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Whoo makes a notable coontributioon too making Brigghton and Hove the place we know w and lovee? Whoo is shaping ourr city? Who exeercisses poweer or innfluence over our livves? Manyy moore peoplee thann those whho make up our Peoople 100 – the secoond time we haavee caarried outt thiss exercisee – but those listed here reppresent a good start.. Soome of them play a key role in runningg significant local organisations – the council, police and health servicce. Others lead our schools and univeersities, our arts organisatiions or sports clubbs. Some are in the business world from m shops, financiaal services or the professioons of law annd accountancy. Touurism and hosspitality andd the burgeoning digital seector are alsoo represennted. Charities and voluntaryy organisations tooo. It is im mpressive to see how many reach out beyyond their day job to bring their skills, experieence and innfluence to bear in other wayys to try to make Brigghton and Hove a better placce to be. This is not a perfecct list nor does it claim to be. It is noot comprehennsive by any meaans. It
merely scraatches thhe surface annd in a waay which – if last year is anything too go by – may prompt questionss, stirr debate annd even some controveersy. The geender balance is out of kilter – as it so often is in wider socciety – andd the list is predominantly white. Whole fields, such as architecture and reeligion, have gonne unrepresented. Brighton and Hove is also home to many people who operaate on a bigger stage elsewhere – in sciennce and medical research, government andd the media to name just a few. Others affect Brighton and Hoove from their possition elseewhere. But they are figures in natioonal annd internatioonal life who have been omitt tted ass they also affect so many people in so manyy placces. As previiously, this list must come with a raft of heaalth warnings. It is just a glimpse, a highly subjectivee one at thaat, and although in the cold mediuum of a printed newspaper, it is a finished prodduct, inn reality it iss just a starting point. Perhhaps thee starting pooint for next year’s list. Feeel free to let us have youur suggestions.
"If one meets a powerful person, ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' "If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system." - Tony Benn
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Sue Addis
Sir Rod Aldridge
@donatello__ www.donatello.co.uk
www.aldridgefoundation.com
Owner, Donatello
Donatello, the leading Italian family restaurant, opened in The Lanes in 1991. Since then, it has grown from a 100-seater restaurant to one that can accommodate up to 400 people. Sue Addis, the managing director and matriarch, is active in the community and has supported local arts and charities for many years. Donatello is a former shirt sponsor of Brighton and Hove Albion.
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Chair, Aldridge Foundation
Sir Rod Aldridge founded Capita, the leading outsourcing company, in 1984. In 2004 – two years before his retirement from Capita – he established the Aldridge Foundation, which sponsors the Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) and Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). He was knighted in 2012. He is a patron of the Prince’s Trust and a founding member of the Prince of Wales’s Charities Council.
Ruth and Amy Anslow Founders, hiSbe
@RuthAnslow | @theanslow www.hisbe.co.uk The hiSbe store in Brighton was opened in December 2013 by sisters Ruth and Amy Anslow. It is a social enterprise that “exists to do the right thing, as well as make money”. The first store is intended to be the pilot for an independent supermarket chain that puts people first and is founded on responsible trading practices and ethical sourcing policies.
Janita Bagshawe
John Baldock
Zoe Ball
Television and radio presenter
Paul Barber
Chief executive, Brighton and Hove Albion FC
Howard Barden
@JanitaBagshawe brightonmuseums.org.uk
@TheatreRoyalBTN www.atgtickets.com
@ZoeTheBall youtube.com/offairchannel
@OfficialBHFC vwww.seagulls.co.uk
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
Janita Bagshawe, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the museum sector, plays a central role in championing the Royal Pavilion Estate. Ms Bagshawe started out working as a volunteer for the National Trust and Norfolk Museum Services. She sits on the Brighton and Hove Arts Commission, driving the city’s creative identity and preserving its cultural heritage.
Appointed general manager of the Theatre Royal Brighton in 2010, John Baldock – a trained puppeteer – has worked in the cultural sector for more than 25 years, holding positions at the BBC, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert’s Theatre Museum. Mr Baldock has shown a commitment to all things artistic and expressive throughout his career.
Zoe Ball was the first female host of BBC Radio One’s Breakfast Show and the presenter of Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Locally she fronted a campaign to relieve pressure on the accident and emergency department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Her father is Johnny Ball, a broadcaster who popularised mathematics, and her husband is Norman Cook, the DJ and producer.
Appointed as chief executive of Brighton and Hove Albion in May 2012, Paul Barber replaced Martin Perry. Mr Barber previously worked for the Football Association, Tottenham Hotspur and the Vancouver Whitecaps. An experienced football administrator, he was named CEO of the Year at the Football Business Awards in 2013. Before his career in football administration, he was a senior executive and director in several big British companies.
Director of Royal Pavilion, head of Museums and Arts
General manager, Theatre Royal Brighton
Head of tourism and venues, Brighton and Hove City Council
Howard Barden has almost 30 years’ experience in tourism and venues. He joined the Brighton Centre in 1994 and rose to general manager there in 2011. He has been instrumental in bringing many high-profile events to the city. In 2013 he started in his current role with responsibility for the city’s tourism strategy, winning new conference business and the Visit Brighton marketing unit.
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Shani Barnes
Gresham Blake
Resident judge at Lewes and honorary recorder of Brighton and Hove
Shani Barnes was called to the bar in 1986 and worked as a criminal barrister before becoming a recorder in 1998. She became a full-time judge in 2004 and took over as the resident judge, presiding at Lewes, Hove, and Brighton, two years ago. Her role as honorary recorder – improving links between the judiciary and the community in the city where she lives – is unpaid.
