Patron

HRH The Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy

President Earl of Harewood KBE

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of our President Lord Harewood KBE on 11 July 2011. He made a huge contribution to ENO and opera in general during his remarkable life - as Managing Director, Chairman and latterly President of ENO and in overseeing the creation of Opera North. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his wife and family at this very sad time.

Lord Harewood was known for his definitive work as Editor of “Kobbe’s Complete Opera Book’, and to audiences in the UK and Europe as Artistic Director of Edinburgh Festival (1961-65); Director of Leeds Festival (1958-74); Managing Director of English National Opera (1972-85) Chairman of the Board (1986-95) and thereafter President; Managing Director of Opera North (1978-81) and thereafter Board member and Vice Chairman.

He was Artistic Adviser to the New Philharmonia Orchestra from 1966-76 and was also President of the English Football Association (1963-72); and Leeds United Football Club from 1961.

ENO Board

Sir Vernon Ellis, Chairman (appointed 1 March 2001)

Sir Vernon Ellis was appointed Acting Chairman in December 2005 and became Chairman in June 2006. He has long had a passion for the arts, particularly music, and through his Foundation, hosts regular musical events at his London home to support musicians. Sir Vernon is a Trustee of several musical organisations and in March 2010 was appointed Chair of the British Council. He is also Chairman of Martin Randall Travel and a classical music downloads venture in the US.

The backbone of his previous working life was at Accenture where until 2008 he was International Chairman.

Sir Vernon was awarded a Knighthood in the New Year Honours, 2011 for services to music.

 
Sir Peter Bazalgette, Deputy Chairman (appointed 21 July 2004)

Peter Bazalgette is non-executive Chairman of two of Sony’s television divisions in the UK, non-executive director of MyVideoRights and Nutopia and also a member of BBH’s Advisory Board.

From 2004-2007 he was Chief Creative Officer of Endemol. He has personally devised several internationally successful TV formats, such as Ready Steady Cook and Changing Rooms. He also brought Big Brother to the UK. Peter’s book about the business of TV formats, Billion Dollar Game, was published in 2005.

Peter is also a non-executive director of YouGov and a former Board member of Channel 4. He is a trustee of Debate Mate.

Nicholas Allan (appointed 8 January 2008)

Nicholas Allan is Managing Partner of Boyer Allan Investment Management LLP, a specialist Asian fund management company. He is also a trustee of Families for Children, a West Country adoption agency, and of Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust.
 
Prior to setting up Boyer Allan Investment Management in 1998, Nicholas had senior roles with Kleinwort Benson, in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Glyn Barker (appointed 21 January 2009)

Glyn Barker was appointed Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers in July 2008.

Previously Glyn was on the Management Board, as Managing Partner responsible for Clients & Markets from 2006 to 2008, and between 2002-2006 he was head of PricewaterhouseCoopers Assurance practice. Prior to that he established and ran PricewaterhouseCoopers Transactions Services business.

Dr Harry Brünjes (appointed 22 September 2010)

Harry Brünjes initially graduated from London University and then qualified in medicine at Guy’s Hospital. Premier Medical developed from his Harley Street practice in 1995. There then followed a period of organic growth and acquisition, culminating in trade sale to Capita in 2010, with Harry remaining as Chairman of PMG. He is also Group Medical Director of Capita and non-Executive Director of The Good Care Group. Harry is Chairman of Lancing College, Vice-President of the College of Medicine, a Governor of the Expert Witness Institute and Governor of Valderrama. Outside of medicine, Harry enjoys all sport, is a musician and has a lifelong interest in music and theatre. He is a regular writer, broadcaster and lecturer.  Harry is married to the choreographer/director Jacqueline Storey and they have four children.

David Buchler (appointed 25  October 2006)

With a career spanning 30 years, David is recognised as a leading practitioner in the field of corporate turnaround and restructuring. A former Arthur Andersen partner and founding partner of Buchler Phillips, he was Chairman of Kroll, Inc. for Europe, Middle East and Africa until 2003. His appointments have included cases on behalf of major banks, lawyers, accountants, the Courts and the Department of Trade and Industry. He is currently Chairman/Vice Chairman/Director of a number of public and private companies in the United Kingdom including DB Consultants Ltd, Templewood Partnership, Volvere, Ventura UK, Augur Buchler Partners & London Asia Capital

He is a Member of the Academy of Experts, a Member of Institute for Turnaround and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is also Trustee of Syracuse University and was a producer of the London International Opera Festival from 1985-1993.

Anthony Fry (appointed 18 March 2009)

Anthony Fry is Chairman of Espirito Santo Investment Bank in London having previously held senior positions with inter alia Rothschilds, Credit Suisse and Evercore Partners. He is also Chairman of Dairy Crest, Chairman of CALA, a trustee of the BBC and a non executive director of Control Risks and Twig World, having previously served on the Boards of Southern Water, Mowlem and the BSI.

