Trustees and Committee Members

A Trustee of Tomorrow’s Warriors Trust since inception in 2012, Viv has had a long and varied career in music and creative businesses.

Starting out as a drummer with artists like David Bowie and the Pretty Things, he went on to become a founding Director of The Voice, Britain’s first black-owned newspaper group. As Marketing Director, he built the circulation of The Voice up to a high of 55,000 copies per week.

Viv is currently Owner and CEO of The Premises Studios in Shoreditch where, as well as running the 24 music studios on a daily basis, he pursues a lifelong interest in Gospel Music, having written two acclaimed books on the subject, including the definitive ‘Too Close To Heaven: The Illustrated History Of Gospel Music’ which was turned into a three-part Channel Four documentary. He has extensive board-level experience with several charities and business groups.

Ghana-born and UK-educated, Margaret has been a Tomorrow’s Warriors trustee since 2016.

Her career spans working as an editor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist, dramatist, critic and journalist, though she is most often recognised for having been Britain’s youngest and first Black woman publisher, co-founding Allison & Busby in 1967 (with an international list of such notable authors as Buchi Emecheta, Val Wilmer, Nuruddin Farah, C.L.R. James, Michael Moorcock, Jill Murphy, Adrian Mitchell, Michael Horovitz, Sam Greenlee, Roy Heath, George Lamming, Andrew Salkey and Ishmael Reed).

She edited the pioneering volumes Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) and 2019’s New Daughters of Africa (initiating a scholarship for African women at London University’s SOAS). She has also judged numerous literary awards, among them the 2020 Booker Prize, and in 2023 was appointed the president of English PEN.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Peter qualified at KPMG in 1977 and spent his entire career in the financial sector. At Equity & Law, he developed and implemented a new investment portfolio monitoring system. He worked as a financial accountant at the London offices of North Carolina National Bank (now Bank of America) and Creditanstalt Bankverein, and as Deputy Managing Director/Finance Director of Riggs Bank in London (a Washington DC headquartered bank). After 35 years in the financial sector, he developed and ran his own finance business, which he sold in 2008.

Peter was elected as a Borough Councillor for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in May 2011, and was appointed Deputy Lead Member for Planning and Enforcement and Vice Chairman of Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny. He did not seek re-election following his move to London in 2015. Peter was the Honorary Treasurer for Sunningdale Golf Club from 2011-2014, and for the Old Stoic Society from 2013-2019.

Peter is passionate about supporting young talent and creating opportunities for all. He joined our Board as Honorary Treasurer in 2024.

Nick joined the Tomorrow’s Warriors Trust board in August 2022. He manages the Customer Success team at Adobe in the UK, working with the company’s largest clients. He has a background in digital marketing, having worked with brands including Virgin Atlantic, IHG and Save the Children. 

Nick is passionate about the importance of creating equal opportunities for young people from all backgrounds and fell in love with Tomorrow’s Warriors when he saw the impact that they’ve had making the jazz music industry more diverse and representative.

Gloria Fagbemiro is an experienced executive leader and consultant with over 20 years in organisational development and strategic management. She has worked across sectors as a management consultant and senior executive, specialising in transformation, strategic planning, and business advisory. As Founder and Director of Dynamic Development Consulting, she provides tailored consultancy and executive management services to SMEs and charities. Gloria also serves on the Advisory Board of Be the Business’s national productivity programme. 

For more than 12 years, Gloria was Chief Operating Officer at Tomorrow’s Warriors, supporting the Directors during a pivotal period of growth and consolidation. In this role, she led on strategic planning, fundraising, HR, compliance, and operational management, and continues to bring a wealth of institutional knowledge, governance expertise, and passion for inclusive talent development to the Tomorrow’s Warriors Trust. 

Camilla George is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader and innovator and Tomorrow’s Warriors alumna. With her musical blend of Afrofuturism, hip-hop and jazz, Camilla has become an influential figure on the new London Jazz scene.

Camilla studied with many jazz greats, including saxophone giant Jean Toussaint (of Art Blakey fame), Julian Siegel and Martin Speake at Trinity College of Music, where she gained a master’s degree in jazz performance. She was awarded The Archer Scholarship for outstanding performance in 2011.

Camilla has been a trustee of Tomorrow’s Warriors since 2023 and is a success story of the TW development programme, having joined aged just 11 years old, when she met founders Gary Crosby OBE and Janine Irons OBE. As a TW alumna and professional artist, she brings lived experience and beneficiary perspective to the Board.

Jez is a media executive, radio presenter, radio and TV producer, occasional concert promoter and a life-long jazz fan.  

