Trustees

Meet the Trustees

Music for my Mind has the backing of a committed and influential Board, chaired by the Founder, Professor Keith McAdam, who witnessed first-hand, the effect that music and creativity can have on wellbeing and quality of life in people living with HIV in a clinic in Uganda, where he was the foundation director. His background in clinical medicine and research has helped us envision a step by step process to achieve our goal, working with cross-disciplinary collaborators.

Keith McAdam

Founder and Chairman

The Creativity Initiative at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda (where I was the foundation director 2004-7) illustrated the powerful effects of music and art in promoting wellbeing and personal involvement of people living with HIV.

Linda Luxon

Trustee

Linda Luxon is Emeritus Professor at UCL and Honorary Consultant Physician in Neuro-Otology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and past-Treasurer at the Royal College of Physicians.

Tim Clark

Trustee

Tim Clark is co-founder of ie:music, the artist management company renowned for representing some of the industry’s most successful artists, including Robbie Williams, Lily Allen and Passenger. He has been Vice-President for UNICEF since 2002 and played a key role in developing Soccer Aid for UNICEF.

Nicholas Craig

Trustee

Nicholas Craig is a Barrister, specialising in Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration. He provides legal advice to the organisation.

Mark Williamson

Trustee

Mark Williamson is an Advisor at Muru Music. Previously he lead the Spotify Artist Services Team worldwide, currently based in California. He was responsible for building relationships with artists and their teams, managers, agents, lawyers and marketeers. Mark is keen to use music technology to support Music for My Mind.

Aarish Shah

Trustee

Aarish Shah has worked across a number of industries and held a number of roles in for profit as well as not for profit organisations and trade bodies. He currently advises scaling tech companies in London through his consultancy, EmergeOne, and has launched ventures always with the underlying aim of helping people and businesses grow. He is particularly interested in the impact space, within education and health and believes that technology has the opportunity to make massive changes to the way we think about and deliver outcomes in these fields.

Caroline Kemp

Trustee

Caroline Kemp has a long career specialising in the voluntary and charity sector both in urban and rural surroundings. The Citizens Advice service, housing and refugee, and inter generational community charities have all been part of Caroline’s experience including management and policy creation. This work has also involved fundraising and user representation.

Roberto Neri

Trustee

Roberto Neri is the Executive Vice President of Downtown UK and Head of Business Development for Europe where he oversees the UK's office and has broader international responsibilities. Roberto joined Downtown Music in 2015 as part of the acquisition of Eagle-i Music. Roberto founded Eagle-i Music in 2011, which represented over 40,000 compositions and included clients such as: John Lennon (Lenono), Sir George Martin, Deep Purple and B.A. Robertson.

Advisory Board

Sue Hollick

Adviser

Susan Mary Woodford-Hollick, Lady Hollick OBE is a businesswoman and consultant with a wide-ranging involvement in broadcasting and the arts. A former investigative journalist, she worked for many years in television (as Sue Woodford), where her roles included producer/director of World in Action for Granada TV and founding commissioning editor of Multicultural Programmes for Channel 4. She is on the board of the Stuart Hall Foundation...

Richard Buccleuch

Adviser

Richard Scott is the 10th Duke of Buccleuch and the 12th Duke of Queensberry, has made his family home in Nithsdale in Dumfriesshire. Married with four children he is involved in management of the historic family estate businesses, heritage properties and art collections. He was made a KBE in 2000 and has held many notable public appointments over the years including President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and Director of Border Television.

Jonathan May

Adviser

Jonathan May is a digital fundraising expert, Founder of Hubbub and an Associate Partner at More Partnership. He also served as a Director of the UK Crowdfunding Association for two years at the inception of the regulatory environment approving the use of equity crowdfunding in the UK. Jonathan has helped build digital giving programmes at over 50 UK universities and nonprofits, is a Winston Churchill Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Leadership Fellow of St George’s House, Windsor.

Clive Hollick

Adviser

The Right Honourable Lord Hollick is a Member of the House of Lords. He is a non-executive director of Honeywell International . He was Chief Executive of UBM plc, a Partner at KKR and led the media industry team in Europe. He was Chairman of SBS Broadcasting and a director of The Nielsen Company. He is a member of the board of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Royal Society.

Liam Fisher-Jones

Adviser

Liam Fisher-Jones is a director at More Partnership, the international consulting firm that specialises in third sector organisations. He is the Development Director for Physicians for Africa. Prior to this, he ran the £113m capital campaign for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is an advisor to AMREF Health Africa, the continent’s largest home grown health organisation and serves as a trustee at Punchdrunk, the immersive arts company.