Biographies

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
Sir Torquil Norman, CBE 
Torquil studied Law and Economics at Cambridge and Harvard. He went on to work as a banker for over 10 years at JP Morgan and Company in New York and at Philip Hill, Higginson Erlanger’s in London, followed by a further five years as General Manager of Mineral Separation Ltd, a large industrial holding company. In 1973 he became Chief Executive of a toy manufacturing company, Berwick Timpo Ltd and, between 1980 and 1996, founded and became Executive Chairman of the hugely successful, Bluebird Toys plc, which made sales of nearly £100m and a cash balance of £35m within 12 years. He has been Chairman and President of the British Toy and Hobby Manufacturer’s Association, Chairman of the Trustees of Rendcomb College, Trustee of the Tavistock Clinic Foundation and Trustee of the Fleet Air Arm Museum. In 1996 he founded the Norman Trust, a charity for children and young people. After retiring from Bluebird Toys plc he purchased the Roundhouse, Camden in 1996. He was awarded the CBE in 2002. 

VICE PRESIDENT
Lloyd Dorfman, CBE
Lloyd Dorfman, Founder and Chairman of the Travelex Group, is a 59-year-old Londoner.  He started his own currency exchange business in 1976 from one small shop in central London, after briefly sampling the bar and investment banking. In March 2001 Travelex acquired Thomas Cook’s Global & Financial Services business for £440m. Today, Travelex is the world’s largest foreign exchange and business payments specialist. In 2001 Lloyd won the Consumer Business Category in the UK “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards sponsored by Ernst & Young, Citibank and The Times.  In 2002 he received the British American Chamber of Commerce’s UK Entrepreneurial Award, and the Institute of Economic Affairs’ Free Enterprise Award. He was named as “2007 Honorary Australian of the Year” in the U.K and in June 2008, he was appointed CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours list for services to business and charity. He is a Non-Executive Director of M&C Saatchi plc, Deputy Chairman of Monitor Quest Ltd, a Governor of St Paul’s School in London, a Director of the Royal National Theatre, a Trustee of the Prince’s Trust, and an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford. Lloyd Dorfman was educated at St Paul’s School, and did not go to university. He is married with three children, two grandchildren, and lives in London. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Christopher Satterthwaite (Chair)
Christopher began his commercial career as a graduate trainee at HJ Heinz. He’s been part of three different kinds of marketing communication agencies: IMP 1981-93, then the UK’s largest sales promotion and direct marketing agency; HHCL & Partners 1993-2000, Campaign’s ‘Advertising Agency of the Decade’; and Bell Pottinger 2000-02, the UK’s leading public relations agency. In 2002, he was appointed Chief Executive of Chime Communications PLC, the holding company for the UK's number one public relations group, Bell Pottinger. He is senior independent director of Centaur Media, and was Chairman of the Marketing Society, 2007-09.

Nicholas Allott 
Managing Director of the Cameron Mackintosh Group of Companies, which includes an international theatrical production division and a group of seven West End theatres. He is also the Chair of the Soho Theatre, the Managing Trustee of the Mackintosh Foundation (a grant giving organization), a Trustee of the Oxford School of Drama, and is on the Advisory Boards of Julie’s Bicycle and Tickets for Troops. He is a member of the Cultural Olympiad Board, the Theatres Trust and has been a Trustee of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts for twenty years. 

Anthony Blackstock 
Anthony is a Chartered Accountant who has spent his career in the cultural sector. He has served as Finance Director of the Arts Council, the National Theatre and the British Museum. Since 2000 he has been in practice and has served clients in the cultural and higher education sectors, including Arts Council England, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, South Bank Centre, Tate, Chichester Festival Theatre and Trinity Laban. Over the past decade he has worked on major construction projects. 

Kentake Chinyelu-Hope 
Kentaké joined the National Council in October 2005. She is a Creative Producer and founder of Momi Inc, a production and development agency for hip hop in the UK. She began her career as a youth worker in the London boroughs of Hackney and Newham and continued as a Youth Arts Development worker from 1994. In 2000 she initiated and developed the London Hip Hop Festival and established the Brighton Hip Hop Festival in 2004. She received a NESTA Cultural Leadership Award in 2006 and undertook her placement at the Singapore Science Centre. She explored the cultural impact of infocomms on modern society including online communities, virtual reality, gaming and digital storage and media. Kentaké is based in Brighton and has been a member of the South East Regional Arts Council since 2003. 