Lord Bassam of Brighton
Labour peer and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords @SteveTheQuip www.labour.org.uk Steve Bassam was leader of Brighton Council from 1986 to 1999 by which time it had merged to become Brighton and Hove Council. He was made a life peer in 1997 and has been on the Labour front bench in the House of Lords ever since. He came to Brighton to study at Sussex University and first rose to prominence locally campaigning for squatters’ rights.
Tony Bloom
Paul Bonett
@OfficialBHFC www.seagulls.co.uk
@bonettpa www.bonetts.co.uk
Tony Bloom came to prominence as a successful gambler and property investor. Nicknamed the Lizard, he won his first major poker victory in 2004 when he took the £180,000 first prize in the Australasian Poker Championship. He became chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion in 2009, succeeding Dick Knight, after securing a 75 per cent shareholding and investing £93 million in the development of the American Express Community Stadium.
Whether raising money for charity, trying to improve standards in his profession or teaching the martial art of aikido, Paul Bonett could never be called complacent. The Kemp Town letting and estate agent gave evidence to a council inquiry aimed at improving conditions for private sector tenants. Mr Bonett also spent several months in Libya helping to restore civic life after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
Chairman, Brighton and Hove Albion FC
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Michael Blencowe
Bespoke designer-tailor
Director, Baron Homes Corporation
@greshamblake www.greshamblake.com
@BaronEstates www.baron-estates.com
Gresham Blake and his wife, Fal, started the Gresham Blake brand in Brighton 16 years ago. Since then Mr Blake has been responsible for eye-catching creations for high-profile clients such as Ray Winstone, Steve Coogan, Jimmy Page, Plan B and Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim). After an arts foundation course at City College he considered becoming a sculptor before studying fashion at Brighton University.
The Baron Homes Corporation was established in 1994 although members of the Blencowe family had been dealing in property for some time before. Baron Homes encompasses development as well as residential letting. The company has a mix of more than 150 residential units as well as owning office, shop and restaurant premises. It aims to expand its residential base to satisfy the growing demand for rental.
Owner, Bonett’s Estate Agents
Katy Bourne
Sussex police and crime commissioner @KatyBourne www.sussex-pcc.gov.uk Conservative politician Katy Bourne is the inaugural Sussex police and crime commissioner. She won a second term in May. A former national chair of the Conservative Women’s Organisation, she joined the board of the College of Policing in 2013. She has been a school governor and member of Mid Sussex District Council. Her commercial experience included owning Rebel Roc, a dance studio business, which she sold in 2005.
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Richard Bradley
Caraline Brown
Mark Buchanan-Smith
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
@KariBrown www.midnight.co.uk
www.churchillsquare.com
Moving from the North East, Richard Bradley joined the council two years ago as head of service for Cityclean and City Parks. He arrived as the council’s long-running strikepunctuated dispute with its refuse and recycling staff approached its conclusion. Mr Bradley is currently combining his day job with being one of two acting executive directors for the economy, environment and culture.
Caraline Brown set up Midnight Communications in 1995 with a £2,000 overdraft. The company – which organises the Brighton and Hove Business Awards (BAHBAs) – was the first public relations consultancy to specialise in new media. Midnight has been twice named “fastest-growing PR agency” by PR Week. Ms Brown, who has stood unsuccessfully as a Labour council candidate, sold Midnight in 2001 – only to buy it back again two years later.
Julie Burchill
Julian Caddy
Richard Cairns
Warren Carter
Andy Cheeseman
@JulianCaddy www.brightonfringe.org
@Brightoncollege www.brightoncollege.org.uk
@brightonrebel www.thebevy.co.uk
@Andrewcheesman2 www.205205.com
Unwelcome headlines followed when Julian Caddy shared his thoughts on the Palace Pier and seafront. But the storm passed as he steered the Fringe to another record-breaking year. Mr Caddy started work as a director, promoter and producer in 1996, taking the helm at the Fringe in 2011. A trained actor, he was a body double for James Bond star Daniel Craig during the filming of Casino Royale.
An Oxford graduate, Richard Cairns, who was brought up in Africa, was approached by MI6 before he decided on a teaching career. He has been headmaster of Brighton College since 2006 and was named England’s Public School Headmaster of the Year 2012 by Tatler magazine. With a first-class history degree from Lady Margaret Hall, Mr Cairns is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of several other schools.
Warren Carter – a self-employed gardener who moved to Brighton from his home town of Slough in the mid-1990s – established and co-ordinates the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project. He has also been a leading player in the opening of The Bevy in Moulsecoomb. The community pub opened in December 2014 after a four-year campaign that raised £250,000 and sold 700 shares to local people.
Andy Cheesman is a popular business figure with diverse interests and a track record of charitable fundraising. He is wellknown as the managing director of Southern Taxis, trading as City Cabs (01273 205205), and Ben Shaw’s Brighton. He co-owns the Brighton Visitor magazine. He can also be seen in Buddies – the south coast’s only 24-hour restaurant and “a safe haven for vulnerable people at night” – which he also owns.
Acting executive director of economy, environment and culture, Brighton and Hove City Council
Author, journalist
Famously, Julie Burchill began her writing career at the New Musical Express (NME) at the age of 17 before moving on to newspapers such as The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Even more famously, she has cultivated an outspoken and provocative style. Her best-selling books include Ambition and Sugar Rush, which was adapted into a television series. She co-wrote Made in Brighton.
Founder, Midnight Communications
Managing director, Brighton Fringe
Director, Churchill Square Shopping Centre
In May last year Mark BuchananSmith, who studied engineering at Northbrook College, returned as director having previously been the assistant centre director. Mr Buchanan-Smith rejoined at a crucial time from Hammerson where he was retail delivery and technical services manager. His experience in retail management and strong background in operations and project management may be tested if the expansion of Churchill Square goes ahead.
