Belinda Budge is a textile maker and designer. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2019, she made a much-praised film, Walnut Ink Markings, about her work. She went on to set up StudioBudgeBudge, a working design studio, and a recent collaboration with bio fashion designer Piero D’Angelo resulted in the Black Walnut Show AS24+, an outlier of London Fashion Week 2023.
For over 30 years, Belinda was a luminary of the book publishing industry, working for both The Women’s Press and Virago in the 1980’s, and co-founding the start-up feminist publishing company, Scarlet Press. In 1992 she joined Harpercollins Publishers where she worked with many talented authors and honed her love of storytelling. As Group Publisher and Main Board Director she provided creative, strategic, commercial and operational leadership to the worldwide business. Her vision and passion for building businesses, creative cultures and innovating made her a respected voice within publishing. In response to the then existential threat to her industry of digital and self-publishing, Belinda focused on putting innovation at the heart of the business by re-imagining the relationships between writer, publisher, retailer and audience.
Belinda continues to be a mentor focusing on creativity, strategy and leadership.
Belinda is Co-Founder of the IDA Project, an irreverent conversation for women in their 60-90’s.
Belinda joined the Board of Creative England as a non-executive director in 2014 and was Chair from 2017-2020. Following the integration of the Creative Industries Federation with Creative England, Belinda was Vice Chair of the newly formed Creative UK. She took over as Chair of Creative UK in Autumn 2022.
Caroline Norbury OBE is the Chief Executive of Creative UK, the independent network for the UK’s Creative Industries working to support and invest in creative talent and businesses, and unite the UK’s creative industries.
Caroline sits on the Creative Industries Council and co-chairs the Investment for Growth sub-group of the Council. She is a non-executive director of Crowdfunder, the UK’s largest rewards-based crowdfunding platform; a member of BAFTA and the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee for the PRS Foundation, a charity supporting new music and talent. Caroline is also Chairwoman of The Music Works, a charity in Gloucestershire changing the lives of young people through music. She was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to the film industry, and has recently been awarded an OBE at The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022 for her leadership and advocacy in shaping the creative sector’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Belinda Budge is a textile maker and designer. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2019, she made a much-praised film, Walnut Ink Markings, about her work. She went on to set up StudioBudgeBudge, a working design studio, and a recent collaboration with bio fashion designer Piero D’Angelo resulted in the Black Walnut Show AS24+, an outlier of London Fashion Week 2023.
For over 30 years, Belinda was a luminary of the book publishing industry, working for both The Women’s Press and Virago in the 1980’s, and co-founding the start-up feminist publishing company, Scarlet Press. In 1992 she joined Harpercollins Publishers where she worked with many talented authors and honed her love of storytelling. As Group Publisher and Main Board Director she provided creative, strategic, commercial and operational leadership to the worldwide business. Her vision and passion for building businesses, creative cultures and innovating made her a respected voice within publishing. In response to the then existential threat to her industry of digital and self-publishing, Belinda focused on putting innovation at the heart of the business by re-imagining the relationships between writer, publisher, retailer and audience.
Belinda continues to be a mentor focusing on creativity, strategy and leadership.
Belinda is Co-Founder of the IDA Project, an irreverent conversation for women in their 60-90’s.
Belinda joined the Board of Creative England as a non-executive director in 2014 and was Chair from 2017-2020. Following the integration of the Creative Industries Federation with Creative England, Belinda was Vice Chair of the newly formed Creative UK. She took over as Chair of Creative UK in Autumn 2022.
Caroline Norbury OBE is the Chief Executive of Creative UK, the independent network for the UK’s Creative Industries working to support and invest in creative talent and businesses, and unite the UK’s creative industries.
Caroline sits on the Creative Industries Council and co-chairs the Investment for Growth sub-group of the Council. She is a non-executive director of Crowdfunder, the UK’s largest rewards-based crowdfunding platform; a member of BAFTA and the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee for the PRS Foundation, a charity supporting new music and talent. Caroline is also Chairwoman of The Music Works, a charity in Gloucestershire changing the lives of young people through music. She was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to the film industry, and has recently been awarded an OBE at The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022 for her leadership and advocacy in shaping the creative sector’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mervyn Lyn has been at the coalface of contemporary music for over 35 years, helping break some of the most iconic artists in the world. Mervyn set up his company in 2012 helping brands partner with talent in music, sport and entertainment to amplify their messages. His first clients were MasterCard and he completed successful partnerships around The BRITs, UCL Final, Rugby World Cup and Priceless Surprises comprising their Priceless Gigs series.
