Bruce Archangel
Bruce Archangel is a Grammy Award winning writer/ producer and award-winning festival organiser. He is at the cutting edge of music development and new audiences. The challenge of creating a sustainable message-through-music structure that supported the medical world in its efforts to communicate reliable information to new audiences was one with which he engaged without hesitation. The technology with which to communicate the message globally is a key part of what Bruce is interested in and brings to The Rude Foundation.
Patrick Spence
Patrick is the founding trustee of RudeAid, having created the original concept.
He has considerable experience in club promotion with the biggest brand names in both Ibiza & Miami .
Patrick has spent many years working in the charity sector particularly in the sports therapy arena
Professor Brian Gazzard
Professor Brian Gazzard is the technical advisor on HIV/AIDS and a trustee for The Rude Foundation.
Prof. Gazzard started the HIV unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and is now its Clinical Research Director. This is one of the largest clinical units in Europe concentrating its research mainly on new algorithms of care, immunological and oncological manifestations of HIV disease and antiretroviral therapy.
He qualified at Cambridge and received his MD from there in 1983. He was awarded the Department of Health prize for distinguished achievement in 2002 and is the chairman of the Expert Group Advising Chief Medical Officer of Health on matters relating to HIV disease.
Dame Carol Black
Dame Carol is the first National Director for Health and Work, is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Chair of the Nuffield Trust.
Dame Carol was elected to the Council of Royal College of Physicians in 1996 and became Clinical Vice President in 1999. In 2002 she was President of the Royal College of Physicians; a post she stepped down from in July 2006. She is Chair of the UK Health Honours Committee, a member of the Council of the GMC and a member of the Board of the British Cardiovascular Society.
In addition, she is non-executive director of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and a member of the Board of Governors of the Health Foundation.
In 2002 Dame Carol was awarded the CBE for her work on systemic sclerosis and in 2005 was awarded the DBE for her services to medicine.
Professor Jane Anderson
Professor Jane Anderson is Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV, and Honorary Consultant at the Homerton University Hospital in London. Professor Anderson has particular clinical and research interests in HIV infection in migrant populations and in women and families. Her wide-ranging work engages with the current medical, social, ethical and legal challenges posed by HIV, with the determination that has developed from extensive clinical and research work undertaken, often with voluntary sector collaboration, in diverse communities in east London. Professor Anderson sits on the BHIVA Conferences and Guidelines Subcommittees.
Mark Nelson, M.A., M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P.
Dr. Nelson holds a significant number of impressive job titles at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, the largest HIV-treatment center in northern Europe. Most notably, since 1994 he has been the hospital's Director of HIV Services, Deputy Director of Research and Director of HIV Clinical Trials Unit. As those titles would suggest, Dr. Nelson is heavily involved in clinical studies at Chelsea and Westminster; his HIV-related research has run the gamut, though his latest work tends to focus on antiretroviral therapies, treatment of HIV/hepatitis B coinfection and AIDS-related lymphoma. Dr. Nelson has authored or co-authored more than 50 published articles over the past two years.
In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Nelson teaches undergraduates and graduates at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and has lectured extensively throughout the world at conferences and as an invited speaker.
Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman is pop. Born in 1947, his rise from a working class background in Coventry, to the establishment of his world-famous production company PWL, is a true rags-to-riches success story.
He has been involved in the writing and/or production of over two hundred hit songs, including twenty two number-one records. Pete Waterman has been instrumental in the development of dozens of successful groups and solo artists, among them Rick Astley, Steps, Mel & Kim and Kylie Minogue. Amongst his many awards and accolades, Pete Waterman has been a winner of the British Phonographic Industry Award for Best British Producer and was awarded the O.B.E. in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to music as composer and producer. More recently, Pete was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Cheshire.
Whilst most people will know him from his musical successes, Pete also has a passion for the railways and is the owner of a significant collection of both historic and commercial railway locomotives and rolling stock.
Professor David Cooper
Professor of Music & Technology, Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications BA, Leeds, BA, Open, DPhil, York, FHEA, FRSA
David Cooper was brought up in Belfast where he studied at Belfast Royal Academy and the City of Belfast School of Music. He came to Leeds as an undergraduate student in 1975 and was awarded a first class degree in Music, studying composition with Alexander Goehr and Peter Paul Nash. He subsequently completed his doctorate at the University of York under the supervision of David Blake. He was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1988 and was promoted to a personal chair in Music and Technology in 2003. He was technical Director of the TLTP phase 2 Music Consortium Project (1993-6) and has sat on the AHRC and EPSRC peer-review colleges. His current role gives him responsibility for the management of the innovative multimedia faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications of which Music is one of the five constituent Schools.
Mike Weatherly (MP for Hove and Portslade)
Mike was born in Clevedon, Somerset. He attended Kent College, Canterbury, and then South Bank University, London, where he was awarded a BA (Hons) in Business Studies.
In 1974, Mike moved to Brighton with his parents. His first job after university was at American Express in the Bank Reconciliations Department. He qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and Chartered Marketer and went on become Finance Director and part-owner of Newhaven-based Cash Bases. The company was awarded two Queen’s Awards for Industry and was also Sussex Company of the Year in 1999.
In 2000, Mike was made Financial Controller of the Pete Waterman Group and in 2007 became Vice President (Europe) for the Motion Picture Licensing Company. He has used his extensive knowledge of creative industries in Parliament to support local talent and to campaign for the greater use of Brighton & Hove as a filming location. He regularly attends rock and heavy metal concerts – as far away as Brazil – and is well known for his ‘House of Rock’ show on Radio Reverb.
Mike stood as a Parliamentary Candidate in Barking in 2001 and then in Brighton Pavilion in 2005. In the interim, he served as a Councillor in Crawley from 2005-6, before being selected as Parliamentary Candidate for Hove and Portslade in 2006. He was elected in May 2010 with a majority of 1,868.
Mike is a committed community activist, and engaged in a wide range of initiatives across the city. Locally, he serves as a Patron of the Martlets Hospice and of the Sussex M.E. Society.
Alex Aiken
Alex Aiken is Founder and Creative Director of Perfect Day, a design and advertising agency with offices in London, Canada and Germany
After working as an Art Director for McBains, Bates Dorlands and Saatchi & Saatchi Alex set up Perfect Day in Soho in 1999.
Perfect Day produces the full range of communications material from company branding to national advertising campaigns.
Current clients include McDonald's, The Conservative Party, Deutsche Bank and The Nike Foundation.
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