Headmaster, Brighton College
Moulsecoomb Forest Garden, The Bevy
Business owner, City Cabs, Brighton Visitor, Ben Shaw’s Brighton, Buddies
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John Child
Rachel Clark
Tim Cobb
Managing director and owner, Cobb PR
Chief executive, Brighton Dome and Festival
Andrew Comben
Norman Cook
www.brightonandhoveccg.nhs.uk
@WestPierTrust www.westpier.co.uk
@timcobbpr www.cobb.agency
@andrewcomben www.brightonfestival.org
@FatboySlim www.fatboyslim.net
Having worked in homeless hostels in Brighton, John Child completed a masters degree in social work at Sussex University. He spent 13 years working in various roles in mental health services for Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He was the service director for adult mental health services in Brighton and Hove before he joined the CCG in February.
Long-serving Rachel Clark has been the driving force behind the campaign to restore the West Pier, then to build the Brighton i360. Years of hard work and stamina looked like paying off, with funding lined up, when the derelict pier was set alight by an arsonist. She showed enterprise, patience and sheer determination to start again from scratch. The Brighton i360 is a monument to her efforts.
A former news editor of the Press Association, Tim Cobb set up Cobb PR in 1995. It has become a high-profile, multi-award-winning PR agency, working predominantly with Sussex companies. The firm has offices in Eastbourne and New England House, Brighton. Cobb PR runs a number of successful networking groups for business owners, partners or directors while Cobb Digital, the online side of the practice, has enjoyed rapid growth.
Described by the Financial Times as “talented but unassuming”, Andrew Comben has been at the helm of Brighton Dome and Festival since 2008, each year bringing in a guest director for the Festival. Born and educated in Australia, his background is in classical music. He initially came to Britain as a chorister. His previous posts include director of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at the Aldeburgh festival.
Widely known by his stage name, Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook is a world-famous DJ and record producer. His music helped define the sound of the 1990s and many of his singles achieved transatlantic success. Among the live-show venues Mr Cook has filled are the American Express Community Stadium and Brighton beach. He recently played at Glastonbury – again – with a notable tribute to pop star Prince.
Chief operating officer, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group
Chief executive, West Pier Trust
DJ, musician, record producer
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Leo and David Day
Tom Druitt
Denise D’Souza
John Duffy
Bob and Eric Dugard
www.goldenliongroup.co.uk
@tomdruitt www.thebiglemon.com
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
www.sussex.ac.uk
@dugardcom www.dugard.com
With a substantial role in transforming the physical infrastructure of Sussex University, including the building of thousands of new student flats, John Duffy holds a key post at the top table at a crucial time. Mr Duffy, who gained an MBA in 1991, has held management posts in a number of higher education institutions as well as the Institute of Cancer Research, joining Sussex in 2009. He is a member of the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership.
Dugard have been providing machine tools since 1939, when C Dugard was established by the late Charles Dugard. The Dugard brand – still under the control of brothers Bob (pictured) and Eric Dugard – is represented worldwide at the company’s offices and showrooms in Poland, Russia and the United Arab Emirates – as well as through an extensive dealer network all over Europe. The Dugard family is also known as the driving force of Eastbourne speedway, since its inception.
Imelda Glackin
Andrew Goodall
Owners, Golden Lion Group
Founder, The Big Lemon
Executive director of adult services, Brighton and Hove City Council
David Day founded the Golden Lion Group pub group in the 1980s, beginning with The Long Man of Wilmington in Patcham. Now run by Mr Day’s son, Leo (pictured), the chain has grown steadily and now comprises eight pubs and bars, including the Cricketers, the Colonnade Bar, Crafty Chooks, the Ladies Mile and Hove Place, a venue that features heavily with foodies across Brighton and Hove.
Elected a year ago as a councillor, Tom Druitt is known for starting The Big Lemon bus company. His firm recycles food oil and is one of the most recognisable sustainable businesses in the area. Councillor Druitt, an ex-Army reserve officer, formerly chaired the Brighton and Hove Green Party and, with his wife and fellow councillor Alex Phillips, represents Regency ward on the city council.
From career beginnings as a frontline carer, Denise D’Souza has become a widely respected corporate leader. She manages the council directorate with the biggest budget – about £100 million a year – and has shown an adroit political touch in challenging times. She has handled difficult spending decisions, as well as legal and structural changes, with sensitivity and without losing sight of the needs of the vulnerable.
Fox Fisher
Registrar and secretary, Sussex University
Gender documenter and co-creator of Trans Pride
Gavin George
Owner and chief executive, Laine Pub Company
Pinaki Ghoshal
Executive director of children’s services, Brighton and Hove City Council
Chief executive, Martlets
@theFoxFisher transpridebrighton.tumblr.com
www.drinkinbrighton.co.uk
@pinakighoshal www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
@martletshospice www.themartlets.org.uk
In 2013 Pinaki Ghoshal joined the council from Warrington where he was assistant director. Although born in London, he had worked in the northwest of England for 23 years. He taught English as an additional language before moving into management. Among his challenges in Brighton and Hove are overseeing the secondary school catchments review and dealing with a serious case review after teenage boys from Brighton died fighting in Syria.
After training as a nurse in Dublin in the 1980s, Imelda Glackin (pictured left) worked in haematology and oncology for NHS hospitals in London before moving to Sussex. She joined Martlets 13 years ago from St Barnabas Hospice in Worthing. Her roles included co-ordinator of the Hospice at Home service and service development director before her rise to deputy chief executive. She became chief executive two years ago.
