BPI Equality Sessions: Intl Women’s Day - Women in the Music Industry
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BPI Equality Sessions
International Women’s Day – Women in the Music Industry
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As part of our ongoing efforts around Equality and Inclusion, we are delighted to announce a new series of events dedicated to exploring matters around underrepresented categories in our industry, as well as shining a light on inspirational figures who are making a difference in their fields and paving the way for new generations to thrive in a more diverse and inclusive music business.
For International Women’s Day, on Mar 8th, 4pm - 6pm, we are celebrating the women that power our industry, and we are excited to host some phenomenal speakers who will talk us through their experiences, in what we’re hoping will make for an illuminating and empowering afternoon.
Here's what we have lined up:
Event Chair: MJ Olaore - Chief Operating Officer, BPI
Introductory Keynote: Where We Are Now - Paulette Long OBE - Co-Chair, BPI Equality & Justice Advisory Group and Deputy Chair of the UK Music Diversity Task Force
A reflection on the UK Music Diversity Survey – a lived experience.
Discussion Panel: Reaching Music Industry Heights
Liz Goodwin – General Manager, Atlantic Records UK
Maggie Crowe OBE - Director of Events & Charities, BPI
Pat Carr – Founder & CEO, Remote Control Agency
Taponeswa Mavunga – Director of Africa, Sony Music UK
Chair: Jasmine Dotiwala – Broadcaster & Journalist
Discussion Panel: Working for the Greater Good
Janine Irons MBE – Co-founder & CEO, Tomorrow’s Warriors
Natalie Wade – Founder & CEO, Small Green Shoots
Pamela McCormick – Founder & Director, Urban Development
Wozzy Brewster OBE FRSA - Founder & Executive Director, The Midi Music Company
Chair: Indy Vidyalankara - PR & Comms consultant, Founder, Indypendent PR
Link to attend
BPI Equality Sessions: International Women’s Day – Women in the Music Industry
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About our Speakers:
MJ Olaore - Chief Operating Officer, BPI
MJ Olaore is BPI’s Chief Operating Officer, where she oversees day-to-day operational and financial affairs, plus development of its commercial activities, as well as leading on all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion initiatives.
MJ grew up in Nigeria and Scotland, and studied law at Liverpool University before taking on her first role at Price Waterhouse in London. MJ has since gone on to develop a distinguished and successful career in broadcast media and entertainment, rising to senior management positions at London News Radio, Virgin Radio and its successor Absolute Radio, all the while developing a broad range of skills across advertising and sales, IT, broadcast engineering, facilities, legal, strategy and research, finance, and operations. Prior to joining the BPI, MJ served as Chief Operating Officer at leading independent market research company Firefish, where she was instrumental in managing its growth from a single UK entity to an eight-company group, with businesses in the USA, Singapore and the Netherlands.
Paulette Long OBE - Co-Chair, BPI Equality & Justice Advisory Group and Deputy Chair of the UK Music Diversity Task Force
Paulette Long has worked within the music industry for 35 years. Beginning her career in music PR with Alan Edwards, she specialised in regional press for artistes as diverse as Smiley Culture, Luther Vandross, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Jagger. Paulette joined Westbury Music in 1988 working within all areas of publishing from licensing, artist development and business affairs to royalty accounts and distribution.
In 2004 Paulette was elected to the board of directors at the Music Publishers Association and 2005 saw her take the role as a Trustee for the PRS for Music Foundation serving as Vice Chair and now an Ambassador. Other directorships include Urban Voice and Urban Development, (Chair) a one-stop organisation for East London’s new urban music talent.
2008 saw Paulette elected to the board of directors for PRS for Music the first Black person and in 2011 she was elected for a term by their board to serve as their Deputy Chair (Publisher).
Paulette is also a Board Trustee of the PRS for Music Members Fund and a founding member of ADMM (The Alliance for Diversity in Music and Media) who successfully created the UK music industry’s first Diversity Charter (formally adopted by UK Music). Paulette currently sits as Deputy Chair of the UK Music Diversity Task Force and co-Chair of the BPI Equality & Justice Group. In 2016 Paulette was added to Music Week’s ‘Women In Music Roll Of Honour’ and later that year received an OBE for services to the music industry.
Liz Goodwin – General Manager, Atlantic Records UK
Liz Goodwin took over as General Manager of Atlantic Records UK in April 2020. She is responsible for overseeing the long-term career strategy for Atlantic UK’s diverse roster of superstars and developing artists. At the same time, she works closely with the Marketing, Digital, Creative, and PR teams to devise and deliver comprehensive, first-class campaigns.
Liz started her music career as a Label Coordinator at ZTT Records in 2000, before moving to Polydor Records in 2001. While at Polydor, Goodwin rose through the ranks, becoming Head of Marketing and then Head of Campaign Strategy. During this time, she was responsible for developing and overseeing the creative and marketing strategies for a range of artists including Lana Del Rey, for which she was instrumental in setting the approach and aesthetic tone for her first three albums. She also led the award-winning campaign for Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid, which sold over one million copies in the UK, as well as countless other campaigns for the likes of Eminem, Imagine Dragons, Lady Gaga, Shura, Snow Patrol, and more.
