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Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Portrait of Andrew Wallace

    Andrew Wallace

    Andrew is one of Leathwaite’s founding partners and in 2023 was appointed Chair. He leads the Board and oversees the strategy and direction of the firm, assesses progress against its global ambition and supports the managing partners in ensuring Leathwaite achieves its goals. He leads on culture, ESG and purpose ensuring the firm is fully focused […]

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  • Heather Walker

    Heather Walker has spent her career working for artistic and cultural organisations in a range of roles across operations, programming, business planning and change management, delivering complex projects and constantly driving business improvement. She is currently the Director of Operations at the Royal Opera House responsible a range of functions including technical, production, visitor experience, […]

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  • Richard Walker

    Born in Chester in 1980, Richard graduated in geography from Durham University and then qualified as a chartered surveyor. He developed his own property businesses in Poland and the UK before joining Iceland, the company founded by his father Malcolm, in 2012. Richard spent his first year with the business as a full-time shelf-stacker and […]

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  • Julie Waddell

    Julie grew up in Northern Ireland, surrounded by cooking as her Grandparents were in the catering trade. After University, Julie ended up working as a radio news presented at the BBC in 2005. Julie’s passion for food and broadcasting came together when she took on a role on BBC Radio 4 as a journalist on […]

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  • Gavin Wade

    Gavin Wade is an artist-curator and founder of Eastside Projects, an artist-run multiverse in Birmingham, and is also Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. After living and working in London from 1991-2004 Gavin returned to his home town Birmingham with his family in 2004. He proposed a new artist-run space as public gallery and […]

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  • Robert Wainwright

    Family business background and dyslexic, after taking himself back to college to gain a business degree Rob spent most of his career working for European companies as CEO/MD of their UK&I subsidiaries, and included overseas sourcing and travel (Europe, USA, Far East).  Keen on outdoor activities Rob has climbed in the Himalayas (Ama Dablam) and […]

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  • Jenny Waldman

    Jenny Waldman is Director of the First World War Centenary Cultural Programme, which will take place in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Previously she was Creative Producer of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London 2012 Festival ran for 12 weeks, involved hundreds […]

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  • Suzanne Virdee

    Suzanne Virdee is an award winning and highly experienced TV News Journalist and Presenter. She currently presents the ITV National Weekend News and ITV London news programmes. She is freelance and also works for the BBC reporting on features and documentaries for BBC R4 and BBC Inside Out. Previously Suzanne presented the BBC regional news […]

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  • Johannes von Stumm

    1959 born in Munich, 1980 – 83 Law and Politics at University Munich !984 – 89 Studies sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Diploma 1995 Move to England 1997 Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors 2003 Founding member of Sculpture Network (Europe) 2004 Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors […]

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  • Edward Vince

    Ed Vince is a London-based Creative Director currently leading the International Team at Airbnb, where he oversees all of the advertising outside of the US. Ed spent five years in California working for both Apple and Facebook before returning to the UK. Prior to this he led his own design studio, working on publishing projects […]

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