Marcus Davey 
Marcus, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Roundhouse, studied at Dartington College of Arts. Soon after completing his degree he became the Administrator of Dartington International Summer School and the Arts Manager for Dartington Hall Trust. In 1995 he was appointed Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, where he created a new contemporary dance festival and developed a wide ranging creative education programme. He was appointed Chief Executive of The Roundhouse Trust in 1999. Voluntary positions have included Chair of the PRS for Music Foundation (including Chair of Judges for the New Music Award), Chair of the Hackney Youth Orchestras Trust, a founder Trustee of People United and an Advisory Board member of the Clore Leadership Foundation. He's currently Chair of the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, a Trustee of the Longplayer Trust, a member of the Olympic Park Public Realm Commissioning Committee and Chair of the Brook Street Band Trust. He joined the Board of Arts Council London in 2011.

Tony Elliott 
Tony founded Time Out in 1968 with £70, during the summer break from Keele University. The Time Out Group now has an annual turnover of over £40m. Time Out London and Time Out New York together with an extensive guidebook division and website have established the Time Out brand worldwide. Time Out Chicago launched as a weekly in 2005. Licensed editions of Time Out are currently published in Beijing and Shanghai, Cyprus, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Istanbul, Mexico City, Mumbai, Moscow and St Petersburgh, and Tel Aviv. Annual Time Out visitors’ guides are published under license in Buenos Aires, Bahrain, Cape Town, and Doha. Tony didn’t finish his university course and has never been employed by anyone. He is the sole shareholder of the UK company, Time Out Group Ltd. 

Tim Hailstone
The sale, in January 2007 to Deutsche Post, of The Stationery Office, where Tim Hailstone was CEO and subsequently Executive Chairman brought to a close a 35 year career in the publishing industry. Tim held senior positions in companies such as Octopus Publishing (Managing Director 1986-1987), Virgin Publishing (Managing Director 1988-1990), Times Mirror International Publishing (President 1991-1996) and Harcourt International (Chairman 1996-1999). As an entrepreneur, he founded Gower Medical and First Consult, which are now both now part of Reed Elsevier. In recent years Tim has been a senior advisor to Apax Partners and Chairman of Dr Foster, a leading independent health research business. He currently serves on the boards of a number of companies in media, travel and healthcare, in which he is an investor.

Alan Hodson 
Alan studied Mathematics at Oxford and joined Rowe & Pitman (ultimately part of UBS) in 1984, as a graduate trainee. He initially specialised in Asian Equities, and then held a succession of management roles, living in Hong Kong, New York and London. He eventually became the Global Head of Equities and a member of the Executive Committee of UBS Investment Bank. He was also a member of the UBS AG Group Managing Board. Alan left UBS in 2005 and is now involved with a number of charitable and business interests, including Deputy Chairman of the Beacon Fellowship Trust, a member of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Advisory Board, Chairman of the Merrill Lynch Commodities Income Investment Trust, a partner in Mill Street Asset Management, a member of the Norges Bank Investment Management Advisory Board and a Director of SRM Global Ltd. 

Wayne McGregor 
Wayne is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He’s the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London; Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006) and the government’s first Youth Dance Champion (appointed 2008). Wayne is also a frequent creator of new work for La Scala, Milan, Paris Opera Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and English National Ballet; as well as movement director for theatre and film (including, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). 

Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
Jenny was educated at Hemel Hempstead Grammar School and the University of York. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1972 as Casting Director, a post she held until 1977, when she became Planning Controller. She left the RSC in 1984 to become a Director of Marmont Management Limited, a theatrical agency, where she represented writers, directors and designers. In 1986 the RSC invited her to return as Senior Administrator and she was subsequently appointed Associate Producer, before becoming Executive Director of the National Theatre in 1990, a post she held until 1996. She was briefly Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in 1997, before returning to the National Theatre to serve a further term as Executive Director until 2002. She was Principal of Guildhall School of Music and Drama until July 2003 and is now an independent consultant. She was created a life peer in 1999. She was a founder Trustee of NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) 1998-2005, and currently serves on the Boards of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the National Opera Studio, Southbank Sinfonia, The Theatres Trust, The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Welsh National Opera and the Almeida Theatre. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jenny holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of York, Middlesex and City University. She’s an Honorary Member of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has an Honorary Fellowship from Goldsmiths College, University of London. 