As UK Managing Director of Glassnote Entertainment since 2016, Goodwin led the company through campaigns for established and breaking artists, including Childish Gambino, Dylan Cartlidge, Half Moon Run, Mosa Wild, and Jade Bird. She was named in Music Week’s Women in Music Roll of Honour in 2018.
Maggie Crowe OBE - Director of Events & Charities, BPI
Maggie Crowe joined the BPI in March 1986, after her first baptism of fire working in the UK music industry for the formidable Steve Mason (Windsong International/Pinnacle Records). In 2005, she was appointed events director over the BRIT Awards and has led on that project on behalf of BPI’s board of management since. She also oversees the Classic BRITs, BRITs Icon and the Hyundai Mercury Music Prize.
Maggie is the Administrator of the BRIT Trust charity and plays an intrinsic role in many areas of The BRIT School where her passion lies in helping the School in any which way she can. Her overall enthusiasm for all the projects that the Trust has funded over the years spills out onto her fellow trustees and work colleagues.
Working for the commercial arm of the BPI, running their events including the BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize, she is best placed to talk about the charity and how giving back as an Industry is vital to future generations – not just for the creative industry but for society as a whole.
Maggie was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Years Honour list, which she is inordinately proud of – she still feels someone has made a mistake and will ask for it back!
She lives in South London, is married and has two sons.
Pat Carr – Founder & CEO, Remote Control Agency
Pat has worked in the industry for over 30 years, while award-winning as a marketing specialist, she has also run 3 successful independent companies, including the much-loved Infectious Music (twice!). She has worked on artists as diverse as the Mercury Prize winning alt-J, DMA’s, Blondie, Ry X, Ash, Local Natives, Sparks, Rick Astley and the labels Rise, Perfecto and RAM. In her last role as SVP built the successful frontline marketing and digital team at BMG UK. In 2001 she set up the first ever UK label management and artist services consultancy and after an 8-year "hiatus" at Infectious and BMG set up the new Remote Control which she runs today. In 2020 she teamed up with longtime buddy and co-conspirator Stephen Taverner of East City Management (alt-J, Wolf Alice etc) and set up the indie label The Vertex as a side project!
Pat was enrolled in the Women in Music Roll of Honour in 2015 and was voted onto the BPI Council in 2019 representing the Independent labels. She also serves on the board of the Music Export Growth Scheme and the International Committee.
Taponeswa Mavunga – Director of Africa, Sony Music UK
Taponeswa has established herself as one of the most well-respected executives in the industry and a passionate champion for the Afrobeats movement. Taponeswa was named Director of Africa at Sony Music UK last year and is responsible for working with Sony’s labels to amplify UK signed artists across Africa, as well as supporting artists within Africa to develop relationships, identify opportunities and increase visibility within the UK.
Taponeswa joined Sony Music as Head of Publicity for Columbia UK in 2015, where she oversaw press strategy across the label’s roster and spearheaded campaigns for artists including Childish Gambino, Koffee, Wizkid, Davido and Rosalia. She was previously based in Johannesburg as Head of Talent and Music for Viacom Africa working on MTV Base, BET Africa and Nickelodeon channels. Prior to that, she was at Atlantic Records for more than 15 years and worked on global artist campaigns including Ed Sheeran, JAY Z, Rudimental and Sean Paul.
In 2018, Tapi was named on BBC Woman’s Hour “Women in Music” Power List.
Jasmine Dotiwala - Broadcaster & Journalist
Jasmine Dotiwala has over 20 years of experience as a Head
of department, manager, broadcaster, producer, director and columnist at brands
like Netflix UK, Media Trust, Channel 4 News, MTV and more.
As a multi-media reporter and producer as
well as a reputed D&I specialist, Jasmine developed the industry lauded,
ground-breaking Media Trust broadcast trainee programme London360 whose (over
400 to date) diverse alumni have since taken up senior positions all across TV
broadcasters and the creative industries in the UK.
In addition, Jasmine continues to report on
groundbreaking Arts and culture stories for Channel 4 News including reports on
Stormzy and mental health, TLC and Black Lives Matter and exclusives with music
names like J Hus, Charlie XCX, Goldie and more. Simultaneously, Jasmine also
reports on Arts & Culture stories for Sky News and appears as a regular
panel guest on Jeremy Vine on 5. She also hosted a weekly arts & culture
show “The Scene” on BBC Radio London.
Jasmine writes columns and print press
opinion pieces for platforms from The Voice (14 years), The Source Magazine,
Huffington Post UK, The Metro and more.
Jasmine was a key senior figure at MTV for
over 13 years where she went from the early years as an MTV News presenter all
across the UK and Europe, to Head of MTV News, eventually heading up MTV Base
and MTV Dance production. She also returns annually to produce at the MTV
Europe Music Awards. Jasmine is a member of the BAFTA voting academy, the Royal
Television Society Futures committee, the MOBO Voting Academy and the BPI
Equality and Justice Advisory Group committee.
