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Trustees and Committee Members

Trustees

STEVE ABBOTT

Trustee

Steve is an artist manager, live agent, record producer and concert promoter whose passion for music and inclusion shines through in equal measure in everything he does.

Formerly a singer/songwriter, Steve grew up in Luton and was lead singer of the band UK Decay from 1979 to 1983.

He is the founder of Harmonic Artists Ltd, an artist management and concert agency for a number of artists, including Zara McFarlane, Jules Buckley, Cerys Matthews, Lang Lang, Joe Hisaishi, Carroll Thompson, Damian Lewis, Guy Chambers, and Cherise. Steve was appointed to the Tomorrow’s Warriors Trust board in 2020.

Viv Broughton

Trustee, Chair of Trustees; Capital Committee Member

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.

Margaret Busby, CBE

Trustee

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.

peter comber, FCA

Trustee; Honorary Treasurer

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 CORNFORTH

Trustee

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.

Camilla George

Trustee

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.

NICKY O’DONNELL

Trustee

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.

Jude Goffe

Capital Committee Member

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.

CHRIS PANAYI

Trustee; Capital Committee Member

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 Fryer

Capital Committee Member, Chair

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.

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