Artist, trans activist, and gender documenter, Fox Fisher cofounded Trans Pride. He is a campaigner for transgender rights and is leading a movement towards the freedom to express your gender without prejudice. Mr Fisher is active in changing how media outlets portray trans people by meeting with national newspapers and broadcasters. He and his film-making partner, Lewis, were presenters of Transgender UK (Channel Four), a 45-minute show featuring 11 of their short films.
Having bought up a sizeable share of the pub sector in Brighton and Hove and sold a stake in his business to entrepreneur Luke Johnson’s Risk Capital Partners (see page 14), Gavin George is looking to London for fresh opportunities. The name of Mr George’s business – formed from the merger of Zelgrain and C-Side – has been changed to the Laine Pub Company from InnBrighton and it now includes a brewery.
Owners, C Dugard
Director, Brunswick Developments
Andrew Goodall came to Brighton in 1981 to study for a degree in finance and accountancy. After graduating, he joined KPMG and became a chartered accountant. His first audit was the original Brighton Marina Company. In 1996, he bought the marina through Brunswick Developments, the company he founded in the 1980s. Mr Goodall is also chair of the Fonthill Foundation, an educational trust helping disadvantaged children.
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Gail Gray
Eleanor Harris
Martin Harris
@gailgeewhizz www.riseuk.org.uk
@Eleanor_Harris britishairwaysi360.com
@citybusnews buses.co.uk
A former probation assistant with Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust, Gail Gray has been chief executive of RISE (Refuge, Information, Support and Education) since 2005. The award-winning Brighton-based charity has been providing sanctuary and support to survivors of domestic abuse in Sussex since 1994 when it started out as the Women’s Refuge Project. Every year, it supports more than 1,800 women and their families.
The chief executive of the i360 – now branded the British Airways i360 – has more than 20 years’ experience in the leisure and tourism sector. Eleanor Harris was the London Eye’s commercial director for six years, responsible for generating the company’s multimillion-pound revenue and strategic business development. Previously, she held various marketing and customer-focused management roles at British Airways.
Martin Harris returned to Brighton and Hove in April 2013, having started his career here as a senior management trainee at Southdown buses in 1980. Later he was part of the management team that formed Brighton and Hove Buses. He was one of the members of the Fairness Commission which recently reported its findings and published its recommendations. He is on the board of the Chamber of Commerce and chairs Hove Business Association.
Chief executive, RISE
Chief executive, British Airways i360
Managing director, Brighton and Hove Buses
Chris Hughton
Nick Hibberd
Acting executive director of economy, environment and culture, Brighton and Hove City Council @nickhibberd1 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk A key player in the regeneration of derelict sites such as Circus Street and Preston Barracks, Nick Hibberd is also working across the Greater Brighton area to upgrade infrastructure, housing and education. He is involved in efforts to transform the council’s planning service and the rundown Madeira terraces. Mr Hibberd started in the housing office in Whitehawk when he first came to Brighton 20 years ago. He has been tipped as a future chief executive.
Ryan Heal
Chief executive, Rockinghorse Children’s Charity
@Rockinghorse67 www.rockinghorse.org.uk With his local roots, Ryan Heal brought a wealth of understanding and some valuable corporate contacts to Rockinghorse from his previous job at Juice 107.2. As a parent taking his son to the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, he had strong personal reasons for wanting to lead one of Brighton’s best-loved charities. Mr Heal was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and educated at Brighton College.
Manager, Brighton and Hove Albion
Vice chancellor, Brighton University
Debra Humphris
Tim Hutchings
@OfficialBHAFC www.seagulls.co.uk
@debrahumphris www.brighton.ac.uk
@TimHutchings1 www.brightonmarathon.co.uk
Brighton and Hove Albion appointed Chris Hughton, the former Tottenham Hotspur and Republic of Ireland defender, as first-team manager on a three-and-a-half-year contract in December 2014. Albion chairman Tony Bloom said: “Chris has an excellent record in coaching and management.” Mr Hughton, 57, is a former Newcastle United, Birmingham City and Norwich City manager. He beat relegation in his first season and almost won promotion in May.
Originally qualifying as a registered nurse, Debra Humphris worked in the NHS for 20 years. From 2000 to 2012 she progressed through a number of director roles at Southampton University to become pro-vicechancellor (education). After three years at Imperial College in London, Professor Humphris joined Brighton University last December. Her predecessor Julian Crampton described her as “an outstanding academic and an inspiring and dynamic leader”.
The inaugural Brighton Marathon was organised by Tim Hutchings, a former international athlete and television athletics commentator, with Tom Naylor, a former Brighton club athlete. The first running of the race took place in April 2010, with 12,000 entries – of whom 7,589 participated on race day. Mr Hutchings, chief executive of Grounded Events, is a former middle and longdistance runner who represented England and Great Britain.
Founder, Brighton Marathon
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Peter James
Luke Johnson
Glynn Jones
Phil Jones
Nick Juba
@peterjamesuk www.peterjames.com
@LukeJohnsonRCP www.riskcapitalpartners.co.uk
www.westpier.co.uk
@philjoneswired www.wiredsussex.com
www.ccb.ac.uk
Crime writer and film producer Peter James has written more than 30 novels published in 36 languages including the international bestselling crime thrillers featuring Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, which have sold more than 15 million copies. His latest – Love You Dead – was published last month. Mr James is an ambassador for Brighton University and a patron of many local charities, including Brighton and Hove Samaritans and the Whitehawk Inn.
Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson found fame as one of the investors who made a fortune from Pizza Express. He has a love of Brighton and has put his money where his mouth is, most recently by buying the Palace Pier. He also bought into Small Batch Coffee last year and the Laine Pub Company, formerly InnBrighton, in 2014. Neilson Active Holidays is another Brighton business in his portfolio.