Janine Irons MBE – Co-founder & CEO, Tomorrow’s Warriors
Janine Irons originally trained as a classical pianist and then went on to study dance and later photography. In her early career, Janine worked for a major classical music publisher, before heading to the City of London to pursue a career in the financial sector. She left the City to become a freelance photographer/journalist, but it was the work of her partner Gary Crosby OBE that inspired her to co-create Tomorrow’s Warriors and Dune Records, the independent jazz label co-founded with Crosby. Janine was nominated for a European Federation of Black Women Business Owners award in 1999 and was awarded an MBE for Services to the Music Industry in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, on the SheSaid.So Alternative Power List 2019 and in 2020 was honoured among 24 peers and trailblazers in the industry by Music Week as part of its prestigious Women In Music Roll Of Honour.
Natalie Wade – Founder & CEO, Small Green Shoots
Natalie Wade, founder of award-winning youth-led charity and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation "Small Green Shoots" and new female-focused support network "The Cats Mother". Appearing on the Queens Honours List, winning the Artists & Managers Award for "Unsung Hero" and recently inducted into the Music Week Women in Music Roll of Honour, Natalie champions young people from low-income and diverse backgrounds, supporting them into music industry "careers"encouraging them to be future decision makers. in the sector. More recently, her team of "Young Shoots" raised over £370K in funding for emerging artists, black creatives and small music organisations across the pandemic.
Pamela McCormick – Founder & Director, Urban Development
Pamela grew up in Belfast in the 1970s through the era of pub bombings, barricades, daily murders and little integration. As her ethos and challenging of the origins of the troubles matured, Pamela realised that poverty and lack of opportunities and aspiration were at the heart of the problems. This insight has become the keystone upon which Pamela, has built her career as a leader and visionary over two decades in music and the arts, as the Founder and Director of youth music organisation, talent incubator, educator and charity Urban Development.
After working in Edinburgh, Monte Carlo and Paris, programming and producing jazz events and assisting esteemed composers, concert pianists and conductors, Pamela arrived in London, keen to realise her dreams and action positive social change. 18 years on, with McCormick still at the helm, now a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England, Urban Development has music industry funding partners such as PRS Foundation, Youth Music, BRIT Trust, Vivendi Create Joy/Universal as well as Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. The organisation has built a lasting legacy and reputation as a leader when it comes to producing high quality events and tours that showcase the talents of urban artists in the UK to young audiences. In the last 2 years, the organisation has expanded to create a charitable arm Urban Development Music Foundation, which operates in the country’s poorest and most diverse boroughs – and Urban Development Music, which operates like a record label, talent incubator, production house, recording studio and publisher, with a growing roster of artists including first signing Devlin.
Wozzy Brewster OBE FRSA - Founder & Executive Director, The Midi Music Company
Wozzy is a creative entrepreneur with thirty-nine years’ experience of designing and delivering creative projects in Theatre, New Media and Music. In 1995 Wozzy founded the registered music education and talent development charity, The Midi Music Company.
Wozzy has worked with 2,000+ young people to achieve their creative goals, providing guidance and support in order to assist them with achieving their aspirations. She has co-ordinated the Prince’s Trusts’ ‘A Place in Europe’ project [1994], LWT Talent Challenge programme [1997 & 1998] and founded MMC’s creative industries careers advice service: CICAS® in 1997. Wozzy received her OBE for services to Youth Arts in 2002 and throughout her career has received a number of awards and commendations for her services to international youth arts initiatives and outstanding contribution to pan-European understanding and progress, providing an inspiration to others.
Along with her role at MMC, Wozzy is currently a co-founder and Board of Director of BAFA UK, and she is the Artist manager of southeast London’s Future Afro Jazz band, United Vibrations and Lewisham-based 8-piece Ska Reggae band, Chainska Brassika, along with being a member of the UK Music Diversity Taskforce and MMF Education Committee.
Indy Vidyalankara - PR & Comms consultant, Founder, Indypendent PR
Indy Vidyalankara is the founder of Indypendent PR, a boutique music PR, comms and brand consultancy, with clients such as MOBO, Nitin Sawhney, Youth, Jules Buckley, Tomorrow’s Warriors, Girls I Rate, Gary Crosby OBE, Carla Marie Williams, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and more. She is currently part-time Head of Communications at pioneering talent development organisation and charity Tomorrow’s Warriors. Prior to that she served for two years as Head Of Strategic Communications at leading music charity Help Musicians. Indy is an accomplished Communications executive with a diverse career spanning over two decades across music, media and third sector in high profile organisations such as Sony Music UK, Saatchi & Saatchi, with 11 years at the BBC in publicity across BBC Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra and BBC TV. As well as being a member of the BPI Equality and Justice Advisory Group, she is a member of the UK Music Diversity Taskforce. She is also a Trustee of charities: One World Media, Parents In Performing Arts and Midi Music Company. Indy was the first woman of colour in the role of Sony Music UK Director Of Communications, her second tenure at the major label following her three year stint at Columbia Records, where she started her career in music. In 2020, Indy became an honouree of the SheSaid.So Alternative Power 100 Music list.
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