CiR Friends
Our programme wouldn’t work without the support from our members and network.
We are extremely grateful for everyone’s time, insight and advice. A group of coaches are working closely with the residents. We believe that business and life coaching can make an incredible difference in the residents’ journeys, helping them focus on personal and business maturity. We also work with mentors. A mentor is generally someone who can act as a sounding board, a person with whom the creative can: sense check ideas, gain confidence, get insight and wisdom and access new networks. Numerous members of the Club who are industry specialists contribute by running workshops and lectures while others meet the residents for coffee and often facilitate informal introductions.
Judging Panel 2011
Music
- Vanessa Reed
- Executive Director of PRS Foundation
- Nick Sabine
- Director of Resident Advisor
- David Monyhan
- NME/UnCut
- Joanna Seguro
- Director of Lumin
Fashion
- Camilla Morton
- Fashion Writer
- Romilly Mason,
- Fashion and Style Editor, Browns
Visual Arts
- Stephen Beddo
- ArtQuest
- Margot Heller
- Director of The South London Gallery
- Hannah Barry
- Director of Hannah Barry Gallery
- Paul Hobson
- Director of Contemporary Art Society
Design
- Catherine McDermott
- Curating Contemporary Design
- Donna Loveday
- Head of Curatorial at The Design Museum
- Marcus Fairs
- Editor-in -chief Dezeen
Film & TV
- Stephen Woolley
- Producer
- Gemmar Spector
- Head of Distribution at Cinemax
- Maggie Ellis
- Head of Production at Film London
Dance
- Eddie Nixon
- Director, Theatre and Artist Development of The Place
- Theresa Beattie
- Dance Producer
- Betsy Gregory
- Artistic Director, Dance Umbrella
Theatre
- Nina Steiger
- Associate Director Soho Theatre
- Nia Janis
- Playful Productions
- Michael Berg
- Head of Events at The Hospital Club
- Michael McCabe
- Producer
- Lisa Spirling
- Director
Coaches
Matthias Gruendler
Matthias uses his creativity and business knowledge to help clients bring leadership and cultural identity to life in new ways that motivate employees, stakeholders and customers. He is passionate about building brands and sustainable leadership. His background and skills as an Artist, Team Leader, Partner and Board Member allow him to re-frame complex business concepts into simple pictures and language that people can relate to.
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Andrea Ingrisch
Andrea’s skills combine both a creative and analytical mind, her background includes many years of work at strategy house Boston Consulting Group, focused on organizational and process change, based at their Berlin office. Yet, in addition to other operational roles at AOL Europe and BMW, she is also an certified personal coach, holds a Diploma in Work and Organizational Psychology, alongside her continuing studies in art therapy. A German native, Andrea is now based in London, and supports Customer Faithful’s healthcare projects in Germany and UK.
Emily Man
Emily has been helping people develop their skills in work for ten years, focusing in particular on the creative industries in which she started her career. Her clients range from large media and insurance companies to individuals from across the creative and corporate worlds.
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Nick Allen
Nick is a business coach. He specialises in nurturing and supporting the development of young talent. He combines a background in business, psychology and environmental sciences to create his individual approach. His clients describe him as an “active coach who is always looking to challenge my assumptions and current thinking”.
Paulo Pisano
Paulo is a certified HR Professional and Executive Coach who has worked with senior executives from companies such as AOL, Motorola, IBM, BCG and the United Nations. His work is grounded on the distinctions of ontological and co-active coaching, internal martial arts and meditation.
Elle Harrison
Elle Harrison, the founder of Wild Courage, consults internationally as a Leadership Coach and workshop facilitator. Her passion is guiding individuals and organizations through change, finding purpose and meaning in their work and uncovering creative solutions to the challenges of our time. Her clients appreciate her ability to see behind the masks and help surface their intuition and wisdom.
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Margaret O’Keeffe
A former corporate strategist, Margaret has executive experience across four continents. Her background as a Managing Director, Board Member, Regional Director and Certified Professional Coach (CPCC) enables her to align organisational culture with commercial outcomes. She has particular expertise in leadership training, team coaching, branding and new product development.
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Alexander Kuilman
Alexander works as a consultant in conflict management and facilitator of transformation with international senior executives undergoing change in various service and manufacturing industries. Sample corporate clients include: BNP Paribas, ING, Standard & Poors, Amex and Mastercard International.
