MEET OUR TEAM

Deborah has more than 20 years’ experience in national charities, from the Women’s Sports Foundation to the YMCA. She specialises in strategic development and growing charities to maximise their impact. She was previously CEO of Active Gloucestershire.

Malaki is a music producer, sound engineer and music educator with over 10 years of experience in the industry. His skills are in music technology and production, songwriting and artist development. He is also a Senior Partner at Scope Music Management.

Ben is our Marketing Manager, looking after our website and social media and spreading the word about everything we do at the Music Works.

Dave has previously worked in senior finance roles for National Grid and RWE collectively over 35 years. His main role is to ensure the financial processes and procedures are in place so that the organisational and financial capacity can support the ambitious vision that The Music Works wishes to deliver. 

Lee is a qualified teacher and music technology workshop leader with extensive experience in the music industry. He has a proven track record of working with and engaging teenagers from challenging backgrounds, and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Salo is another of our main music leaders: he leads our whole class iPad music tech programmes and also works in a number of APS settings. He’s an ex-youth worker, and a jazz guitarist, keyboardist, bass guitarist and drummer and also musical director of the Groove Majors band.

Issachar is an experienced DJ, music producer, and sound engineer. Having graduated from London Metropolitan University with an Honours Degree in Business, Music & Media Management, he has a background as an ex-support worker, working with teenagers from challenging backgrounds. 

Robin is a skilled musician and engineer, and runs our Forest of Dean studio, SoundSpace, in Cinderford. He is also one of our team of music leaders, and was once one of our participants, taking part in an after-school club at primary school.

Victoria is one of our Senior Music Leaders, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Hamish is one of our Senior Music Leaders, keyboard player and Music Tech specialist

Alexander is the music partner at leading media and technology law firm Wiggin LLP. He advises on a range of commercial and IP matters with a focus on music rights. In addition to lecturing as an authority on new media issues, he is a regular panellist and moderator at conferences.

Shivan Mistry works as head Studio Engineer at Studio 340 in Cheltenham, working with a broad spectrum of clientele from professionals to educational and special needs.  Shivan is also an aspiring producer set to release music this year collaborating with local musicians.

Jonathan Knight worked in investment banking for 20 years in London, New York and Tokyo. Since moving to Gloucestershire he has been focused on starting and growing technology based companies in the music, market research and green technology fields.

Stuart Cairns is co-director of his own training delivery and design consultancy. He has more than 35 years experience in the defence sector which included strategic and operational planning, crisis management, business continuity, risk and transformation management, as well as HR.