Board Members
Chairman - Sandy Orr, OBE
Sandy Orr is currently Co Founder, Owner and Executive Chairman of Mint Hotels (formerly City Inn Limited), a multiple award winning private hotel group trading and developing 2,800 rooms in the UK and Holland. Sandy is also Joint Chairman and Co Owner of Harviestoun Brewery which has won top British awards (Shiehallion and Bitter & Twisted and OlaDhu) and has been Chair of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith from 2002.
Sandy was formerly Founder Director of Macdonald Hotels Limited, Chairman at Radio Forth, Director at Scottish Radio Holdings plc (and Chair of Audit Committee), Co-Chair and Owner of Caledonian Brewery (Deuchars), Founder of Heriot Hotels, Joint Managing Director of Caledonian Bank Limited. He has also developed and founded several new hotels and commercial buildings for national and international companies.
Sandy has had extensive involvement in the arts as Chairman of the Music Committee of the Scottish Arts Council, Chairman of Scottish Opera, Co Founder and Originator of the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Director of the National Opera Studio and Chairman, Mariinsky Theatre Trust.
His professional career started as a Solicitor (MA LLB WS) where he practiced in the Scottish Highlands, then Edinburgh (Senior Partner), and as a Banker and Corporate Financier and Property Developer.
Sandy was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to the Hospitality Industry.
Josette Bushell-Mingo, OBE
Josette’s directing, teaching and acting career now spans over 25 years. She is the recipient of several awards including, most recently an OBE for her Contribution to the Arts.
Josette is also a recipient of an AoC, (Association of Colleges) Gold Award, and a NESTA Fellow. She received The Southbank and Decibel Award for Diversity 2005, Woman of the Year Craymer Award 2004 and has been nominated twice for the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award, both as an actress and a director. She has also been nominated three times - and won twice - the TMA Award for Best Actress.
Her performance work includes the Royal National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has also worked with Theatre du Complicité, The People Show, Young Vic Theatre and performed the part of Rafiki in the original company for the world acclaimed The LION KING, West End.
Josette’s directing work includes productions at the Young Vic, the RSC, in the West End and for Liverpool Capital of Culture and an opera at the Royal Opera, Stockholm. Josette is the Artistic Director of PUSH - a black arts event, based in London. She is currently Artistic Director of The National Deaf Theatre of Sweden – TYST TEATER.
Josette is chairman of Cinemafrica - Sweden’s biggest film and culture organisation, and Artistic Director for TRYKK - Sweden’s partner organisation for PUSH.
Martin Duncan
Martin Duncan is a leading director of opera, theatre and musical theatre, a writer, composer and choreographer.
Martin was previously Artistic Director at the Nottingham Playhouse and then at Chichester Festival Theatre and has directed for many of the worlds leading opera houses and theatres. He is currently Associate Artistic Adviser for the Cultural Olympics.
Martin was born in London and trained as a stage manager at The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
He first joined Philip Hedley’s ensemble at the Lincoln Theatre Royal in 1968 as an Assistant Stage Manager – and within two months found himself onstage in Mike Alfreds’ production of "The Government Inspector".
For the following 20 years, he has shared his time between acting and composing music – working in the acting ensembles of the Northcott Theatre Exeter, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, the Crucible Theatre Sheffield (where, in 1988, he was appointed an Associate Artist) and at repertory theatres all round the UK. He also appeared in the West End, on film and TV. In 1990, Opera North invited him to direct his first opera.
Ann Fossey
Ann is currently Chair of Good Relations, a leading public relations agency and part of the Bell Pottinger Group.
Ann has over 30 years experience in public relations. She joined Good Relations in 1988 to head the consumer division. In 2000 Ann was promoted to Managing Director and became Chairman in 2007. Her communication experience is wide ranging. From 1983-85, she ran the public relations division of Brompton, a design and promotions company (subsidiary of Lowe Howard Spink) and between 1971 and 1983 she was a Director of Paul Winner Marketing Communications where she built up a successful consumer division.
During this time Ann orchestrated brand building campaigns for Levis, Yardley Cosmetics, Royal Doulton Tableware and Sheaffer.
At Good Relations Ann has led an impressive list of clients including the award winning Tesco Computer for Schools campaign, Tesco SchoolNet 2000, British Meat. Nescafe, Royal Mint, Pantene and Mothercare.
An avid supporter of training for the public relations industry, Ann is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Relations, a member of the Marketing Society and a mentor for Dress For Success, a charity promoting the economic independence of disadvantaged women.