Crime writer, film producer
Risk Capital Partners
Chairman, West Pier Trust
Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp
@ChSuptNevKemp www.sussex.police.uk In April 2013, Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp took up his post as the city’s divisional commander. Passionate about politics and current affairs, Chief Superintendent Kemp joined the police as a constable in 1995, being promoted to sergeant in 2000 and inspector in 2003. After five years as chief inspector, he was promoted in 2012 to superintendent and was head of the Protecting Vulnerable People Branch.
Chief executive, City College Brighton and Hove
Elder statesmen Glynn Jones has held key positions locally for more than 25 years. As Brighton Council’s chief executive, he oversaw the merger with Hove. He chaired the NHS trust that runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He has served on the Brighton Festival Board, Sussex University’s council and as a deputy lord lieutenant. He chairs the West Pier Trust and the Friends of Brighton and Hove Hospitals.
Since 2007, Phil Jones has run Wired Sussex, a Brighton-based membership organisation for companies and freelancers operating in the digital, media and technology sectors in Sussex. A key influence both locally and nationally, Mr Jones – a Sussex University graduate, with a background in the television industry – is also a board member of the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership.
Brighton University graduate Nick Juba joined City College last September from the University of the Arts London, Europe’s largest arts school. He has previously worked at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, an agency of the Department for Education, as a senior adviser and for the European Commission as a consultant and rapporteur. Mr Juba has also served as the chair of governors at Northbrook College, in Worthing.
Paul Kemp
Simon Kirby
Sascha Koehler
@PaulKemp1 www.brighton-pride.org.uk
www.simonkirby.org
@SaschaKoehler www.hilton.com/brightonmet
The Hastings-born MP, formerly known as Simon Radford-Kirby, was an entrepreneur – co-founder of the C-Side pub chain – before he became a politician. The father of six has been an MP since 2010. He held his seat last year, with a reduced majority of 690 votes. He served as a parliamentary private secretary to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt before being promoted to government whip. He is honorary vice president of Whitehawk FC.
Having worked for the Hilton Worldwide company for more than 15 years, Sascha Koehler started work at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in February last year. Previously, he managed Hilton London Syon Park and Hilton Gatwick Airport. Mr Koehler has worked in countries such as Switzerland, Turkey and Hungary. He has overseen a £3.75 million renovation of 185 rooms at the Hilton Brighton Metropole hotel.
Managing director, Brighton and Hove Pride
Sussex Police divisional commander for Brighton and Hove
Managing director, Wired Sussex
Paul Kemp has been a supporter of Brighton and Hove Pride since its inception. For almost 18 years, he has been one of Pride’s biggest business investors and fundraisers and established the now famous 8,000-capacity dance big top back on The Level in 1993. He also created the club brand Wild Fruit and has featured in Gay Times as one of the most influential and inspirational gay people in the country.
Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown
General manager, Hilton Brighton Metropole
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Executive director of finance and resourcing, Brighton and Hove City Council
Entrepreneur, Small Batch Coffee Company
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
@nigellambe www.linkedin.com/in/nigellambe
The council’s new finance chief joined from the Department for Communities and Local Government where he was deputy finance director. So David Kuenssberg should have a good grasp of the challenges ahead. He came with more than 20 years’ experience in financial management and worked previously at English Heritage. Mr Kuenssberg started his career with accountancy firm PwC. He is the older brother of BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
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Labour MP for Hove @peterkyle www.peterkyle.co.uk Peter Kyle has thrown himself into being an MP and, in his words, trying to learn how to be a good MP, since taking Hove from the Conservatives against the national swing last year. He said that the results locally and nationally had lessons for his party and he has been among the voices in the Labour movement calling for those lessons to be learnt.
Business guru Nigel Lambe showed the scale of his ambition last autumn, teaming up with Luke Johnson when Mr Johnson took a stake in Small Batch Coffee. Mr Lambe is chief executive of the coffee shop chain, which also has a wholesale side. The investor and entrepreneur, who lives in Hove, has also founded or helped run the brewery WJ King, the Urchin pub and the Velo Café.
www.mylifebh.org.uk My Life is an easy-to-use, online directory listing local Brighton & Hove and national organisations and services to support everyday living Your first point of contact for finding the help and support you need to live well
health conditions
social care
health services
healthy living, social & leisure
families, children & young people
carers
support groups & charities
housing
financial advice & benefits
volunteering, training & work
transport
crisis support
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James Ledward
Carol Lewis
President, Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce
Green MP for Brighton Pavilion
Caroline Lucas
Phélim MacCafferty
Anne Martin
@gscene1 www.gscene.com
@bainbridgelewis www.businessinbrighton.org.uk
@CarolineLucas www.carolinelucas.com
@Phelimmac www.brightonhovegreens.org
@BrightonPier www.brightonpier.co.uk
As editor of Gscene Magazine, James Ledward – a former Liberal Democrat council candidate – has been a leading figure in the moves towards greater LGBT equality. Gscene is the city’s LGBT lifestyle, listings and community magazine. Printed copies of the magazine are distributed in Brighton and Hove, London and along the south coast. Mr Ledward’s scrutiny of the Pride organisation contributed to its present more sustainable financial position.
After training with Deloitte and qualifying as a chartered accountant, maths graduate Carol Lewis moved to a local practice before setting up with her business partner Gail Bainbridge. Her love of helping small businesses prompted her to volunteer with the Chamber of Commerce. After a stint as one of the vice presidents, last year she was elected president. She has also mentored budding entrepreneurs through the New Enterprise Allowance scheme.
The suggestion that Caroline Lucas might be a one-term wonder in the House of Commons was dispelled when she was returned with an increased majority of 7,967 at the general election last year. While it can be harder to achieve much outside the main parties, her voice is heard often inside Parliament and she has proved adroit at using the media to magnify her message.