Jack is a composer, broadcaster and writer. He is one of the UK’s youngest commissioned composers and the UK’s youngest-ever national radio presenter
In his teens, Jack composed for the Royal Opera House, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Classic FM, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Band of HM Royal Marines and for the official Canada 150 Celebrations in Trafalgar Square. He has performed everywhere from Wembley Arena to the Roundhouse.
Aged 19, Jack helped plan and launch Bauer Media’s Scala Radio. He presents the weekly arts show, Jack Pepper’s Culture Bunker; past guests include Gary Barlow, Lang Lang, Cameron Mackintosh and Nicola Benedetti. He has also presented specials for Magic at the Musicals and Jazz FM, and hosts the musical theatre show for British Airways and Aer Lingus in-flight entertainment. In 2019, he was named one of the ReelWorld Radio Academy’s 30 Under 30.
Jack writes regularly for Gramophone and Musicals Magazine, is an ambassador for Music For Youth and sits on voting panels for major awards including the BRIT Awards and Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.
Vanessa Spence is the Commercial Design and Visual Director at ASOS. Vanessa was instrumental in creating the successful ASOS brand portfolio. Her expertise lies in creating and presenting innovative ideas to contribute to strategic revenue growth and organisational progress.
Mervyn Lyn has been at the coalface of contemporary music for over 35 years, helping break some of the most iconic artists in the world. Mervyn set up his company in 2012 helping brands partner with talent in music, sport and entertainment to amplify their messages. His first clients were MasterCard and he completed successful partnerships around The BRITs, UCL Final, Rugby World Cup and Priceless Surprises comprising their Priceless Gigs series.
Jack is a composer, broadcaster and writer. He is one of the UK’s youngest commissioned composers and the UK’s youngest-ever national radio presenter
In his teens, Jack composed for the Royal Opera House, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Classic FM, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Band of HM Royal Marines and for the official Canada 150 Celebrations in Trafalgar Square. He has performed everywhere from Wembley Arena to the Roundhouse.
Aged 19, Jack helped plan and launch Bauer Media’s Scala Radio. He presents the weekly arts show, Jack Pepper’s Culture Bunker; past guests include Gary Barlow, Lang Lang, Cameron Mackintosh and Nicola Benedetti. He has also presented specials for Magic at the Musicals and Jazz FM, and hosts the musical theatre show for British Airways and Aer Lingus in-flight entertainment. In 2019, he was named one of the ReelWorld Radio Academy’s 30 Under 30.
Jack writes regularly for Gramophone and Musicals Magazine, is an ambassador for Music For Youth and sits on voting panels for major awards including the BRIT Awards and Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.
Vanessa Spence is the Commercial Design and Visual Director at ASOS. Vanessa was instrumental in creating the successful ASOS brand portfolio. Her expertise lies in creating and presenting innovative ideas to contribute to strategic revenue growth and organisational progress.
Karen began her media career in 1993 at CIA MediaNetwork (now known as Wavemaker), working across a range of direct response accounts as a specialist direct response planner and buyer. Karen continued her career by joining Zenith Media in 1995 as a Senior Communications Planner, working on the prestigious BT account. Karen was quickly head-hunted by The Media Business Group to take up the role of Media Manager.
In October 1999, Karen was promoted to the Board of Directors of the newly merged MediaCom and The Media Business Group Board. In January 2003, Karen moved from the Business Director role that she had held for so long to become the Marketing Director of MediaCom.
In 2008, Karen became MediaCom’s Chief Operations Officer for EMEA. After 3 years strengthening the EMEA network, during which time MediaCom moved from the 5th to 3rd largest EMEA network media agency, Karen was promoted to CEO of the UK Office in January 2011, running over £1.3bn of media billings and over 1,200 people in 5 UK locations.
In January 2016, after serving as CEO for 5 years, Karen was promoted to Chairwoman of MediaCom UK & Ireland and is closely linked with clients such as Tesco, Coca-Cola and Sky. As of January 2018, Karen took on a newly created role as the first UK Country Manager for WPP, the world’s largest communications network, overseeing 11,000 people across a number of well-known operating brands such as Ogilvy, Grey, VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson. In this role Karen is responsible for delivering growth in WPP’s 2nd largest market, with revenue of $2 billion.