Anupam Ganguli
Anupam Ganguli is a chartered accountant and MBA, whose professional career spans Price Waterhouse Coopers, HSBC, the BBC and KPMG. His previous role was Director of Finance at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Until 2008 he was deputy chair of Arts Council England's London regional council and a council member since 2002. He was a member of the Arts Council's Stabilisation and Recovery advisory panel
He has undertaken voluntary work in the arts for a number of organisations including the Gate Theatre, the Florence Trust and Tamasha Theatre Company. He was previously a trustee of the Almeida Theatre, the Chisenhale Gallery, Tara Arts, David Glass Ensemble and the Half Moon Young People's Theatre and a governor of Central School of Ballet. He is currently a governor of the University of Westminster, a trustee of the Runnymede Trust and a non-trustee member of the audit committee of Historic Royal Palaces.
Anupam has been mentor to a number of senior people in the arts and not-for-profit sector. He has been awarded the Whitbread Employee Volunteer of the Year for voluntary work in the arts. Anupam also has a degree in Indian music’.
Andrew Haigh
Andrew leads the Entrepreneurs Group, the largest business segments at Coutts with 20,000 clients in the UK. He also leads Coutts’ increasing involvement in Social Enterprise.
He joined Coutts in 2001 and has recently returned from creating a private bank in China from scratch.
He began his career as an investment banker in London and New York before moving to be finance director of NatWest’s International Businesses Division in 1993. After 3 years running banking businesses offshore he returned to New York in 1999 for 2 years to act as country head for the NatWest Group’s US businesses.
Andrew is also active in supporting the arts and in addition to Mountview is on the boards of the Photographers Gallery and the Chisenhale Gallery as well as the Individual Donors Committee of the Almeida Theatre.
Pam Morris-Sykes
Pam is currently Financial Controller at Africa matters Ltd.
Pam is a Chartered Accountant with significant experience of companies of all sizes.
Having graduated in Chemistry from York University, Pam qualified in London with Deloitte & Touche and also became a member of the Institute of Taxation.
Pamela spent 11 years in the profession, specialising in UK and international corporate tax. She then moved into industry to help to set up a new oil and gas division of a major conglomerate and subsequently became co-founder of a UK oil company.
In addition to her work with Africa Matters Limited, Pamela currently advises small businesses on general financial issues.
Paul Roberts, OBE
Paul Roberts is currently Chair of the trustees for Creativity, Culture and Education.
A graduate in Philosophy and Mathematics, a teacher and schools inspector, Paul Roberts was Director of Education in Nottingham and subsequently in Haringey leading the Government intervention in Haringey Council. He was a Director of Capita Strategic Education Services before joining the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for local government.
At IDeA he was Director of Strategy and subsequently Managing Director, overseeing the organization’s £50m programmes of work based on knowledge management, peer review and support for local authority elected members.
As author of the joint DfES/DCMS report “Nurturing Creativity in Young People”, Paul was adviser to government Ministers on the development of the cultural offer for young people and is now chair of the trustees for Creativity, Culture and Education (www.cceengland.org) as well as holding board positions with Nottingham Contemporary, the Public Services Innovation Laboratory Board at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the Innovation Unit and the Greenwood Trust.
Paul is a FRSA and was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to Education and the Creative Industries.
Patrick Spottiswoode
Patrick is currently Director, Globe Education.
Patrick Spottiswoode joined Shakespeare’s Globe in 1984 and became founding Director, Globe Education in 1989. Globe Education now engages 23 full-time staff, over 60 freelance practitioners and welcomes over 100,000 people a year of all ages and nationalities for workshops, projects, events and courses. In 1995 Patrick initiated a 30 year project to stage readings and record all surviving plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. In 2000 he established the first King’s/Globe MA in Shakespeare Studies. Globe Education provides MA modules for over 100 students and a one year BFA acting programme. In 2006 Patrick established the annual Sam Wanamaker Festival with the Conference of Drama Schools. He was awarded the President’s Medal by the CDS in 2007. Globe Education presents an annual professional production created especially for over 18,000 young people who all receive free tickets. Patrick has co-directed academic conferences at the Globe, in Italy and the USA. In 2007 Patrick originated the annual publication of the Globe Folio facsimiles and commissioned Goethe on Shakespeare, published in 2010. In 2011, he will be awarded an Honorary PhD by Warwick University and an Honorary Fellowship from King’s College London. He is currently the President of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America.
