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A Chief Executive who has successfully built a high impact, widely respected and emulated charity adding artistic, educational, social and economic value to North London, I have surmounted the challenges of the financial crash and the COVID pandemic to build a sustainable and resilient organisation. A winner of many awards who has doubled turnover, I am a strategist, operational manager and a leader of large teams who has built partnerships, developed markets and won substantial statutory funding.Selected Achievements:• Successfully rebranding both the Royal Albert Hall and artsdepot, empowering successful commercial revenue turnaround strategies.• Leveraging the winning of £300k Arts Council funding into £2.2m turnover per annum.• Turning around community relations, initially soured by a troubled launch before my arrival, by listening to local needs and providing services valued by artsdepots users, leading to a renaissances in its reputation.• Developing, at speed, innovative strategies and tactics to ensure artsdepot’s future, changing organisational structure and culture, the building’s use, onboarding and keeping major tenants while booking acts from Ricky Gervais to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and in parallel building international partnerships.• Founding Future Arts Centres with the Chief Executives of other London based and regional arts centres, leveraging their collective strength to first raise funds, advocate and then build an international presence.A financially aware, empowering manager who builds partnerships with the community, prominent institutional funders and peer organisations, with solid experience of governance and working with Trustee Boards (including our past Chair, Mark Ball, Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre), I am pursuing a fresh leadership challenge at Chief Executive, Operations Director or Business Director level for a service delivery charity benefiting vulnerable people, in the UK and/or overseas.

Listed skills include Theatre, Venue Management, Event Management, Fundraising, and 25 others.