In 2019 Karen was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the UK Cabinet Office. Karen was appointed as CEO of GroupM U.K, the world’s leading media investment company, in April 2020 – an additional role to her WPP UK Country Manager responsibilities. In November 2020, Karen featured in one of the Top 100 Great Black Britons.
Isaac is a freelance writer, as well as a curator at the arts consultancy Artiq. Prior to this, he studied a BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, followed by roles at the British Journal of Photography and The Photographers’ Gallery. His words have been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Elephant Magazine, Galerie Peter Sellim, The Photographers’ Gallery, and The South London Gallery. He is particularly interested in documentary ethics, race, gender, class, and the body.
Tari Lang has had an international career advising blue-chip corporations and government leaders. She was CEO of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and Founding Partner of ReputationInc. Her expertise lies in reputation risk, scenario planning and infrastructure development. She has a non-executive portfolio on the boards of several major arts and culture organisations, which has included the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Theatre of Scotland. She currently chairs the board of The Royal Lyceum Theatre and is on the board of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Karen began her media career in 1993 at CIA MediaNetwork (now known as Wavemaker), working across a range of direct response accounts as a specialist direct response planner and buyer. Karen continued her career by joining Zenith Media in 1995 as a Senior Communications Planner, working on the prestigious BT account. Karen was quickly head-hunted by The Media Business Group to take up the role of Media Manager.
In October 1999, Karen was promoted to the Board of Directors of the newly merged MediaCom and The Media Business Group Board. In January 2003, Karen moved from the Business Director role that she had held for so long to become the Marketing Director of MediaCom.
In 2008, Karen became MediaCom’s Chief Operations Officer for EMEA. After 3 years strengthening the EMEA network, during which time MediaCom moved from the 5th to 3rd largest EMEA network media agency, Karen was promoted to CEO of the UK Office in January 2011, running over £1.3bn of media billings and over 1,200 people in 5 UK locations.
In January 2016, after serving as CEO for 5 years, Karen was promoted to Chairwoman of MediaCom UK & Ireland and is closely linked with clients such as Tesco, Coca-Cola and Sky. As of January 2018, Karen took on a newly created role as the first UK Country Manager for WPP, the world’s largest communications network, overseeing 11,000 people across a number of well-known operating brands such as Ogilvy, Grey, VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson. In this role Karen is responsible for delivering growth in WPP’s 2nd largest market, with revenue of $2 billion.
In 2019 Karen was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the UK Cabinet Office. Karen was appointed as CEO of GroupM U.K, the world’s leading media investment company, in April 2020 – an additional role to her WPP UK Country Manager responsibilities. In November 2020, Karen featured in one of the Top 100 Great Black Britons.
Isaac is a freelance writer, as well as a curator at the arts consultancy Artiq. Prior to this, he studied a BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, followed by roles at the British Journal of Photography and The Photographers’ Gallery. His words have been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Elephant Magazine, Galerie Peter Sellim, The Photographers’ Gallery, and The South London Gallery. He is particularly interested in documentary ethics, race, gender, class, and the body.
Tari Lang has had an international career advising blue-chip corporations and government leaders. She was CEO of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and Founding Partner of ReputationInc. Her expertise lies in reputation risk, scenario planning and infrastructure development. She has a non-executive portfolio on the boards of several major arts and culture organisations, which has included the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Theatre of Scotland. She currently chairs the board of The Royal Lyceum Theatre and is on the board of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Pardeep Duggal is a digital and transformation leader with experience across the energy, finance and banking and retail sectors. She loves to work in companies and sectors willing to build digital capacity to transform customer experience. Pardeep has extensive expertise in strategy, planning, marketing, brand development and online customer service.
One of very few BAME female leaders in the digital space, Pardeep led E.ON‘s customer transformation, joining in 2011 to build capability as part of the marketing leadership team and co-create a digitisation strategy with E.ON’s CEO.
Over five years Pardeep secured investment of more than £25m and drove savings of £36m. She transformed E.ON’s UK digital team from the smallest in marketing by size and budget, growing it to the largest with 60 colleagues. Pardeep’s legacy at E.ON is the UK business led E.ON’s digital capability globally, with online visitor numbers trebling to over 32m, making digital its primary service channel. Pardeep has a BSc in Business Management from Bradford University Business School – during which she won a scholarship from Bradford & Bingley Building Society – followed by an MSc in Marketing Management from Aston University. Pardeep has broad non executive experience. She currently serves on the Post Office Advisory Council, and previously served on the Board of Go ON UK, a digital inclusion charity chaired by Baroness (Martha) Lane-Fox.