The Green convenor may have a less divided party than his predecessor, Jason Kitcat, but he also faces the frustrations of being in opposition rather than in office. Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty has represented Brunswick and Adelaide since 2011. His diligent and even-handed chairing of the planning committee earned him respect. He will use that experience to try to shape the strategic planning agenda.
As general manager of Brighton Pier – or the Palace Pier as many locals still call it – Anne Martin manages the largest free-entry tourist attraction in the country. She has held the position since January 2004, before which she was operations director for Bourne Leisure, managing a group of holiday parks and responsible for all park entertainments programmes and for all retail shops on 57 parks.
Editor, Gscene
Convenor of the Green Group, Brighton and Hove City Council
General manager, Brighton Pier
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Sally McMahon
Andrew Mosley
Nick Mosley
@BHLibraries www.citylibraries.info
@gmandrewmosley www.grandbrighton.co.uk
@BrightonNick www.brightonfoodfestival.com
In charge of a citywide network of 14 libraries sits Sally McMahon. Despite harsh financial circumstances, Brighton and Hove is fortunate that none of its libraries – each at the heart of its local community – has closed. A proposal to move Hove Library from its present location to share the Hove Museum site provoked controversy. The Jubilee Library, in Brighton, remains one of the bestused libraries nationwide.
With a hotel management career spanning more than 20 years, Andrew Mosley, 50, became general manager of The Grand Brighton in May 2010. Previous jobs included director of operations at The Belfry. He has a degree in hotel and catering management. Mr Mosley has overseen a full refurbishment of The Grand, including the new GB1 restaurant and The Spa at The Grand, as well as all the hotel bedrooms and meeting rooms.
Seemingly tireless in his efforts to promote local food and drink, Nick Mosley has taken on a number of key roles. He has been a vocal vice-chair of the Brighton and Hove Tourism Alliance and helped organise the International Cool Climate Wine Symposium in Brighton last month. He coproduced the International Chef Exchange series on Latest TV and helps run the Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Awards.
Head of libraries, Brighton and Hove City Council
General manager, Grand Hotel Brighton
Warren Morgan
Leader, Brighton and Hove City Council
@warrenmorgan warrenmorgan.wordpress.com Having led Labour back into office, albeit without a majority, Councillor Warren Morgan is keen to demonstrate that his party is able to make a difference despite financial constraints. Even as existing challenges prove stubborn – such as the Valley Gardens scheme – new problems arise, such as the Madeira terraces. Councillor Morgan has grasped the nettle of working alongside political rivals in the Greater Brighton region and in government.
Founder and managing director, Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Festival
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Aroe MSK
Xavier Nalletamby
Doris Ndebele
@AroeMSK www.vivalavandal.com
@drxavierN brightonandhoveccg.nhs.uk
www.bmecp.org.uk
A graffiti artist known across Europe and beyond for his bold and inventive style, Aroe MSK – not his real name – has decorated houses in Viaduct Road, brought colour to the facades of pubs, painted the hoardings next to the Brighton i360 construction site and put Kensington Street on the world graffiti map. The 44-yearold father-of-five is a key shaper of our city’s cultural identity.
Elected five years ago, Xavier Nalletamby has chaired the clinical commissioning group (CCG) during one of the periodic reforms of the NHS. He stepped up during an earlier bout of changes when some surgeries became GP fundholders. Dr Nalletamby was the senior partner at St Peter’s Medical Centre where he has practised for 30 years. He was a GP trainer for 15 years and specialises in children’s medicine.
Since 2000, Doris Ndebele has led the Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP), a charity that works with – and supports – black and minority ethnic communities across Brighton and Hove. BMECP, an umbrella organisation, works with diverse community groups and organisations as well as individuals and their families, including refugee and asylum-seeker communities. It is governed by a board of 18 trustees.
Dean Orgill
Gary Peters
Sally Polanski
@DeanOrgill www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk
@garypetersICP www.lovelocaljobs.com
@SallyPolanski bhcommunityworks.org.uk
Dean Orgill, who is a partner within the litigation department, has been with Mayo Wynne Baxter for more than 20 years. He qualified as a solicitor in 1987, having studied law at Cardiff. Mr Orgill chairs the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership, which gives a voice to the business community, and is a co-opted member of the Greater Brighton Economic Board.
Gary Peters is widely regarded as an energetic entrepreneur who translates ideas into actions without fuss. He uses his energy and experience of the recruitment industry to help strengthen communities and economies at a grassroots level, increasing employment opportunities, enhancing education and raising aspirations for local residents and businesses alike. He formerly chaired the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership and is a trustee of Albion in the Community.
An important and intelligent voice in the city, Sally Polanski is responsible for managing, leading and developing Community Works, founded in 2013 to bring together a number of community and voluntary groups. Her job is to make sure that the organisation is capable of effectively meeting the support needs of various groups. Ms Polanski is an articulate representative of the sector, who works closely with local leaders within the city.
Graffiti artist
Chairman, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group
Bill Murray
Managing director, Murray Media @murraymediahove www.murray-media.co.uk Former City College student Bill Murray started his marketing, communications and public relations agency in 1999. His local clients have included the Brighton Wheel, Hyde Housing and the winning King Alfred redevelopment consortium of the Starr Trust (see page 21) and Crest Nicholson. He shares his passion for cinema by reviewing films for BBC Sussex listeners – and his Big Screen on the beach in Brighton has quickly become something of an annual fixture.