He began his career as a pirate radio DJ founding K-Jazz with Gilles Peterson and Chris Philips in 1985. A founding presenter/producer for London’s Jazz FM in 1990 he went on host radio shows for Kiss FM and BBC Radio 3,4 and 5 Live as well as TV shows for BBC2 and 1. In 1991 he founded Somethin’ Else a production company that worked in TV, digital, marketing, talent management and became the UK’s leading independent audio production company making thousands of successful radio shows and podcasts. He sold the business to Sony Music in 2021. He was awarded an MBE for services to Radio in 2020.  

Today he acts a Non-Executive for audio post-production company Forever Audio, hosts a show on Jazz FM and has recently re-united with Chris Philips to launch the world’s first 24/7 global jazz radio station – One Jazz. He also co-curates and hosts the long running Jazz In The Round nights.  

Jez brings unrivalled media expertise, entrepreneurial vision and a lifelong passion for jazz, strengthening the Trust’s ability to champion and showcase new talent. 

Nicky’s career in the arts began at youth theatre, affirming that young people from all backgrounds deserve the chance to explore their creativity in a supportive environment. This seminal experience is why she champions Tomorrow’s Warriors, bringing a creative, lateral thinking approach to the Board of Trustees.

She has a wide-ranging experience of the Arts, having worked in administration, marketing, and management at organisations such as Southbank Centre, Serious (jazz promoters and producers) and Greenwich & Docklands Festival. For over 25 years she was associated with Grammy winning independent record label World Circuit where she had roles including Art Director, Strategic Consultant and Company Director before the label was sold to BMG. She has been a Trustee for two years and is currently pursuing a career as a ceramicist.

Tove has a background in strategic marketing and content creation, with extensive experience in commercial and non-profit sectors and specialising in media, entertainment and sport. She is currently the Group Partnerships Director for the BBC, overseeing a portfolio of nearly 400 partnerships with organisations and institutions across the UK, and was formerly the chief executive of London Sport, a non-profit organisation using sport and physical activity for social change in London. 

Previously she led two sport and entertainment marketing agencies, WPP-owned MEC Access and Havas Sports & Entertainment and spent 10 years at the BBC in senior brand marketing roles. Her career started in the arts at the London Symphony Orchestra and marketing the South Bank Centre’s music programme which allowed her to follow her lifelong passion for music, and particularly jazz. 

Alongside her executive roles, she has served on boards for many years, most recently as vice-chair at Sport England, trustee at Catch 22, a social business which supports young people, and the Media Trust. 

Chris joined the Board in 2021. He has not only a lifelong passion for jazz, but also a real passion for supporting music industry clients and was recognised in the Centrip Top 25 Accountants in Music and Entertainment. 

He started his accountancy practice, C C Panayi & Co in 1980. His practice joined top firm, Hentons in 2018, where he continues to work as Senior Partner, actively involved with all aspects of the Hentons business, providing high profile international and rising star musicians, as well as other industry-related businesses, with sound business and financial advice. He is also a Music Manager Forum (MMF) Associate Member. 

Chris and Tomorrow’s Warriors share the same values and beliefs in that music talent should be nurtured, allow to fully grow, and the lack of financial resources should not be a hindrance to that achievement. Also that those who have had the privilege of working and succeeding in the music industry should afford the opportunity to the next generation to also enjoy the fruits of their talents.

Sandra has 30 years’ regeneration and development director and non-exec experience, is a massive jazz fan and supporter of young people in education and employment projects, Chair of Governors at Cotham School Bristol and former Chair of the Bristol Jazz Festival.

Sandra is a regenerator at heart and has led projects working with politicians and stakeholders to deliver new homes, schools, leisure centres and community hubs. Sandra is a Trustee of the Town and Country Planning Association, Chair of Blueprint Regeneration partnership between Nottingham City Council and Igloo, and a former Board Member and Chair of the Planning Committee of the government’s Ebbsfleet Garden City.

As a long-term Tomorrow’s Warriors supporter, and having been co-opted in 2023, Sandra is chairing the Capital Appeal Committee, leading the Warriors Headquarters/jazz hub capital project, working with the team and Warriors community to agree the vision for the HQ, the detailed specification, and funding plan to ensure long term sustainability for the organisation.

Jude’s experience is in private equity, specialising in early stage unquoted companies.  She was an Investment Director at 3i Group Plc for 9 years, subsequently setting up a consultancy, providing venture capital advice to small and medium sized businesses in return for equity. Over 40 years, she has worked with many company boards in a quasi non-executive capacity, deriving huge pleasure from helping them grow from small to big.

For 10 years, she was a non-executive Board member of the Independent Television Commission (ITC), the precursor to Ofcom, and the then regulator of all commercial television, cable & satellite in the UK.

Jude was also a non-executive director of Moorfields Eye Hospital (10 years) which led to her appointment as one of the Founder Directors of the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (6 years), the regulator charged with the approval, monitoring & compliance aspects of all Foundation Trusts. She is a former trustee of The King’s Fund. She was co-opted to the Capital Appeal Committee in 2022.