Dr Paul Thompson is a leading authority on art and design having worked at the intersection of culture and education for three decades. Throughout his leadership of three international institutions – the Royal College of Art, the National Design Museum in New York, and the UK’s Design Museum – he has championed the best of design and fostered a positive environment for artists and innovators to flourish.
Dr Thompson has been Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, the internationally renowned art and design postgraduate university, since 2009. He has instigated strategic shifts in the academic vision of the institution, most notably, introducing scientific members of faculty (in computer science, materials science, and robotics) alongside the ‘traditional’ craft-based practitioners in glass, ceramic, print and painting.
Prior to the RCA, Dr Thompson was Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York (2001–9). Here, he expanded nationwide education services, instigated the ‘Design for the Other 90%’ research programme, and appointed the world’s first museum curator of socially responsible design.
Dr Thompson is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum; Board Member of Universities UK and Chair of Universities UK’s Specialists Institutions Forum; Chair of the Creative UK Creative Education & Careers Working Group; Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London; Executive Committee Member of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts for People and the Economy); and served on the Ashmolean Museum’s governing body at the University of Oxford from 2012-2018.
Neil oversees the West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC), formerly Marketing Birmingham, which was established in April 2017 to create new jobs, expand existing businesses and attract new investment and visitors to the region, aligned to the ambitions set out in the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Strategic Economic Plan. Under Neil’s leadership of Marketing Birmingham, the city secured the highest number of foreign direct investment projects on record, attracting significant new investments from companies such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Jaguar Land Rover and ASOS. The city’s visitor economy has also grown significantly in recent years, with Birmingham enjoying the largest growth in international visitors of any UK city outside London and the tourism sector now contributing £6.5 billion to the local economy, a 22% increase (£1.16bn) since 2013. Previously, Neil held similar roles in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a member of the British Tourism Industry Group; Chair of the Midlands Trade and Investment Group and is a former Governor and Board Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Pardeep Duggal is a digital and transformation leader with experience across the energy, finance and banking and retail sectors. She loves to work in companies and sectors willing to build digital capacity to transform customer experience. Pardeep has extensive expertise in strategy, planning, marketing, brand development and online customer service.
One of very few BAME female leaders in the digital space, Pardeep led E.ON‘s customer transformation, joining in 2011 to build capability as part of the marketing leadership team and co-create a digitisation strategy with E.ON’s CEO.
Over five years Pardeep secured investment of more than £25m and drove savings of £36m. She transformed E.ON’s UK digital team from the smallest in marketing by size and budget, growing it to the largest with 60 colleagues. Pardeep’s legacy at E.ON is the UK business led E.ON’s digital capability globally, with online visitor numbers trebling to over 32m, making digital its primary service channel. Pardeep has a BSc in Business Management from Bradford University Business School – during which she won a scholarship from Bradford & Bingley Building Society – followed by an MSc in Marketing Management from Aston University. Pardeep has broad non executive experience. She currently serves on the Post Office Advisory Council, and previously served on the Board of Go ON UK, a digital inclusion charity chaired by Baroness (Martha) Lane-Fox.
Dr Paul Thompson is a leading authority on art and design having worked at the intersection of culture and education for three decades. Throughout his leadership of three international institutions – the Royal College of Art, the National Design Museum in New York, and the UK’s Design Museum – he has championed the best of design and fostered a positive environment for artists and innovators to flourish.
Dr Thompson has been Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, the internationally renowned art and design postgraduate university, since 2009. He has instigated strategic shifts in the academic vision of the institution, most notably, introducing scientific members of faculty (in computer science, materials science, and robotics) alongside the ‘traditional’ craft-based practitioners in glass, ceramic, print and painting.
Prior to the RCA, Dr Thompson was Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York (2001–9). Here, he expanded nationwide education services, instigated the ‘Design for the Other 90%’ research programme, and appointed the world’s first museum curator of socially responsible design.
Dr Thompson is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum; Board Member of Universities UK and Chair of Universities UK’s Specialists Institutions Forum; Chair of the Creative UK Creative Education & Careers Working Group; Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London; Executive Committee Member of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts for People and the Economy); and served on the Ashmolean Museum’s governing body at the University of Oxford from 2012-2018.