Chairman, Mayo Wynne Baxter
Founder and chief executive, LoveLocalJobs.com
Giles Palmer
Founder and chief executive, Brandwatch @joodoo9 www.brandwatch.com Giles Palmer started Brandwatch, the social media monitoring company, after leaving BSkyB. Development started in late 2005. From its launch in August 2007 Brandwatch has grown to become a world leader, serving businesses across the globe from FTSE 100 companies to small and medium-size enterprises. Mr Palmer is a regular speaker at social media conferences. Two years ago Brandwatch raised more than £13 million from investors.
Chief officer, Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership
Chief executive, Community Works
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Ian Poysden
Robbie Raggio
Sohail Rahim
Founder, Dinner2go
Brona Ratcliffe
Head of contact centre HR, Domestic and General
Geoff Raw
@poysden www.iepfinancial.co.uk
@Hovecarwash
@sohailrahim www.dinner2go.co.uk
www.domesticandgeneral.com
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
For Ian Poysden, the financial services business is not fundamentally about money. It’s about people – and relationships. Based in Hove, IEP Financial has worked for 25 years doing what it does now. After significant recent expansion, the company now employs 24 people, with a total of 250 years of experience. Mr Poysden’s passion is cricket. His company is in its 17th year of sponsoring Sussex County Cricket Club.
The phrase most commonly associated with Robbie Raggio is self-made millionaire. Often he is known simply as Mr Car Wash, because of his ownership of the hand car wash outside Hove Station. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first venture at the age of 11 on the Moulsecoomb estate, employing eight other children to chop down trees in Wild Park for firewood. He received a police caution.
Techie and entrepreneur Sohail Rahim started Dinner2go in 2005 to enable people to order food from their favourite restaurant and have it delivered to their door. More than 100 restaurants have signed up as suppliers in Brighton and Hove. He has recently expanded to Worthing with 25 restaurants already on board. Mr Rahim, who previously ran Laptop Doctor, supports Rockinghorse and two other local charities, Brighton in Need and Brighton Bricks.
Brona Ratcliffe probably offers more jobs to people from Brighton and Hove than anyone else. She is responsible for HR across Domestic and General’s contact centre operations, including the Queen Square offices in Brighton where she spends two days a week with the 900 staff. She has a strong influence over the company’s HR policies, local sponsorship and community involvement activities within one of Brighton and Hove’s biggest employers.
“Teflon Geoff” joined the council six years ago and became chief executive last autumn. Schooled in a pit village in the north east, he came to Brighton via jobs in the Treasury and Housing Corporation. A town planner by background, he worked on the regeneration of Wembley – experience that should help as the Greater Brighton city region takes shape and the proposed Churchill Square extension is firmed up.
Managing director, IEP Financial
Entrepreneur
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Chief executive, Brighton and Hove City Council
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Becky Reynolds
Dee Simson
Deputy leader of the Conservative group, Brighton and Hove City Council
Chair, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
@Bricycles bricycles.org.uk
@Woodingdean_Dee kemptownconservatives.com
@SusanSjuve www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk
After almost 20 years with Bricycles, Becky Reynolds should not find it hard to see the sort of changes that she has championed around Brighton and Hove. Those changes have meant putting in some hard miles. She can take credit for being at the forefront of those making the case for more and better co-ordinated cycle lanes and the contraflow system for cyclists in the North Laine.
Born and bred in Woodingdean, Councillor Dee Simson is part of the fabric of her ward. She is one of the deputy leaders for the opposition Conservatives on the council and a regular panel member when businesses seek a drinks licence. Councillor Simson has long taken a close interest in licensing policy, balancing enterprise with neighbourly concern. She also chairs the influential Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
A transformation has taken place since Sue Sjuve took the chair of the trust board in 2012. Her warm and positive approach is underpinned by a focus on efficiency and improvement in keeping with a career that has included senior level posts in the private sector. She started her working life as a research assistant in the Paediatric Research Unit at Guy’s Hospital in London.
Campaigns officer, Bricycles
Richard Skerritt
Caroline Ridley
Chief executive, Impact Initiatives @Impactsussex impact-initiatives.org.uk
In some ways Caroline Ridley, above right, exemplifies a type – the third sector chief executives who knuckle down in challenging circumstances so that life is better for some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our community. She runs Impact Initiatives, which was started almost 40 years ago and which supports children, families, young people, adults and older people. The Whitehawk After School Project is among its schemes.
Bill Smith
Sue Sjuve
Managing director, Skerritts Consultants
Managing director, Latest TV and Latest Homes
Sarah Springford
Director, Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce
Rob Starr
Gavin Stewart
@RichardSkerritt www.skerritts.co.uk
@latestbill thelatest.co.uk
@sarahspringford businessinbrighton.org.uk
@StarrTrust starrtrust.com
www.brightonbusiness.co.uk
Skerritts, the Brighton-based firm of chartered financial planners, was founded 25 years ago. It employs more than 40 people in the city, with a turnover of about £6 million. It manages funds in excess of £600 million. For five years, the company has won the New Model Adviser award for the south east. Mr Skerritt is an ambassador for Rockinghorse, the children’s charity.
Bill Smith, a former ITV producer, can claim to be a writer, theatre and film director and composer. He has written books, plays and musicals – and has made albums. He started a listings magazine called The Punter – now Latest 7 and Latest Homes – and had the vision that led to Latest TV. He is a one-man creative industry, who also runs a website and live venue.
The Chamber of Commerce has flourished with Sarah Springford at the helm. She has quietly yet effectively grown its membership, attracted interesting speakers, held an impressive range of networking events and helped bring together key players for important debates. The Living Wage campaign showed leadership. Helping business have a stronger voice in the political sphere is a challenge that she is tackling with relish.
Rob Starr set up an insurance business as a young man and made his fortune. When his inspirational father, Edward, died, he founded the Starr Trust in his memory. Mr Starr swam the Channel for charity as a relative novice in the water. So he was undaunted by the odds of winning the contract to revamp the King Alfred. His joint bid with housebuilder Crest Nicholson won. Watch this space!
