Ambache Directors

OUR BOARD of DIRECTORS

The Ambache is fortunate to have a Board of Directors who are
an incredible source of expertise, advice, ideas, and sheer creative energy.

This page also includes our General Manager, Sue Sharpe.
Sheila Forbes CBE

Sheila Forbes has spent most of her career managing organisational change as a human resources professional in the private sector, where she was Personnel Director of Storehouse plc, and then of Reed Elsevier, UK. She is currently a non executive director of several organisations, and works as an independent consultant on HR and organisational issues, mainly in the arts, voluntary sector and higher education. In 2002 she was awarded the CBE for services to women in the workforce.

Isabelle Gillard

Barbara Hosking CBE

Barbara Hosking is a former Deputy Chairman of Westcountry Television. Her Whitehall career included service as a Press Officer at 10 Downing Street, first with Harold Wilson and then, for three years, with Edward Heath. Later she was Private Secretary in the Cabinet Office to the Minister responsible for information co-ordination.

She left the Civil Service to become Controller of Information Services for the Independent Broadcasting Authority. She has served on juries of the Sony National Radio Awards. In 1985 she was awarded an OBE, and a CBE in 1999.

Lewis McNaught

Lewis McNaught was formerly Managing Director of Gartmore, a leading fund management company. He spent 17 years in the City and was Chairman of the Association of Unit Trusts & Investment Funds between 1997 and 1999.

Lewis now spearheads ActivPursuits (click to visit), an online magazine of outdoor adventure and exploration.

Paul Meyer

Paul Meyer is the Chief Executive of two medical charities concerned with supporting The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and University College London Hospitals.

For many years he has been Chairman of the Roxwell Music Festival. He sits on the Advisory Committe of the Unicorn Theatre for Children.

Marilynne Morgan CB

Marilynne Morgan is the Solicitor to the Department for Work and Persions and the Department of Health, and Head of the DWP's Law and Special Policy Group since 1997. She currently chairs the Government Legal Services's sub-group on Recruitment of both qualified lawyers and legal trainees.

Throughout her career she has taken an interest in European law, but like most government lawyers, specialises in Public Law. She has contributed articles to learned journals and has been a contributor to Halsbury's Laws.

Charles Pridgeon

Chris Rendel

Chris has been a Director of the Ambache orchestra for four years. His day job is in Marketing.

After twenty years in advertising working with such clients as the Ford Motor Company, the Financial Times, the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office, he started his own Marketing and Creative Consultancy the Windmill Partnership (click to visit) which is now four years old.

He attempts to use his experience on behalf of the Ambache orchestra, which he greatly enjoys.

David Ryland

David Ryland was for many years a Creative and Board Director of Ogilvy & Mather, London, one of Britain's largest advertising agencies. He has written advertising campaigns for clients as divers as Ford and the Woolwich, Kotex and the Sunday Times.

He has acted as communications consultant for the Red Cross in London and Geneva. His daughter has two MAs, his wife will soon have one. He has retained his Bachelor status.

Sue Sharpe

The General Manager, Sue Sharpe, has worked as an Arts administrator for the last thirteen years, working for such companies as English National Ballet, English Touring Opera and the Central School of Ballet. She worked with a film composer before joining the Ambache in Autumn 2000.