Neil oversees the West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC), formerly Marketing Birmingham, which was established in April 2017 to create new jobs, expand existing businesses and attract new investment and visitors to the region, aligned to the ambitions set out in the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Strategic Economic Plan. Under Neil’s leadership of Marketing Birmingham, the city secured the highest number of foreign direct investment projects on record, attracting significant new investments from companies such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Jaguar Land Rover and ASOS. The city’s visitor economy has also grown significantly in recent years, with Birmingham enjoying the largest growth in international visitors of any UK city outside London and the tourism sector now contributing £6.5 billion to the local economy, a 22% increase (£1.16bn) since 2013. Previously, Neil held similar roles in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a member of the British Tourism Industry Group; Chair of the Midlands Trade and Investment Group and is a former Governor and Board Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Jude Kelly is the founder of WOW Foundation – Women of the World Festival to celebrate the achievements of Women and Girls. Starting at the Southbank Centre London in 2010 the Festival now takes place in 25 countries across 5 continents. In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Jude is the recipient two Olivier awards, a BASCA Gold Badge Award winner for contribution to music, a Southbank Award for her opera work, Red Magazine’s 2014 Creative Woman of the Year, CBIs 2016 First Woman Award winner for Tourism and Leisure and in 2017 won the inaugural Veuve Clicquot Woman of the Year Social Purpose Award. Kelly’s talk at a 2016 TED conference, Why women should tell the stories of humanity, has been viewed more than 1.2 million times as of July 2019. She has founded a range of arts institutions including the international artists space METAL. In September 2018, to mark Time Out magazine’s 50th anniversary, she was one of 50 people featured as helping to shape London’s cultural landscape and “make the city awesome”.
On the international stage, she has recently been honoured by the Finnish government in 2019 for her work with women and girls as well as being made a Knight of Denmark in 2018. She has also Chaired the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Before founding the WOW Foundation Jude was the Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre in London for 12 years. Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest Arts Institution and London’s 3rd biggest tourist attraction. In 1997, she was awarded an OBE for her services to theatre and in 2015 she was made a CBE for services to the Arts.
Gideon Spanier is an award-winning business journalist, speaker and event organiser with a focus on the creative industries. He joined the advertising magazine, Campaign, in 2015 after previously working for the London Evening Standard, The Times and CNN. He is an executive committee member of the Broadcasting Press Guild and is passionate about the power of creativity.
Jude Kelly is the founder of WOW Foundation – Women of the World Festival to celebrate the achievements of Women and Girls. Starting at the Southbank Centre London in 2010 the Festival now takes place in 25 countries across 5 continents. In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Jude is the recipient two Olivier awards, a BASCA Gold Badge Award winner for contribution to music, a Southbank Award for her opera work, Red Magazine’s 2014 Creative Woman of the Year, CBIs 2016 First Woman Award winner for Tourism and Leisure and in 2017 won the inaugural Veuve Clicquot Woman of the Year Social Purpose Award. Kelly’s talk at a 2016 TED conference, Why women should tell the stories of humanity, has been viewed more than 1.2 million times as of July 2019. She has founded a range of arts institutions including the international artists space METAL. In September 2018, to mark Time Out magazine’s 50th anniversary, she was one of 50 people featured as helping to shape London’s cultural landscape and “make the city awesome”.
On the international stage, she has recently been honoured by the Finnish government in 2019 for her work with women and girls as well as being made a Knight of Denmark in 2018. She has also Chaired the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Before founding the WOW Foundation Jude was the Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre in London for 12 years. Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest Arts Institution and London’s 3rd biggest tourist attraction. In 1997, she was awarded an OBE for her services to theatre and in 2015 she was made a CBE for services to the Arts.
Gideon Spanier is an award-winning business journalist, speaker and event organiser with a focus on the creative industries. He joined the advertising magazine, Campaign, in 2015 after previously working for the London Evening Standard, The Times and CNN. He is an executive committee member of the Broadcasting Press Guild and is passionate about the power of creativity.
Janet works with boards and their leadership teams to deliver strategic directives into commercial reality.
By focusing on helping businesses identify sources of value, developing action plans to ensure commercial value is harnessed and embedded into organizational culture ensures creative and profitable growth is achieved.
Business transformation requires a program that reaches across and down the business. Adopting a practical approach typically accelerates buy in, and delivers top and bottom line results. Programs include how you capture, measure and report value internally and externally. Building structured programs as an organization enables a long term commercial culture to be established and success follows.
Having held senior financial, marketing, logistics and commercial roles at Coca-Cola and Sony has enabled Janet to bring the voice of the client, their perspectives on business imperatives and wider business understanding into change programs and solutions Janet helps organizations develop.