Founder, Starr Trust
Executive director, Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership
Taking over from the highly regarded Tony Mernagh, Gavin Stewart may seem to enjoy a lower profile but he’s kept himself busy. He splits the role at the Economic Partnership with his existing position as manager of the Business Improvement District. He won the overwhelming backing of BID members for a further fiveyear term which will bring about a £1.8 million investment in Brighton’s main shopping streets.
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Zoe Sugg
Geoffrey Theobald
Zac Toumazi
Mark Turner
Burt Williams
@Zozeebo www.zoella.co.uk
brightonandhoveconservatives.com
@zacstert20 www.sussexcricket.co.uk
@GMBSussexBranch www.gmb-southern.org.uk
www.black-history.org.uk
Geoffrey Theobald has lived in Brighton and Hove all his life. He was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School and then the College of Estate Management London, now part of Reading University. He is married to Carol, a fellow Patcham ward councillor. The couple have two daughters and two sons. Councilllor Theobald was mayor in 1982-83 and leader of East Sussex County Council from 1989 to 1993.
Zac Toumazi was appointed as the chief executive of Sussex County Cricket Club in January 2013, having previously been a regular visitor to Hove. Before his move into cricket, he had extensive experience in the financial services sector with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Mr Toumazi chaired the Employer Skills Task Force locally and challenged employers to create 1,000 new apprenticeships in 1,000 days, urging businesses to pledge their support.
As the public face of the GMB union locally, Mark Turner is rarely out of the news. Frequently, he has been seen and heard representing the views of the union members employed by Cityclean in a series of industrial disputes that disrupted waste and recycling services in Brighton and Hove. GMB members have also had significant influence within the Brighton and Hove District Labour Party.
Bert Williams has lived in Brighton and Hove since 1967, having moved to the city after he left the Royal Air Force. Now retired after working for the NHS for 26 years, he has undertaken voluntary work for MOSAIC, the city-based charity for black and mixed-parentage families. He is perhaps best-known for helping to run the Brighton and Hove Black History Group. He became an MBE in 2011.
YouTuber, blogger, author
Known widely as Zoella, Zoe Sugg is a YouTube video blogger – a vlogger – specialising in fashion and beauty. Her YouTube channel has more than seven million subscribers and has had 330 million views, making it one of the most viewed channels on the site. Ms Sugg’s debut novel, Girl Online, became one of the fastestselling books ever published but questions about who really wrote it sparked controversy.
Andy Winter
Leader of the Conservative group, Brighton and Hove City Council
Chief executive, Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex branch secretary, GMB
Founder, Brighton and Hove Black History Group
Chief executive, BHT (Brighton Housing Trust)
Hospital director, Montefiore Hospital
Andy Wood
Mark Woolley
Matthew Wright
Giles York
@AndyWinterBHT www.bht.org.uk
themontefiorehospital.co.uk
@markwoolley1 www.electric-hair.com
@SouthernWater www.southernwater.co.uk
@CCGilesYork www.sussex.police.uk
As owner and creative director of Electric, the leading hairdressing brand, Mark Woolley is one of London’s leading celebrity stylists, with clients who include Paloma Faith, Olivia Palermo and Luke Evans. Electric has six award-winning salons, in Brighton, London, Reading, Oxford, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Electric professional hair products are sold across Europe, the United States and Asia. Mr Woolley and his wife, Fran, have four children.
As Southern Water updates its infrastructure – including the £300 million treatment centre in Peacehaven which handles Brighton and Hove’s waste – chief executive Matthew Wright, 51, is trying to switch the company’s focus towards customers and away from ticking boxes to satisfy regulators. He has spent his career as a utility company executive and is paid handsomely. Since joining Southern Water in 2011, customers’ bills have risen more modestly.
After six years as deputy chief constable, Giles York took charge of Sussex Police in 2014. He has completed 26 years’ service as a police officer and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the New Year’s Honours List last year. The married father of three has a number of national policing responsibilities including trying to bring policing into the digital world.
Andy Winter has worked for BHT (Brighton Housing Trust) since 1985, challenging the causes and symptoms of poverty, homelessness and social injustice. He worked as a residential support worker at the trust before becoming manager of residential alcohol and drug services. He was appointed chief executive in 2003. A cricket and rugby-loving South African, Mr Winter is a regular contributor to debates about all aspects of life in our city.
As Spire prepared to open the Montefiore Hospital, in Hove, after a £35 million makeover, Andy Wood was appointed hospital director. He has run the set up ever since. He has spent more than 20 years as a healthcare executive, joining Spire in 2007 and moving to the Montefiore – in the old Legal and General offices on the corner of Davigdor Road and Montefiore Road – in 2012.
Owner and creative director, Electric
Chief executive, Southern Water
Chief Constable of Sussex
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Sunday Walks
The Big Lemon runs walks in the Sussex countryside between April and September. We generally take the bus out into the countryside, walk at a leisurely pace for 2-3 hours taking in the scenery, then stop for lunch at a nice old country pub. Most walks are between 4-6 miles long and are aimed to provide good exercise in beautiful country surroundings without being too strenuous, though some walks are quite hilly. They are suitable for all ages from about 5 onwards, though younger ones are also welcome if you don’t mind carrying them part of the way! All buses leave Old Steine (South) Stop S, Brighton at 10.30am and return about 4.30pm.
NO W NO F IN EE Sunday 3rd July: Adur Valley walk Sunday 7th August: Plumpton & Blackcap walk Sunday 4th September: Ouse Valley walk Sunday 2nd October: To be decided by public vote – watch this space!