Berkeley Edwards

Trustee

Berkeley is the Head of Music and a principal at Clintons – a market-leading boutique law firm. He represents a broad cross section of the most successful musical talent in the UK and Europe as well as advising many emerging artists on the pathways available in the modern music industry.

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Bre McDermott-King

Trustee

With a passion for marketing, Bre has worked on a number of global artist campaigns. She is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion, and was previously the Head of Sony Music UK's first ever diversity committee, HUE UK. In 2019, she launched a collective, Women Connect UK, which works to advocate for and provide opportunities for women and non-binary folk in the creative industries.

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Charlotte Edgeworth

Youth Music Co-Chair

Charlotte is passionate about finding ways for organisations to have a positive impact on their communities, their employees and wider society.  

Starting her career in marketing and moving through the voluntary sector into Corporate Responsibility, Charlotte has worked across a variety of functions including Social Impact, DEI and Environmental Programmes. She is an expert in strategic grant-making and has led corporate foundations for global FTSE-listed organisations as well as having been CEO of a charity.

In 2021 Charlotte joined Sony Music UK as their first Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact. In this role she leads on community programmes, charity partnerships and embedding equitable and inclusive practices across the company.

Claire Wills

Trustee & Chair of F&A

Claire is an audit partner at Saffery LLP, a top 15 accountancy firm. She has more than 20 years’ experience and specialises in working with charities. Her client portfolio includes a number of arts charities as well as a wide range of other not for profit entities including grant makers and fundraising charities. Claire enjoys working with her clients to help them navigate a variety of challenges and opportunities. No two clients are ever the same.

Freddie Aitken

Trustee

Freddie works in Membership and EDI at London Youth Choirs. He also runs a DIY electronic music record label, hosts monthly radio shows, and DJs in his home city of London and around the UK. Alongside this, Freddie is a member of the first European Music Business Task Force and podcast show host for the Music Cities Network's "Music Industry Voices" podcast. 

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Hanna Chalmers

Trustee

Hanna Chalmers has spent her career working in, and around the media, tech, music and entertainment industries. She spent nearly a decade at the BBC working with a wide research remit across the youth brands from Cbeebies to BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. She then moved to Universal Music where she established and led the research and insights practice in the UK. In 2020 Hanna set up CultureStudio Research, a 'culture first' insights practice and collective operating out of London but working internationally.

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Miri Buac

Trustee

Miri is a brand strategist and Head of Communications for a not-for-profit membership organisation. She has worked with an array of consumer brands and charities leading on creative and behaviour change projects. She’s passionate about youth culture, helping people share their lived experiences to influence societal change or help increase opportunities available to individuals and communities. Over the years, Miri has worked on the launch of Apple Music, implementing programmes with Sport England, Youth Sport Trust, and national governing bodies, and even whipped up a media storm(zy) about Youth Music. 

Paul Bonham

Trustee

With a background in public funding, diversity and inclusion, music management and professional development, one of Paul’s first paid jobs in the industry was running a Youth Music funded DJ and Rap project in his hometown of Oxford. Paul currently leads the Music Manager Forum's ground-breaking Accelerator supported by YouTube Music.

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Sarah Brown

Trustee

Sarah is the national programme lead for children and young people’s mental health at NHS England. With over 20 years’ experience in public sector children’s services, Sarah has been at the forefront of developing and delivering public policy, leading strategic commissioning and driving large-scale transformational change at a national, sub-regional and local level.

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Nathifa Jordan

Trustee

Nathifa Jordan is the Business Director at CultureMix Arts, a not-for-profit music and carnival arts organisation based in Berkshire. She is an experienced creative with a demonstrated history of working with young people in music related activities. Nathifa has a degree in Sociology from the University of Surrey and is passionate about education and personal development. She leads the facilitation of business training, work experience, careers advice and mentoring making a positive difference to the lives and futures of many young people. Through her work her mission is to help empower young people to achieve their ambitions and further develop prospects for careers in the music and creative industry.

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Alexis Taylor

Band member, Hot Chip

The regular on-stage and in-the-studio appearances Alexis Taylor makes with a series of diffuse living legends, from free improv magi to Cristal Pop Superstars, demonstrates his ability to enjoy any scenario in which creativity is at its most pronounced. The four solo albums Taylor has recorded bear witness to this urge; lyrically often honest and warm-hearted, Taylor has found an ever-shifting musical context in which to place his instantly recognisable voice.

Amarie Cassidy

Artist Marketing Manager, Amazon Music

Amarie Cassidy is an Artist Marketing Manager and international DJ with a near decade in the worlds of music, fashion and culture. She currently leads on major artist campaigns and boasts a wide range of clients including Sony Music, Boiler Room and ASOS. Her love for music also shines through her work outside of marketing, whether its interviewing the likes of Dave and Krept & Konan on GRM Daily or DJing for brands like Nike, Soho House and Paris Fashion Week. She graduated from UCL, with her first-class dissertation on British hip-hop garnering national media attention and praise from rapper, Stormzy. She has since gone back to university to talk about her career to inspire the next generation of music executives and can’t wait to see the new wave of talent that the Youth Music Awards has to offer!

Bryan Wilson

Producer, Mixer, Songwriter & Recording Engineer

Bryan Wilson (AKA Boom Dice) is a multi-Grammy nominated/Brit Award winning Producer, Mixer, Songwriter, Artist and Recording Engineer who has worked with; Sofi Tukker, Stormzy, Jay Electronica w/Jay-Z, Mabel, Wolf Alice, Disclosure, John Newman, Lianne La Havas, Plan B, Emilie Sande, Anne Marie, Jeremy Loops, and Sam Ryder amongst many others. His work transcends genres and is behind over 10 billion streams, huge sync placements, as well as gold and platinum sales certifications globally. He is also the founder/A&R of Boom Dice Presents, a label and music discovery platform that showcases global talent.

Capo Lee

Artist

Capo Lee is a Grime MC and campaigner from North London.

Charlie Rout

Associate Creative Director, Warner Music X

Charlie Rout is a multidisciplinary creative, working at the intersection of where Youth Culture meets Advertising. With a decade of experience in major labels, Charlie is currently Associate Creative Director at Warner Music X. Throughout his career, he’s worked with culture-shaping brands such as Beats By Dre, Levi’s, Puma, Red Bull, Sony and Microsoft.

Chloé Abrahams-Duperry

Artist & Promoter Relations Manager, International at Ticketmaster Music

Chloé joined Ticketmaster’s Global Music division as Artist & Promoter Relations Manager early 2022, working across Ticketmaster’s portfolio of markets outside North America. She works with promoters and artist teams to develop and deliver on ticketing strategy - overseeing the process of international tours from conception to execution.

In the last year, Chloé has managed the launch of ticketing services for European tours for the likes of Harry Styles, Beyoncé, BLACKPINK and Sam Smith to name a few.

Christopher Daglish

Brand Programs Manager, Levi’s

Chris is the Brand Programs Manager at Levi’s. Leading on music and culture campaigns for North Europe, including the Levi’s Music Project, that has activated community-based activations with the likes of Skepta, Loyle Carner, Khalid and Mabel to name a few.

Chris Pattinson

Director of Music, Media Arts Lab

Chris Pattinson is Director Of Music for TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the global network dedicated to Apple's advertising. Before this he set up and co-founded The Black Cab Sessions, a music platform featuring artists such as Jack White, The Roots, Brian Wilson and Solange performing a song in the back of a London cab.  The platform was responsible for discovering and promoting artists such as Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka and Laura Marling as well as many more. Black Cab Sessions is in hiatus until the team manages to persuade a certain icon to take part.