive of Sound and Music, a charity dedicated to new music and sound.

Dutta said he was “hugely excited” to take up the role, noting that “for the last ten years, the organisation has championed and nurtured local talent through game-changing creative and skills development programmes”.

Moore also said she was looking forward to working towards achieving Electric Medway’s ambition to “empower a new generation of young people from working class and low income backgrounds to use creative technology to tell their own stories”.