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Overview
Speakers
Jane Muirhead
Meeting
Jane co-founded Glasgow-based Raise the Roof in 2010 and as MD oversees all operations and the strategic direction of the company.
Raise the Roof Productions has delivered over 800 hours of network TV and sold to numerous countries worldwide and top titles include Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It. Under Jane’s leadership, Raise the Roof has featured in the top 20 Broadcast Best Places to Work in TV in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and in the top ten in subsequent years. Jane is currently Chair of Pact Council and co-chairs the Scottish TV Working Group.
Jane has lived and breathed the highs and lows of running an indie and understands what it means to be at the coal face. She has always worked tirelessly to champion the sector through her work with Pact, her engagement with stakeholders and membership of industry groups. Jane was awarded an honorary Professorship from Stirling University in 2018.
Jane believes passionately in recruiting, training and growing the next and current generations of talent and this ambition has diversity at its core.
Nigel has extensive experience in both the political and creative sectors, having been Special Advisor (SpAd) to the Rt Hon Mo Mowlam MP at the Northern Ireland Office and Cabinet Office, and also SpAd to the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Following his time in Government, Nigel became Director of Public Affairs at ITV for four years at a crucial time for the future of the public service broadcaster. He then co-founded Creative Access with a mission for the UK media to become more inclusive, which is now an industry-funded social enterprise. He has also written for the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) on policy for the media and creative industries.
More recently Nigel was the UK Policy Consultant for the Motion Picture Association as well as Special Counsel at strategic communications consultancy, Lexington, where he focussed for more than ten years on policy issues of concern to the creative industries providing policy, strategy and political communications advice.
