Our committed and knowledgeable team of Trustees are drawn from across non-profit and commercial sectors.
Jacqui Adeniji-Williams aka Miss Jacqui
Co-Chair
Miss Jacqui is a poet and songwriter who knows a great deal about working with the cards that you are dealt. She is someone who always tries to challenge societal perceptions, like what it actually means to be a black woman with a disability. A wheelchair user herself, Miss Jacqui wants her poetry and music to help her listeners to see the world differently, and to inspire others to feel confident in being themselves. She has spent over 15+ years creating, performing, and advocating for change in different industries, performing at various locations like the 2012 Paralympic Team Welcoming Ceremonies as well as the Opening Ceremony, Southbank Centre, The Barbican, and Roundhouse to name a few. She has also worked with Graeae, Oily Cart, Theatre Royal Stratford East, National Youth Theatre, The Poetry Society, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Upswing, and More. Miss Jacqui believes that creativity can be a universal language and in her spare time, she is devoted to the exploration of poetry, music, songwriting, and of course performing. Her debut EP “Perception” was a bold step in establishing herself and her disabled activism within the walls of the music industry.
Jane Dyball
Co-Chair
Jane Dyball is a music industry veteran. Formerly CEO of the £150m turnover businesses owned by the Music Publishers Association, in 2018 she won the Outstanding Contribution award at Music Week’s Women in Music Awards, and in 2019 she won an Ivors Academy Gold Badge Award.
Prior to that Jane ran Legal & Business Affairs internationally at Warner/Chappell Music and was additionally responsible for international digital strategy, developing markets and public policy.
Jane is passionate about access to opportunity. She is Co Chair of Attitude is Everything, Co-founder of the Primadonna Festival CIC, a Trustee of Suffolk Artlink, and is a mentor for tech music incubators including Abbey Road Red & The Rattle. She has a strategic consultancy business, Laffittes Ltd.
Adrian Bossey
Adrian is Head of Subject at the Cornwall Business School, Falmouth University and a former artist manager whose clients included Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Chumbawumba, Drugstore, My Life Story and The Senseless Things. He worked on 15 UK top forty albums, managed the main stage headline act at Glastonbury Festival (1992) and promoted the original launch party for Attitude is Everything.
At Falmouth, Adrian was Executive Producer at AMATA for 6 years; working with artists including Cara Dillon, Pussy Riot and Elton John. Adrian wrote and led delivery of courses including MA Creative Events Management and currently oversees a wide range of courses including BA(Hons) Sustainable Festival Management in partnership with the Eden Project. He conceived short on-line courses for the live music industry in partnership with A Greener Festival and Attitude is Everything.
Adrian is Sustainability Champion for Falmouth University and Chair for the Association of Events Management Educators. He is a reviewer for the International Journal of Event and Festival Management and Routledge. His research interests include potential digital futures for live performances at music festivals.
Ben Price
Ben Price is an Arts Manager, Producer and Disability advocate. He works with a roster of disabled creatives and with the wider industry on representation and improved policies for the disabled workforce.
He is also a Grants & Programmes Manager at PRS Foundation, where he manages the Early Years Promoter Fund.
Following a career as a tour manager, Ben began to shift his focus into management after learning of a degenerative eye condition. Harbourside Artist Management was established in 2020 to help bridge the apparent gap between disability arts and pop culture.
Based in Bristol but with an international roster, Harbourside Artist Management represents Viktoria Modesta, Elle Chante and Musa Motha.
Ben sits on the BPI’s EJAG committee, a group of independent industry professionals, who collectively advocate across the sector and contribute to steering the BPI’s Equality, Diversity and Intersectional work for its members, award shows, events and The BRIT Trust.
Daniel Pounder
Treasurer
Daniel Pounder completed his Accountancy training with Deloitte and was admitted as an Associate into the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, subsequently being admitted as a Fellow in 2013 and being granted a Diploma in Charity Accounting in 2023. He has been working in senior finance positions for nearly two decades at major international media conglomerates, including Viacom, Sony and Bertelsmann, focused on their music divisions and is presently CFO of Hipgnosis Songs Management,
Holding an MSc in Charity Accounting and Financial Management from Bayes Business School, City University, he provides support to a number of Charitable Organizations with Trustee and voluntary positions building on his academic and professional qualifications, as Honorary Trustee for The British Institute of Radiology, a Trustee of anti-modern slavery charity Unseen UK, a founding Trustee of Progression Sessions an access to music Charity focused on the socially excluded and is also a member of the Honorary Treasurers Forum.
James Drury
A journalist for over 20 years, James is IQ Magazine’s Special Projects Editor, overseeing publications such as the European Festival Report, Global Arenas Guide, International Ticketing Report, Global Promoters Report and the Touring Entertainment Report.
He is also editor of the Barbican’s monthly Guide magazine, and writes on culture for a variety of national and international publications.
As a regular presenter James has appeared at conferences such as the ILMC, Canadian Music Week, MIDEM, and The Great Escape, and appeared on the BBC, France 24, ITV and more. He is former Managing Director of the UK and European Festival Awards.
Hannah McKearnen
Hannah has worked in the NHS for 10 years, mostly within cancer. She graduated with a degree in English Language in 2016 and has since worked as a Macmillan Professional, first in a community engagement role, and for the last 3 years in the Macmillan Information and Support Service. Hannah enjoys going to gigs and festivals and is passionate about access to live music, having volunteered with Attitude is Everything at Glastonbury and Leeds.
Hannah McLennan
Hannah studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 2018. Alongside her studies she volunteered as an advisor at Citizens Advice, specialising in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications. After graduating, Hannah joined the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a Research Officer. Her work included analysis into Universal Credit and pensions, as well as spending three months in a Jobcentre setting up benefit claims during the first COVID-19 lockdown. She joined UK Music as Parliamentary and Research Manager in June 2021. She leads on the sustainability and health and wellbeing work strands, plus UK Music’s work with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Music. She has worked closely with the UK Music Diversity Taskforce since May 2022, including on the 2022 Diversity Report.
Rachael Burton
Rachael is a Producer at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol and is currently producing Playable City Sandbox – putting people and play at the heart of future cities. She has ten years of experience working within the creative sector in the UK and internationally. Rachael has produced large-scale multi-partnership research projects, and her experience spans strategic planning, programme design and delivery, artist support and project management. Rachael supports artists and SMEs in both creative and business development across a breadth of art forms. In her spare time, Rachael enjoys any opportunity to attend a gig, go to the theatre or an exhibition.
Ray Pope
Ray is Director of Creative Talent Acquisition at Universal Music UK where she oversees recruitment for all of the labels and central UK teams. She was part of the team that worked on Creative Differences, Universal Music UK’s handbook for embracing neurodiversity in the creative industries. A focus on neurodiversity and inclusion is baked into every process that Ray oversees. Since the launch of the handbook, Ray has changed recruitment processes from application to hire to ensure candidate experiences are accessible. She also offers support to neurodiverse employees and helps facilitate workplace needs assessments, access to supportive technology and assistance in securing access to a diagnosis via Universal’s neurodiversity partners. Ray is dyslexic and has ADHD so knows first-hand the challenges of thinking differently while trying to advance a career in a fast-paced creative industry. She is on the board of Leeds University Music School and she works with charitable organisations to boost inclusion and diversity across the industry. Ray is also a music graduate, a classically trained singer, and a lover of soul music, R’n’B and Gospel.