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Mentors & Contributors
Helen Starr
Helen Starr is the founder of the not-for-profit arts organisation FuseArts. She launched the seminal Cork Street gallery Entwistle almost 20 years ago where she showed among others Marlene Dumas, Jan Fabre and Lisa Yuskavage. She curated the only major exhibition of Marcel Duchamp in the UK for the past 50 years and currently lives with her family amidst an extensive collection of contemporary art and mid – century modern furniture.
Kevin Osborne
Kevin is the Founder and CEO of KO Management, a business incubator/consultancy. He was previously Founder/Director of Tribal Tree, an artistic development and outreach programme that organised music workshops in community centres, etc. He is now heavily involved with Cultural Quarter, a programme that aims to bring together Covent Garden’s main cultural institutions.
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Juliet Haygarth
Juliet started her career working in marketing and communications for The Samaritans, The British Red Cross and Barnardo’s. She then sold her soul to the corporate devil of advertising, leading accounts such as Virgin, Playstation and the Labour Party. Juliet used to be the Hospital Club’s Head of Marketing and Communications. She has just moved to become Managing Director at the Brothers & Sisters advertising agency.
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Amanda Murray
Amanda works with multinational organisations to identify and review senior leadership talent and develop their vision, missions and strategic plans. Her areas of specialisation are Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Presentation, Systems Thinking, Project Management, Change Management, Negotiation and Sales.
Tom Cowling
Tom specialises in intellectual property, media and entertainment law and commercial litigation with a particular expertise in trade mark, copyright and contractual matters and defamation. Tom has been involved in numerous reported trials and appearances in the High Court.
Lee McCormack
Lee graduated from Goldsmith’s in 1997. He is the author of the book “Designers Are Wankers” and the founder of the website of the same name and a speaker and mentor at several educational and commercial institutions including Coutts Asset Management training for young entrepreneurs. Lee is currently working on his project called Ovei, a cocoon-shaped work, a room of one’s own shaped to the curves of the body.
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Sydney Levinson
Sydney Levinson is a London based accountant who specialises in working with artists and creatives. He’s also heavily involved in the designer/maker scene – on the board of Cockpit Studios and Contemporary Applied Arts. Sydney is a specialist who understands the pressures and challenges of working in the Creative Industries.
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Michael Berg
Michael is Head of Events at The Hospital Club and produces over 1000 events each year. Highlights include Harvey Weinstein’s post BAFTA party, and the “Wicked” premiere party for Universal. Previously, he acted as a talent agent for over 10 years respresenting actors, writers, directors and composers in theatre, film and television. He has also produced numerous art exhibitions, concerts and award ceremonies including the UKC Hero Awards honouring Sir Elton John and Liza Minnelli.
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Carol Crabtree
Carol Crabtree set up Solar Management in 1993 and it has since grown to a close-knit team of client managers and assistants. Solar manages some of the most talented artists around today including Zero 7, David Holmes, Matthew Herbert, Josephine Oniyama and Four Tet and producers Nigel Godrich, Dan Grech Marguerat, Leo Abrahams and Sally Herbert. This has brought them a wealth of experience in producer and artist development, recording, touring, budgeting and all producer and artist contracts.
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Pamela Daniels
Pamela Daniels, uber eco fashion stylist and creative director of the pioneering Ethical Fashion has worked with the BBC, Living TV and the V&A, dressing industry professionals, musicians, performers and catwalk models. She is one of the UK’s leading ethical fashion stylists. She would stack your wardrobe full of gorgeous clothes that hurt no one and nothing in the making, she is simply the best!
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Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke is a theatrical director who has worked on a number of plays including a recent production of King John at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, starringJoe Milson (playing ‘the bastard’) and Richard McCabe (‘King John’). In 2007 Josie was appointed Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre in West London. She was also assistant director to Peter Gill in his premiere of The York Realist in 2002.
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Maggie Ellis
Maggie is responsible for the Production Unit of Film London, vertically integrating all of the agency’s commissioning of film and audiovisual production. She has particular responsibility for developing the challenging and innovative Micro Budget Digital Feature Film Fun.
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Kathleen Alder
Kathleen is the founder and director of WildKat PR, a creative young PR company specializing in classical music. Current clients include among others the classical music hub Dilettante, The Forge Venue in Camden and conductor Charles Hazlewood. Before creating her own company, Kat worked for Universal Classics, Decca and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With the latter, she participated in the creation of El Sistema in Venezuela alongside Claudio Abbado and Gustavo Dudamel.
Dan Ford
As one of the directors and producers of the Mercury Prize, Dan has wide-ranging knowledge and experience of the music industry. His passions include art, cinema and of course music.