Deborah Meaden 
Deborah is a born entrepreneur and is always on the lookout for business opportunities to which she can add value or which hold a particular interest to her. Having left school after O-Levels she studied at business college and, following graduation, worked as a sales room model in a fashion house for three months before moving to Italy. At the age of 19, she launched her own glass and ceramics import company supplying stores like Harvey Nichols. She then took on a franchise for Italian footwear and clothing company Stefanel, one of the first in the UK. She then embarked on a number of other business ventures, including running a prize bingo concession at Butlins. With several successful businesses in the leisure and retail sector under her belt, Deborah decided to take up a position in the family amusement arcade business. Starting on the shop floor she worked her way up to Operations Director before moving across into the holiday park side of the business, Weststar Holidays. Within two years she had been promoted to Managing Director and grew the company from one to five holiday parks, providing high-quality family holidays for over 150,000 people per year. In 1999 Deborah undertook a management buyout and took over the business. ‘Highly-geared but happy to be in control’ she worked hard to establish Weststar as the best in the marketplace while capitalising on her flare for marketing. Choosing to sell two parks during this time, the company was gradually transformed into ‘a lean, mean fighting machine’. Deborah’s long-term plan had been to grow the business and a period of substantial investment marked the early years of TGGL, her newly formed group. With three prime sites achieving high occupancy rates in a fragmented marketplace, Weststar soon found itself the target of several takeover approaches. In 2005 she finally sold the company (a deal worth £33m) while retaining a 23% stake and an active role within the firm. She sold her remaining stake in the business when Weststar was sold to Parkdean Holidays for £83m. After selling Weststar she made her first investment in a market research company, reflecting her interest and experience in marketing, brands and communication. 

Baroness Morris of Yardley 
Estelle is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. She was briefly a member of the Cabinet. A graduate of the University of Warwick, she was a teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer School in Coventry and a member of Warwick District Council, 1979-91. She was elected to Parliament in 1992 for Birmingham Yardley, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. She became a minister in the Department for Education and Employment in 1997 and was promoted to Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 2001. She resigned her post in October 2002, then rejoined the government in 2003 as Minister for the Arts in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. She stepped down from the government and as a Member of Parliament at the 2005 general election. In 2005 she was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sunderland, Chair of the Children’s Workforce Development Council, and it was announced that she would succeed Lady Kennedy of The Shaws as President of the National Children's Bureau. In the same year, she was created a life peer. Estelle was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Education by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007, in recognition of her contribution to education throughout a lifelong career as a dedicated teacher and politician with an education portfolio that has spanned ten years. 

Caspar Norman 
Caspar was born, educated and grew up in London. He enjoyed a background in performance art as a teenager, appearing as a mime artist in London and Paris and on television, as an actor on radio and in the feature film Betrayal. He took two degrees: in Philosophy and Political Science (UEA, Norwich) and a Masters in Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy (Thesis on Nuclear Weapons Strategy and Theory) at the University of Bristol. Between these degrees he worked as a copywriter for TBWA/Holmes Knight Ritchie. He then worked for a foreign affairs think-tank and lobbying group, concentrating on nuclear and other weapons proliferation control and conflict management in, primarily, Bosnia and with national and cross-national organisations. In 1995 he helped set up a property insurance company based in Scotland, which continues today. At the beginning of 1997 Caspar left to work on the Roundhouse, becoming a Trustee of the Norman Trust. In 1998 he was a founding trustee of the Roundhouse Trust, which took over the management of the building in 2000. He carried on his earlier work as a member of the Steering Committee, and became Events Director. Fulfilling a long-standing commitment, Caspar stepped down as an Executive a short period after the Roundhouse re-opened in 2006. He has remained a Trustee of the Roundhouse Trust, the Norman Trust and the Norman Trust Endowment. He’s currently taking a sabbatical with his family and writing a book, and remains committed to the Roundhouse and its work. 