For many years he served as Vice Chairman of the British Lung Foundation and as a member of the development boards of LAMDA, the Natural History Museum and the NFTS. He is currently Chairman of Development at SOAS, a Governor of Godolphin and Latymer and a Board member of The Sixteen and Paintings in Hospitals.

Ffion Hague (appointed 23 September 2009)

Ffion Hague is a consultant who specialises in corporate governance and non-executive recruitment.  She is currently focusing on board evaluation and also mentors non-executive directors.

Ffion’s first book The Pain and the Privilege, a biography of the women in Lloyd George's life, was published in June 2008.  She recently presented a documentary The Two Wives of Lloyd George for S4C and broadcasts regularly on related subjects. 

Ffion has been a Director of Arts & Business, the British Council, The Voices Foundation, Action on Addiction, the WNO Development Circle and the LSO Advisory Board. She is currently a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust and sits on the Barclays Wealth Advisory Committee.

David Harrel (appointed 16 November 2006)

David Harrel,  the former Senior Partner of the law firm SJ Berwin LLP, holds a number of consultancy roles for organisations including SJ Berwin LLP, Blackwood Group and Proven. He is Chairman of financial services organisation The Kyte Group, Non-Executive Director for property group Wichford Plc, and Non-Executive Director for wealth management company Rathbone Brothers Plc

He is a trustee of The Clore Duffield Foundation and the Aspinall Foundation and a Director of The Clore Leadership Programme.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon (appointed 17 November 2004)

Sir Nicholas Kenyon is Managing Director of the Barbican Centre and was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007.
 
As a music critic he wrote for The New Yorker, The Times and Observer, and was editor of Early Music 1983-92. He was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 3 in 1992. He then oversaw the BBC’s programming for the Millennium and ran the BBC’s Live Events and TV Classical Music departments.

He has continued to write and lecture on the arts. He is a board member of Arts Council England and the Cultural Olympiad Board, and a Trustee of the Dartington Hall Trust and Sage Gateshead.

Anthony Lilley (appointed 17 October 2007)

Anthony Lilley OBE is Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Magic Lantern.  He is also Acting CEO of schools social networking company IMJack plc.

He is a BAFTA, Royal Television Society and Peabody Award winning interactive media producer. Through Magic Lantern, Anthony is also currently Creative Director of the Plymouth 2018, the successful World Cup Host City Bid.

He works extensively in media policy, currently as a Member of the Content Board of Ofcom as well as having advised government departments including DCMS and DCSF.  In 2008, he was News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford and has recently taken up a Visiting Professorship at Bournemouth University. He advises Arts Council England and is Chair of Lighthouse in Brighton.

Catherine May (appointed 22 June 2011)

Catherine May has over twenty years of experience in communications, marketing and corporate leadership. From September 2006 – December 2011 she served on the executive committee of Centrica plc, the integrated energy group which encompasses British Gas, Centrica Energy and Direct Energy, as Group Director, Corporate Affairs. Before joining Centrica, Catherine was Group Director of Corporate Relations for Reed Elsevier plc, the international media and information services company.

She currently working as a director of World Capital of Culture, a not for profit organisation, and is also a business advisor to the charity Afrikids, which manages a range of community projects in northern Ghana.

Kate O'Neill (appointed 22 June 2011)

Kate joined Lloyds Banking Group as MD, Investor Relations in May 2010.

She was previously with RBS Asset Management in a newly created role as Head of Distribution. Kate has global responsibility for the distribution of RBS AM's product and capabilities to institutional clients. Before this Kate was at Henderson Global Investors where she was Head of Pan-European Distribution and Hedge Funds.

Prior to joining Henderson in London in 2001, Kate worked for its then parent company AMP in Sydney for 5 years, most recently as Head of Risk and Operations in its private equity business.

 Janis Susskind (appointed 21 July 2004)

Born in Houston, Janis Susskind settled in London in 1980 and joined Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, where she is now Publishing Director and a parent Board director. Susskind has been regularly involved with organisations connected with the musical ecology of the UK. She is currently a Board member of English National Opera and a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Previously, she has served as a member of the Arts Council of England Music Advisory Panel and deputy chairman of the ACE Stabilisation Advisory Panel, a Council member of the Royal College of Music, Chairman of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, and a Board member of the record company NMC and of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Board Secretary

John Cooke

John Cooke is an international economic relations consultant, and is Chairman of a City of London group focusing on financial services liberalisation. He is also Deputy Chairman of SITPRO, a trade facilitation agency. John was previously Head of International Relations at the Association of British Insurers and, before that, a senior civil servant at the Department of Trade & Industry. He regularly contributes to conferences, seminars and publications on international trade policy and financial services regulatory issues.

John is also Chairman of the ENO Benevolent Fund, a registered charity which makes grants to past or present members of the company in cases of special need or hardship.