Trustees & Advisory Board
Our Trustees are James Joseph, Veronica Bradbury M.B.E., Adarsha Kelly, Corinne Oulton and Tanya Russell.
TRUSTEES
Veronica Bradbury M.B.E.
Head of Allfarthing Primary School in Wandsworth
Ofted report 2008 “Outstanding School”
James Joseph
James Joseph an artist manager and has been hugely influential in the creation of major label jazz artists from the UK (Jason Rebello, Cleveland Watkiss and his brother, Julian), something that until the 1980’s, with only a few exceptions, was unprecedented. He has also played a key role in guiding the careers of British saxophonists Steve Williamson and Courtney Pine, as well as global artists including Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson.
James’s work in the music business extends into more broad-based projects. He is a consultant for BBC Worldwide and has co-produced many television and radio series and shows for the BBC and ITV. He sits on various boards including the PRS Foundation and The Lottery. He has also executive-produced many productions for film and latterly for the stage.
Recently James has been working with choreographer Sheron Wray whose company, JazzXchange are now resident at the Royal Opera House commissioning the greatest composers for collaboration including Julian Joseph and Wynton Marsalis. Vocal sensation Mica Paris has joined the James Joseph fold.
Adarsha Kelly
Having grown up in a housing scheme in Glasgow which is still in the bottom 10 percent in terms of multiple deprivation in the UK, I am a acutely aware of the waste of creative potential among children and young people. I see the World Heart Beat Music Academy as an innovative and joyful way of releasing that potential among London’s underprivileged and under appreciated children and young people.
Corinne Oulton
Designer — Baskerville design company
Tanya Russell
Tanya was trained as a sculptor by her parents Edwin Russell and Lorne McKean. During and after the 7 year apprenticeship, Tanya gained highly acclaimed public and private commissions. “I love art passionately as a way of distilling and magnifying the essential qualities and ideas of our lives.” Tanya founded the Art Academy in 2000 to attempt to give the best to students, artists and their audiences
Tanya is the Founder and Principal of The Art Academy.
Our aim is to develop artists with a depth of vision, a passion for exploration, creative mastery, and give our students the skills to enable them to reach their full potential and be successful in the art world. Our role is to facilitate this discovery.
Art can be a powerful force for community cohesion, social engagement, skills development, and urban regeneration. The Art Academy is committed to a programme of outreach and community art activities, mainly focused on our local boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth. Our Articulate programme, a new visual-arts based programme working with vulnerable and ‘at risk’ young people.
This is in the form of a series of visual arts workshops, with the aim of developing not only creativity but also general life skills, resulting in tangible benefits for the participating young people.
In the years since founding and running an arts charity myself, I have become more and more convinced of the imperative need to find activities and pursuits that unite and harmonize our diverse young, communities and also give opportunities to young people who find themselves marginalized from society or are struggling within the education systems. I see the World Heart Beat Music Academy being able to help young people pursue creative activities, either as a career alternative or simply as an invaluable way of generating confidence and wider life skills. The World Heart Beat Academy offers this in a most joyful, inspiring and unified way.
ADVISORY BOARD
Christina Barrineau
Christina Barrineau is an international advisor on development, specializing in the African and Asian regions. She is currently the Campaign Manager for United Against Malaria, a campaign that will use the popularity of football to catalyze the achievement of the 2010 malaria goals in a Africa. Prior to this she led a number of initiatives for Malaria No More and led the 2008 United Nations MDG Malaria Summit. She was the Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium comprising Harvard, Yale and New York University from 2006 to 2008; and the Director of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit from 2003 to 2006. Before this she established and managed the Global Network for Banking Innovation in Microfinance for Women’s World Banking (WWB) for five years. Christina started her career as an international advisor and work with the national governments of Canada, Bulgaria, China, Thailand, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Kenya, Benin, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Jordan and Angola for eleven years. She has worked with Dr. Jeffery Sachs, Sir Mark Malloch Brown, and Dr. Stanley Fischer on issues specific to eradicating poverty. She has pioneered new thinking on pension plans for the poor and asset building models for informal sector workers. Christina is a well known public speaker, holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia and is a Canadian national.
Adrian Lajtha
Adrian Lajtha is Accenture’s chief leadership officer. In this role he has primary responsibility for Accenture’s leadership development program, which focuses on building the leadership capabilities of Accenture’s more than 11,000 senior executives and senior managers globally, and is responsible for the development of and succession planning for the company’s top 200 executives. Considered to be Accenture’s next generation of leaders, Mr. Lajtha also oversees Accenture’s corporate citizenship initiatives globally and is a member of Accenture’s Executive Leadership Team.
Shahid M Malik
Shahid M. Malik was born in October 1954 in Lahore, Pakistan. One of eight siblings, Shahid grew up in the face of working class life. The harsh reality of life in Pakistan in his early years gave him the motivation to achieve great things. He began to write articles for a national newspaper by the age of 15. The following year was to change his life. He wrote a strong article promoting the freedoms and liberty of society, which shook the social framework of rigid Pakistani society. The article started a national debate on freedom and liberty with his article being the focal point of debate in the national assembly of 1970. Despite a successful career ahead of him as a journalist, he left Pakistan for the United Kingdom the very same year, with his dream to travel the world. He continued to write freelance articles for various local and regional papers and soon took up a job at British Airways, Heathrow. Rising within the ranks of British Airways he quickly became a networker. Once described by MD of Prime TV as “the greatest networker in the West”. His interest and relationship within international politics naturally developed over the years and he has established himself as a recognised personality and a great supporter of Human rights. He was the first to establish open dialogue between House of Lords and President Musharraf of Pakistan urging him to allow for civil rights of the people.
Shahid has a lengthy relationship with the Indian Cinema Industry and himself founded and established Asianoutlook.com, which explores content from within and outside of the Asian community in order to provide a bridge for intergration. Shahid is also managining director of Peninsula Pictures Ltd.
James Ware
Educated at St Johns College, Oxford — BA (Jurisprudence) — he qualified as a Solicitor, with Honours. After initial legal experience in banking and international tax planning, he left the City to specialize in copyright law and the entertainment industry, entering into private practice initially on his own and then in partnership with James Saunders. Clients included Virgin Records, Rough Trade Records, Marc Bolan, Joe Strummer and the 1O1ers (The Clash), Aswad and a variety of other players in the music industry at the time. 2005 saw him set up his own new firm in the form of a limited liability partnership, James Ware LLP. The firm’s principal speciality is copyright and the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights and ideas.
The practice includes music and literary publishing, musicals and other theatrical promotions, independent record companies and producers, specialist rights in the security industries, photographic images, a wide range of performing artists, authors, composers, agents and managers, broadcasters and television production companies, software companies, theatrical entrepreneurs and producers.
Musical clients include bands and performers across a wide range of genres from Deep Purple and Madness to classical composers and performers.
PIONEER ADVISOR
Charlie Gillett
Charles Gillett, radio presenter, author and music publisher.
Few people can have opened so many ears to such a variety of music over the last four decades as Charlie Gillett. Charlie became a central figure in drawing together the confluence of international sounds that became known, to the benefit of many artists whose work might otherwise have remained in obscurity, as World Music. His discoveries were numerous, from Johnnie Allen’s Cajun version of Chuck Berry’s Promised Land in the early 1970s, through Youssou N’Dour and Salif Keita to Mariza, the young singer of Portuguese fado music who went from appearances on Charlie’s show in 2001 to sellout concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Charlie passed away on 17th March 10.