Trustees

Christopher Purvis CBE

Chairman; Chairman, Development Board

Christopher Purvis has spent the last 13 years of his career in the not-for-profit sector.  He assisted in the reconstitution of the AAM as a charitable company in 2000 and since then has served as chairman of the board.  He is president of the Handel House Museum, chairman of the Barbican Centre Trust, IntoUniversity and the Japan Society, and a trustee of the J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust, Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.  Between 1974 and 1997 he spent his professional career with S.G. Warburg and its successor firms.  He studied Greats at Oxford.

Adam Broadbent

Chairman, Nominations Committee

Adam Broadbent has been a director of the Academy of Ancient Music since 2003, and brings to the board considerable business experience. He spent 28 years with Schroders, finally as Group Managing Director of Investment Banking; following that he joined the boards of a number of companies and was chairman of the Dover Harbour Board, Arcadia Group plc and EMAP plc.  He holds degrees in history from Magdalen College, Oxford and from Queen Mary, University of London, and in economics from the London School of Economics.

Kay Brock LVO DL

Kay Brock brings breadth of experience to the Board, following a career with international experience in both public and private sector. Initially a Whitehall civil servant, she then moved to management consulting, particularly in post-communist eastern Europe, followed by periods as one of The Queen’s advisers (Assistant Private Secretary) and then as Chief of Staff to the Lord Mayor of the City of London. She chairs the charity Dance United, is on the Advisory Council of the LSO, is an external member of her Oxford College’s Remuneration Committee, and serves as a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford and the London Business School.

John Everett

Chairman, Audit and Risk Committee

John Everett began his career as an economist and strategic planner in the steel, automotive and pharmaceutical industries.  He joined Deloitte in 1979 and was appointed to the firm’s global board in 1994 after periods in the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, the Middle East and the UK, latterly as Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting.  He retired in 2005, and now serves as a trustee of The Friends of the V&A and of Youth at Risk and as a non-executive director of a small public sector consultancy firm.  He was chairman of two Deloitte pension funds until 2009.  He studied economics at the University of London, and is also an accountant.

Matthew Ferrey

Matthew Ferrey spent his career in the international oil business.  He retired recently in order to focus on his not-for-profit and other business interests.  After periods in Cape Town, New York, Dallas and Singapore with Caltex Petroleum, he returned to the UK in 1985 as Managing Director of Marimpex Petroleum.  In 1993 he joined the Vitol Group where he was latterly senior partner.  He is a Governor of the Royal Academy of Music, and other interests include skiing, sailing, politics and philosophy.

James Golob

James Golob became a director of the AAM in 2011. He had a career of 25 years in the City, where he was a leading telecoms analyst and latterly a partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs. He was the lead research analyst for most of the European telecom privatisations and a number in Australasia. He retired from the City in 2006 and became involved in the city academy programme as Chairman of Walthamstow Academy's governing body, and he is on the board of United Learning Trust, the Academy's sponsor. He holds an MA and PhD from Cambridge University in the History of Art and Architecture.

John Grieves

John Grieves was for 33 years a partner at Freshfields, the major international law firm, and was Senior Partner for the final six. He subsequently spent a decade in the corporate world as non-executive director of a number of public companies including Enterprise Oil and Hillsdown Holdings, and as chairman of First Leisure Corporation, Esporta and New Look Group.  He is chairman of Emmaus UK and a trustee of the Media Masterclass Foundation.  He was educated at Oxford and at Harvard Business School.

Heather Jarman

Company Secretary

Heather Jarman has been involved with the AAM from its earliest days.  From 1976 to 1983 she was the orchestra’s first General Manager, and she has continued to work with the organisation as a consultant and as Company Secretary.  Her career has included periods in business as General Manager of GST Computer Systems Ltd; and she now runs her own tour company, Sapori e Saperi Adventures.  She has served as a director of the AAM since it was reconstituted as a charitable company in 2000.

John Reeve

John Reeve was a Partner at Deloitte for 24 years, specialising in large-scale technology projects in the financial services sector. At the time of his retirement in 2010 he was the Technology Consulting leader for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In parallel with his business career, he has continued to be a keen amateur musician and music historian, playing lutes and guitars from the renaissance and baroque periods as well as the classical guitar. He is a trustee of the Lute Society and was elected Chairman in 2009. He has degrees in Philosophy from the University of Sussex and University College London.

Terence Sinclair

Terence Sinclair became a director of the AAM in 2011. He is a Managing Director of Citigroup, where he heads the equity research business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and serves as a member of the bank's regional operating committee. He has worked in financial markets since 1996. He began his career at Welsh National Opera as one of its staff producers, and more recently was Finance Director of the Hay Festival of Literature. He read philosophy at King's College, Cambridge.

Dr Christopher Tadgell

An eminent architectural historian, Dr Christopher Tadgell brings to the board significant experience of the Arts.  He is a trustee of the World Monuments Fund and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Asiatic Society. He has taught at universities in Europe and the United States and is the author of several books.  

Janet Unwin

Janet Unwin has experience in international affairs and the world of music on both sides of the Atlantic. She served in HM Diplomatic Service, chiefly at the UK Mission to the UN in New York, and subsequently worked for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York, and the David Davies Memorial Institute and the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London. During a second period in New York she co-ordinated the music programme for Britain Salutes New York (a British arts festival), and on return to the UK she devised fundraising musical events for the National Arts Collection Fund. She is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, a past Member of Council of the Royal School of Church Music, and a Trustee of the Parkhouse Award (an international chamber music competition). She has degrees in English and Medieval Studies from Oxford.