Ian Andrews
Ian is a qualified solicitor and was a partner at Linklaters for 22 years. He is a director of Athens International Airport, serving on the company’s finance committee, and has advised on infrastructure projects in almost every country in Europe as well as in the Middle East, Asia and the US. Ian’s patronage and fundraising activities combine his extensive experience of international law and governance with his lifelong love of the arts in London, where he is also a member of the advisory council of the British Museum.

Annette Campbell-White
Annette is an accomplished executive venture capitalist and was founder and senior managing partner of MedVenture Associates. She has extensive experience as a founding or lead investor into successful companies within biomedical technology. Annette is a strong supporter of the arts, having served on the board of a number of organisations including the San Francisco Opera, Cal Performances and the Wikipedia Endowment Advisory Board. She was named philanthropist of the year at the 2018 International Opera Awards.  

Alan Gemes
Alan has wide expertise in strategy and business planning, having been a strategy consulting partner at Booz Allen Hamilton and PwC for 30 years. In the commercial world, Alan is on the board of ICBC (London) plc, where he chairs both the risk and compliance committee and the remuneration committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Sydney and a Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales. Alan has been a member of the board of The English Concert since 2013 and chairs the strategy and planning committee.

Virginia Gabbertas
As former owner and CEO of Fairs & Exhibitions Ltd., Gini's 35-year career specialised in organising high-profile international trade fairs and exhibitions in the Middle East, India and Hong Kong. Gini founded the Dubai Airshow, which continues to be one of the world's leading forums for the global aerospace and civil aviation sector.  She has considerable experience in contract negotiation and project delivery within the public and corporate sectors. Gini is a major supporter and patron of the performing arts, with principal interests in assisting talented young artists progress their careers and improving access to music education.  In 2002, she was awarded an MBE for services to industry and exports.

Richard Golding
Richard studied theoretical particle physics at the University of Oxford, receiving his DPhil in 1976. Pursuing a career in finance, he advised major UK financial institutions on government debt and worked on futures, options and index-linked debt. In the 1990s, he worked at Kleinwort Benson and in Nomura’s Principal Finance Group, where he devised and executed innovative methods to finance business. He is a founder of Anthem Corporate Finance and a member of the Oxford physics department development board. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a member of the London Mathematical Society.

Alan Harley
Dr Alan Harley has spent his career in finance, where he continues to work. Most of his work has been with investment banks, where he created and managed businesses within structured credit, and more recently he has worked to launch a new retail bank. With wide-ranging interests, including a passion for Handel opera, he brings treasury and risk management experience to his involvement within early music. 

Peter Kerber
Dr Peter Kerber is an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century Italian painting and its relationships with music, literature and theology. He has worked as the director of the picture gallery at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and as a curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. He is the author of Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Getty Publications, 2017) and co-author of Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Yale University Press, 2007). He is a trustee of the Handel House Trust and The European Fine Art Foundation.

Vivienne Monk
Vivienne has a professional background in psychology and occupational health. She has over twenty years of experience as a senior manager in healthcare, biomedical education and clinical research. She has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, Asia and the UK. Vivienne’s experience includes general management within the private and public sectors in occupational and organisational psychology. She works as a strategic projects lead at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London. Her personal interests in music include opera and early and baroque music. As an amateur musician, she plays renaissance and baroque lutes. Vivienne is a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Nicky Oppenheimer
A barrister by training, Nicky has combined her legal background with a focus on personnel and resources. She was head of corporate services in the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Ministry of Justice) and then in the Cabinet Office. She left the civil service to become a partner at Odgers Berndtson, a leading search firm, where she set up practices in government and the arts. As a lover of baroque music, Nicky has been a board member of various musical organisations for the past 25 years.

Janet Reeve
Janet is a strategic consultant and experienced development director. Early in her career, she led stand-out capital campaigns for Sadler’s Wells Theatre and Somerset House at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked extensively within classical music, including Garsington Opera, where she helped complete the capital campaign for Garsington Studios. She has worked internationally and brings a deep understanding of the performing arts, including company dynamics, commercial versus artistic demands, as well as media and donor relations.

Isabella de Sabata
Isabella has extensive experience in all aspects of the music business, from artist management to concert and festival organising, costume design, fundraising and PR. She was head of international artist promotion for Deutsche Grammophon and most recently founded and ran the independent label SDG. She has produced numerous prize-winning recordings. 

Joe Smouha
Joe Smouha KC is a barrister practising at Essex Court Chambers in London.  He is widely recognised as one of the leading silks at the commercial Bar and as an advocate in international litigation and arbitration in areas including banking and finance, civil fraud and art and cultural property law. He studied at the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright Scholar to the New York University School of Law. He is a former chair of the Commercial Bar Association, member of the Bar Council, former head of Essex Court Chambers and is a Bencher of Middle Temple. He has been a trustee of The English Concert since 2003 and also serves on the board of the British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Hugh Tilney
Hugh spent 28 years in the insurance industry at Lloyds of London, before moving to New York to run an investment management company. He has been a trustee of The English Concert since 2011 and also serves on the board of TEC sister charity, The English Concert in America and the Airey Neave Trust.

Simon Weil
Throughout his career, Simon has specialised in advising ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals about philanthropy and charitable giving. He has acted for numerous charities within grant-giving, fundraising, and service providing, and often a combination of these. He is a partner at Charles Russell Speechlys and a member of the Charity Law Association. In 2005, he became the chair of The European Association of Philanthropy and Giving (EAPG) and was the first chair of Philanthropy Impact, following EAPG’s merger with Philanthropy UK and Philanthropy Forum in 2012.