Mark Prescott
Mark Prescott was for five years Head of Cultural Campaigns at the Mayor’s Office at the Greater London Authority a role that saw him work across London’s cultural and creative sectors devising multi disciplinary campaigns, initiatives and festivals. Currently a Clore Fellow, Mark is producing a digital public art piece for Unilever, developing a music education project with MIT Media Lab and as an associate of the LSE Cities programme is researching festivals, culture and the city.
Justin Cook
Aiming to unite the UK digital sector to become global powerhouse as chairman of BIMA, which is the only independent industry association dedicated to celebrating and encouraging creativity in the digital industry. His company Fortune Cookie are 80 strong, and include some of the great talent from the digital industry, with operations in Paris and Abu Dhabi.
Kati Howe
Kati joins the philanthropy department as a freelance curator and creative project manager to assist Lolo in the launch of CiR 2011. With a background in design management of global luxury brands, Kati joins us having recently completed an MA in curating contemporary design at Kingston University and The Design Museum. As well as promoting next year’s programmes with candidates, institutions and industry leaders alike, Kati is also working on a project to forge links with emerging designers in Korea and the UK and has just been selected for a place on the Cultural Leadership programme; The Independents, run by Battersea Arts Centre. And, with a love of audiovisual environments, look out for immersive events popping up soon at the club.
Anna Castleton
Anne works at University of the Arts London, on the development and implementation of internal and external communications, including e-briefing, intranet news, branding, press support of the Arts Gallery and special communications projects. Anna Studied at Manchester University and graduated from the Manchester Business School with an MA in International Business, she later received a CIPR diploma from the Chatered Institure of Public Relations.
Katie Dailey
Katie is a freelance online editor and features writier, he has experience as a writer and editor for a range of publications, (including The Times and Time Out) brands (including Boden, Lee Jeans and Topshop), and websites (including ELLEuk.com). Katie currently has ongoing freelance work as Online Editor at John Brown Media across publications, where she both devises ways to re-imagine print editorial into online content, and creates new content and editorial concepts online.
Marine de Bouchony
The founder M/B and the Senior designer at Victoria and Albert Museum, the focus of Marines work is with cultural institutions and individuals, often for museums and galleries, events, exhibitions, publishing and editoria. After completing her training in New York, Marine worked as a freelance graphic designer in Paris. She has experience in identities, book design and fashion magazines. For the past four years Marine has been working as senior graphic designer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is esponsible for the marketing campaign and exhibition design on shows of numerous companies.
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Catherine Demoisy
Head of Annual Fundraising & Alumni Relations, Royal College of Art
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E/ catherine.demoisy@rca.ac.uk
Maggie Ellis
Maggie is responsible for the production and talent development of Film London, vertically integrating all of the agency’s commissioning of film and training through production. She has responsibility for managing the challenging and innovative micro-budget feature film fund, as well as FLAMIN.
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Fiona Furness
Space Studios, Studios Manager
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Nick Fitzherbert
Nick applies the Rules of Magic to business communication – combining 20 years experience as a PR consultant with additional skills that he has learnt and developed as a member of The Magic Circle.
The people he coaches learn to direct attention, persuade and convince – with a mix of business presentations and specially created magic tricks. Nick also give talks to industry and training organisations and the media – inc. Chris Evans, Working Lunch, Guardian and Management Today.
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Rukhsana Jahangir
Independent Curator.
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Sabita Kumari-Dass
Sabita is the director and founder at Protégé DNA Ltd and a producer at Central Sait Martins college. In addition she is a communications executive to the Director of Television at the BBC and an editorial executive for 4leanring at channel 4. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a B Sc Econ, Sociology & Economics.
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Claudie Plen
Claudie started her career in academic publishing, gaining senior management experience across production, marketing and editorial before setting up her first coaching and training business in 2003. She has seven years experience as a facilitator, trainer, and executive coach to CEO and board/senior management level. Her clients include a wide range of creative agencies, and organisations including Creative and Cultural Skills, English Heritage, The Film Council and The British Library. She is regularly asked to speak on the subject of building networks to enable partnership, collaboration and knowledge sharing, and to teach networking strategy in a variety of environments. Claudie now specialises in leadership development, vision and strategy facilitation, coaching and training.
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Tania Popeau
Royal Holloway University & HSS Outreach officer The Light Tag Project.
E/ tanya.popeau@rhul.ac.uk
Anna Raad
Photographer
E/ annaraad@yahoo.com
Delphine Reynaud
Development Director, Courvoisier The Future 500.
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