Jesse Norman MP 
Jesse is the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. He was selected as a parliamentary candidate in 2006, since when he’s campaigned actively on key local issues, fighting against the loss of public services and for a stronger voice for Herefordshire in Whitehall and Westminster. Among other things, he acts as county-wide co-ordinator of the Herefordshire Save Our Post Offices campaign, and set up SchoolsFirst.org.uk as a resource to help all those fighting school closures. He is a Trustee of the Kindle Centre in South Wye in Hereford City, and of the Friends of St Mary's in Ross-on-Wye. Jesse was educated at Oxford University, and has a Masters and PhD from University College London. A highly experienced businessman, he was a Director of Barclays, but left the City in 1997 in order to teach and do research at UCL. A Conservative since university, he worked to help Oliver Letwin MP retain his seat in West Dorset during the 2005 general election, and stood as a Conservative candidate in the 2006 Council elections. He’s acted as a policy adviser to George Osborne MP, the Chancellor, and to the Shadow Work and Pensions team. Most recently, he took time out to advise Boris Johnson on his successful campaign to become Mayor of London. Jesse is a published author of several books and has written widely in the national press including The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardianand Spectator. He’s also appeared on BBC1, BBC News 24 and Sky News; and on Start The Week with Andrew Marr, Any Questions? with Jonathan Dimbleby, The Westminster Hour and Analysis. 

Peter Sands 
Peter was appointed Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC in 2006. Immediately prior to this he’d been Group Finance Director of Standard Chartered PLC since his appointment as a Group Executive Director in 2002. Before that, from 1988, Peter was a Director with consultants McKinsey & Co where he worked extensively in the banking and technology sectors in a wide range of international markets. He was elected a partner of McKinsey in 1996 and became Director in 2000. Peter graduated from Oxford University and holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, where he was a Harkness Fellow.

Andria Vidler
Andria Vidler was appointed CEO of EMI Music UK and Ireland in the summer of 2009.  Home to some of the most successful recording artists, songwriters and music catalogues including Katy Perry, Kate Bush, Coldplay, Kylie, The Beatles and Pink Floyd, this is proving to be her dream job improving EMI UK’s market share, building new revenue streams and launching new artists like Tinie Tempah, Professor Green, Eliza Doolittle and Swedish House Mafia. Previous to this Andria held the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Bauer Media, taking charge of all trade and consumer marketing, across all of Bauer Media’s Radio, Magazine and TV brands.  Andria joined Bauer Media (then Emap plc) in June 2005 as MD of Magic 105.4; relaunching the station and driving its growth to over 2 million and establishing it ever since as one of London’s dominant commercial radio stations. Prior to joining Bauer, Andria was MD for Capital 95.8 and the Capital FM Network.  Between 1994 and 2000 she worked at the BBC where she held a number of strategic marketing and communications positions including Head of Business Development and Marketing at BBC Sport; Head of Marketing BBC News where she worked on the launch of BBC News 24, BBC News Online and Marketing Manager for the launch of Radio5Live.  She has also held business development and managerial roles in advertising and retail. Andria is a MGGB Council member and Trustee of the Roundhouse.  She lives in Fulham with her husband and has 2 gorgeous daughters, Tabitha & Imogen, 13 & 11.

Elise Cobain
Elise started her radio career aged 11.Since then she has worked on Radio XL, Red FM, Livewire, Camden Community Radio, and now is the alternative music specialist of the Roundhouse Radio line-up. She assists on the BBC Kent Introducing every Sunday and helps out with the Radio 1 specialist team on a casual basis. Chatting to artists about the music they make and playing out the songs they create is what she does best and she can be found on Roundhouse Radio, every Tuesday 8-9pm doing just that. She is now Assistant Station Manager for Roundhouse Radio.

Michael Burke
Mike is the Chairman of RYAB, The Roundhouse Youth Advisory Board, and also siits on the Roundhouse Board. He first got involved at the Roundhouse through the original V-EMI volunteer programme in 2008. He works here as a casual technician, and is also a member of the Outhouse Collective, one of the Roundhouse's associate theatre companies. He says: "What's my favourite Roundhouse experience? I honestly cannot decide between seeing Ozzy Osbourne or The Mars Volta in the main space.  Two of the best gigs I have had the privilege to be at."