PAL Trustees
Roanne Dods (Chair)
Roanne is the former Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation where she was responsible for strategic initiatives across all art forms. She is Creative Director of RoseOrange; and Research and Projects Co-ordinator for The Mindful Leadership Foundation. She sits of the boards of BAC, Young Vic, Fuel, International Futures Forum, Innovative Craft CIC and Mission Models Money. She is particularly interested in the importance of valuing the people that make good things happen and celebrating and valuing the multiple intelligences that people work with to respond to our complex environment. She is also deeply committed to supporting the important role that artists play through their work and practice to a developing cultural leadership across all avenues of civic life.
Nicholas Bingham (Vice Chair)
For twelve years President-International of Sony Television Entertainment, Sony Pictures’ division responsible for world-wide programme sales and distribution, new channel development and management and local programme production, Nick Bingham was also chairman of VIVA TV, the German music TV channel, in which Sony Pictures was a major shareholder. He is currently Chairman of Fortium Technologies, a software company specialising in leading edge digital content control technologies. Nick gained an MBA at INSEAD, has lived and worked in Spain, France, Italy the US and Japan.
Bob Lockyer
Bob Lockyer spent over 40 years working at the BBC, rising to become an executive producer in the Classical Music Department, with responsibility for dance programming, including the Dance for Camera series, films from which attracted major international awards, including the Prix Italia. He reformed BBC Young Musicians, extending it beyond the popular search to find some of Britain’s most talented young musicians by giving young composers and conductors the chance to work with the BBC Philharmonic and looking at music therapy and jazz. For over ten years Bob has been running workshops on dance and the camera, visiting Australia, South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom. He was the Founder Chair of Dance UK. He also helped establish the much admired Healthier Dancer Programme that has been copied all over the world. Until recently, Bob was Chair of South East Dance, the national dance agency, based in Brighton.
Rehana Mughal
Rehana Mughal is a Freelance Consultant, she recently worked as Creative Producer at the Southbank Centre in London were she co curated an exhibition of young peoples art work. She has worked in the cultural sector for ten years managing national and international cultural partnership projects. Rehana has expertise in intercultural dialogue, partnership project design and management and she is an Arts Award Advisor. Prior to working independantly Rehana worked at Creativity, Culture and Education where she worked on the Creative Partnerships programme since its inception and spent six years working with Arts Council England, developing collaborative cultural projects working with artists, museums, galleries and teachers in London. Rehana graduated from the Slade School of Art at University College London with a Masters in Fine Art Sculpture. After graduating she worked in higher education, lecturing at universities. She is a Trustee for the Kingsgate Gallery and Workshops in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Rehana has a particular interest in the transformative power of arts and culture and is interested in projects that use creativity to develop a capable and enterprising population.
Paul Newman
Paul Newman is a Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, the US-based investment banking group. He has some 25 years’ professional experience in providing corporate finance advice, including advice on capital raisings and on mergers and acquisitions, to UK small and medium-sized companies, predominantly in the listed arena. During his career, he has held senior positions at ING Bank, at Charterhouse Securities, at stockbrokers Sutherlands (where in 1996 he was a founding director of a new London office) and at Williams de Broe. His industry specialisations include housebuilding and construction, real estate and support services. Paul holds a masters degree in science from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a doctorate from Oxford University, where he carried out research in inorganic chemistry. His personal interests embrace the visual and performing arts, architecture and music.
Mark Phillips
Mark Phillips is a Partner of Harbottle & Lewis entertainment and media law firm, a member of its Strategy Group and head of its Interactive Entertainment Group and joint head of eCommerce & Technology Group. He has been involved with the digital and interactive media industries since their inception and his practice has evolved with the development of these technologies. Principally he specialises in corporate, commercial and copyright work for clients in the media, arts and technology industries and is recognised as a leader in the fields of interactive entertainment, the internet, e-commerce and publishing and is considered by various directories as one of the country’s leading practitioners in video games law and the law of publishing. He also sits on the Advisory Boards of internet and technology companies.
Matilda Pye
Matilda Pye studied at the Ruskin School at the University of Oxford and the Jan Van Eyck Akedeime in Maastricht. As a practising artist she has shown in the UK and Europe. She was a visiting lecturer on the MA / MFA Fine Art programme at Middlesex University for a number of years and has lectured at Kingston University. She currently runs an MA module for Roehampton University and Tate. Since 2004 she has worked predominantly with museums including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery and is currently working at the V&A, creating public programmes for adults, students and the creative industries. From 2008-10 she was a researcher and project manager for the Engine Room at the University of the Arts, London. Matilda has worked with PAL for more than a decade on a range of Labs and has worked closely with PAL’s Founder Artistic Director.
Joanna Reesby
Joanna is the founder of Mission Bay Limited. As one of the UK’s leading media head-hunters, she is known for her deep experience in the media industry as both an executive and in recruitment. Her search career began in 2004 when she launched the London office of a US based media search boutique and then later led the media division of Whitehead Mann, subsequently Korn Ferry International, London, post-acquisition. Before embarking on her search career, Joanna was at Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment for four years working across a wide range of commercial activities and projects. She also spent seven years with Hasbro Inc., as global Senior Vice President of Visual Media and Head of International Licensing consecutively. Joanna began her career as an intellectual property lawyer in the U.K. and New Zealand. She has an LLB (hons) from the University of Auckland and an LLM from the University of Cambridge and is currently studying for a B.Sc in Psychology. Her career, based on the creation and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property in all formats, is characterised by its internationalism, versatility and trusted professionalism with clients and candidates alike.
Kerstin Mey
Kerstin is Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Creative Arts where she is also Professor in Fine Art. With a degree in Art and German language and literature, a PhD in art theory/aesthetics and a PG Dip in European Cultural Policy and Administration, she has worked in academic positions in Universities in Germany and the UK. Her expertise includes leadership and management in Higher Education both in research and academic development. In her current Senior Management position she holds responsibility for the development and implementation of the institutional research and enterprise strategy including UCA’s cultural offer. Her own research is concerned with contemporary and 20th century Visual Arts and Culture. It involves cross-disciplinary research at the interface of art practice, theory and history, as well as public pedagogies and cultural policy. She has led and worked in multi- and trans-disciplinary research project teams and set ups for the past decade. Kerstin has been a long term supporter of PALs work and she currently with Susan Benn co-leads the project A Pedagogy of Curiosity. She has published widely on contemporary art, applied aesthetics and related areas as well as curated exhibitions and organised international conferences, symposia and exhibitions. She is international advisor to the New Media Arts Programme, University of Liepaja, Latvia.
Former PAL Trustees include:
Gary Carter, Sam Clarke, John Faulkner, Mahlet Getachew Zimeta, Hilary Hodgson, Joyce Hytner, Edward Knighton, James Lee (Chair), Clare Lovett (Chair), Robert Loder CBE (Chair), George Loudon, Diana Napper, Louise Rice, Sally Sampson, Louisa Service, Elise Beckett Smith, Martin Smith (Chair), Sir John Tooley, Caroline Underwood (Chair), Colin Vaines, Tim Waterstone and John Wates.