Janet joined Grey London as CFO, becoming Chief Commercial Officer across Grey EMEA in 2012. Janet’s leadership was instrumental in driving 9 successive years of double-digit profitable and award winning growth at Grey.
Janet has a true generosity of spirit that nourishes talent. She drives a powerful agenda to broaden commercial understanding across creative businesses, by empowering people to play bigger roles and develop new ways to measure ROMI. In doing this, Janet has driven and enabled both the creativity and commercial performance of a number of Agencies, Production companies and client businesses to grow.
In 2015 Janet was awarded an IPA Fellowship in recognition of her game-changing work and support for the advertising industry.
In 2020 Janet became part time Executive Chairman of The Effectiveness Partnership.
Sir Peter Bazalgette has a distinguished career as a senior broadcasting executive. He is a non-executive board member of the Department for Education, Chair of the Royal College of Art and co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council, the joint forum between industry and government which helps the UK’s world-leading Creative Industries to flourish. Sir Peter has an extensive career in the Creative Industries, initially as an independent television producer and inventor of internationally successful television formats.
Sir Peter led the landmark Independent Review of the Creative Industries commissioned by the government which has shaped the Creative Industries’ policy landscape over the past few years, with recommendations being taken forward in the 2018 Sector Deal. He served as President of the Royal Television Society and Deputy Chair of the National Film & TV School. He is experienced in leadership roles, working together with government and industry, having co-founded the Creative Industries Federation, which joined forces with Creative England in 2020 to become Creative UK. Sir Peter is currently the Chair of ITV, was Chair of Arts Council England and until recently, was a Board member of UKRI.
Tanya Joseph heads the Corporate Affairs + Advisory practice at Hill+Knowlton Strategies which brings together corporate and public affairs, issues and crisis management, internal communications and behaviour change and diversity and inclusion teams. She has a wealth of communications experience having worked for the private, public and NGO sectors supporting them across communications.
Janet works with boards and their leadership teams to deliver strategic directives into commercial reality.
By focusing on helping businesses identify sources of value, developing action plans to ensure commercial value is harnessed and embedded into organizational culture ensures creative and profitable growth is achieved.
Business transformation requires a program that reaches across and down the business. Adopting a practical approach typically accelerates buy in, and delivers top and bottom line results. Programs include how you capture, measure and report value internally and externally. Building structured programs as an organization enables a long term commercial culture to be established and success follows.
Having held senior financial, marketing, logistics and commercial roles at Coca-Cola and Sony has enabled Janet to bring the voice of the client, their perspectives on business imperatives and wider business understanding into change programs and solutions Janet helps organizations develop.
Janet joined Grey London as CFO, becoming Chief Commercial Officer across Grey EMEA in 2012. Janet’s leadership was instrumental in driving 9 successive years of double-digit profitable and award winning growth at Grey.
Janet has a true generosity of spirit that nourishes talent. She drives a powerful agenda to broaden commercial understanding across creative businesses, by empowering people to play bigger roles and develop new ways to measure ROMI. In doing this, Janet has driven and enabled both the creativity and commercial performance of a number of Agencies, Production companies and client businesses to grow.
In 2015 Janet was awarded an IPA Fellowship in recognition of her game-changing work and support for the advertising industry.
In 2020 Janet became part time Executive Chairman of The Effectiveness Partnership.
Sir Peter Bazalgette has a distinguished career as a senior broadcasting executive. He is a non-executive board member of the Department for Education, Chair of the Royal College of Art and co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council, the joint forum between industry and government which helps the UK’s world-leading Creative Industries to flourish. Sir Peter has an extensive career in the Creative Industries, initially as an independent television producer and inventor of internationally successful television formats.
Sir Peter led the landmark Independent Review of the Creative Industries commissioned by the government which has shaped the Creative Industries’ policy landscape over the past few years, with recommendations being taken forward in the 2018 Sector Deal. He served as President of the Royal Television Society and Deputy Chair of the National Film & TV School. He is experienced in leadership roles, working together with government and industry, having co-founded the Creative Industries Federation, which joined forces with Creative England in 2020 to become Creative UK. Sir Peter is currently the Chair of ITV, was Chair of Arts Council England and until recently, was a Board member of UKRI.
Tanya Joseph heads the Corporate Affairs + Advisory practice at Hill+Knowlton Strategies which brings together corporate and public affairs, issues and crisis management, internal communications and behaviour change and diversity and inclusion teams. She has a wealth of communications experience having worked for the private, public and NGO sectors supporting them across communications.