Industry Champions

Meet our Industry Champions. They are a UK-wide network of practitioners, drawn from all parts of the creative industries to provide Creative PEC with on-the-ground insight to inform our research and policy

Our Industry Champions meet regularly to discuss key issues and potential solutions to challenges facing creatives and creative businesses in the UK. They also provide a opinion and write guest blogs. The Industry Insights papers from Industry Champion roundtables are published here.

Blogs & insights

Rewriting the Logic: Designing Responsible AI for the Creative Sector

As AI reshapes how culture is made and shared, Ve Dewey asks: Who gets to create? Whose voices are erased?

Industry Insights: AI and Copyright

On 5th February 2025, the Creative PEC convened a roundtable of our Industry Champions network to discuss the main issues

Lifelong learning in the creative industries, part 2: the solutions 

In part 2 of the blog, our Industry Champions discuss possible solutions to the challenges of lifelong learning in the

Lifelong learning in the creative industries – part 1: the challenges

Our Industry Champions discussed the challenges faced in creative industries education and lifelong learning at the recent roundtable.

Meet the Industry Champions

Amy Smith

Global Director, Recruitment & Outreach at Framestore

Anna Disley

Executive Director, Programmes and Impact, New Writing North

Anna Kiernan

Associate Professor in Creativity and Literary Culture, University of Exeter

Anna Kime

Freelance artist and Policy Officer, Centre for Cultural Value

Annie Warburton

CEO at the Goldsmiths' Company

Anra Kennedy

Consultant Director at The Audience Agency

Carys Taylor

Independent Consultant

Charlotte Beevor

Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist

Chris Hildrey

Director, Hildrey Studio

Claire Whitaker

CEO of Southampton Forward

Dave Moutrey

Director of Culture and Creative Industries at Manchester City Council

Fiona Mozley

Novelist

Fred Deakin

Director, Fred Deakin and Company Limited

Grace Shin

Account Manager, Clarity

Hannah Pater

Development Director, Big Change

Holly Lewis

Co-Founding Partner, We Made That

Jack Gamble

Director, Campaign for the Arts

Jaswinder Singh

Director of Asian Arts Agency

Jennifer Johnston

Head of Learning at Into Film

Jo Morrison

Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium

Josie Warden

Design Researcher

Kate O’Connor

Senior Consultant and Executive Chair, Animation UK

Lara Ratnaraja

Cultural Consultant

Laura Gander-Howe

Director, Culture Change Works

Laura Giles

Managing Director at Screen Cornwall

Laura Pye

Director at National Museums Liverpool

Leslie Ramos

Philanthropy Advisor and Director at The Twentieth

Lilli Geissendorfer

Independent Consultant and Director, Theatre Green Book

Linda Spurdle

Cultural Consultant and Producer

Malath Abbas

Game Designer and Creative Producer

Mandy Barker

Founder of Sail Creative

Maria Tanjala

Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain

Maria Than

Creative Technologist, Co-Founder at Ricebox Studio

Natasha Trotman

Equalities Designer and Researcher

Nia Williams

Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales

Phil Holton

Senior Qualification Manager, Pearson

Rachel Coldicutt

Founder and Executive Director, Careful Trouble

Rachel Maclean

Artist and NUAcT Research Fellow

Rebecca Swarray

Senior Policy Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and freelance Curator, DJ and Producer

Robert Kilpatrick

CEO and Creative Director, Scottish Music Industry Association

Sade Banks

Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons

Sara Salsinha

Independent Designer and Researcher

Sarah Ellis

Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company

Savraj Matharu

Principal Lecturer in Digital Innovation, University of Westminster

Sharon Watson

CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Stephen Bennett

Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist

Steven Berryman

President of the Chartered College of Teaching and Senior Deputy Head, Sir William Perkins's School

Tobias Revell

Design Futures Lead at Arup

Tolu Stedford

Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions

Tom Chalmers

Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group

Tom Philipson

Founder of YourStudio and Special Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL

Ve Dewey

Founder and CEO of Concurrency

Vikas Kumar

Founder and Director of GemArts

Will Saunders

Consultant and Executive Producer