AEM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate ( Managing Director Lumina Search )
Anne has worked in Executive Recruitment in the Media Sector for over 12 years and in the Media as a whole for over 20 years. Formerly Joint MD of Searchlight Executive, she has worked with a wide range of clients from small start-ups to large multi-national corporations.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, she is also a qualified tester for Level B psychometric testing.
Before Searchlight, Anne was Executive Director of BKSTS, a professional organisation for technology professionals within the media sector.
Esther is an executive search researcher and delivery consultant with over 16 years of experience recruiting across multiple sectors and disciplines, both in the UK and internationally. She has completed executive search projects in the arts and entertainment, media, technology, e-commerce and retail, education and NGO sectors. She started her career in a boutique search firm before moving to Korn Ferry, and later the Times Educational Supplement.
Esther has worked with AEM International on a range of search assignments over the past eight years and has developed a particular interest in recruiting for clients in the non-profit, social enterprise, education, and arts and entertainment sectors.
She graduated with a BA in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute, University of London.
Heather Newill, Managing Director of AEM International, is an experienced search consultant specialising in placing senior personnel for the arts, entertainment and creative industries.
In 1997 Heather was invited by A.T. Kearney Executive Search to establish the UK Arts and Non-profit Division where she built up a successful and highly regarded practice. She then moved to become Director of the Arts, Entertainment and Media Practice at Friedlander Sachs where she acquired executive talent for global entertainment corporations in addition to undertaking senior executive searches for leading arts organisations.
In January 2004 Heather founded AEM International Ltd., Arts, Entertainment and Media Executive Search, to specialise in search for leadership for the arts and creative industries.
Heather has 20 years experience herself in senior level arts management and was formerly Manager of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Executive of the Orchestra of St John's and Festival Director of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. She has an excellent understanding of the cultural, entertainment and media worlds and has extensive contacts internationally.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Managing Director
- Senior Consultant
Helen has a unique breadth of creative and leadership experience in the arts and cultural sector. She was formerly Managing Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Director of Music at Arts Council England, and Executive Director for NMC Recording Limited. Earlier in her career, Helen was an award-winning Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 Television and a documentary film-maker on BBC 2's ‘The Late Show'.
Helen was involved in many leadership appointments when at Arts Council England and since 2019 has moved into executive search. She is well networked across the music and arts sectors internationally and brings personal experience of leading teams and delivering change from within large and complex institutions.
Helen trained as a cellist and graduated from UCL. She is a Trustee of the Academy of Ancient Music and a Non-Executive Director of St Martin-in-the-Fields Ltd.
Pippa has been working in international executive search for over 20 years and specialises exclusively in assignments within the Arts and Entertainment fields. She leads senior level executive appointments across a wide range of geographic regions covering the established markets of the UK, Western Europe, North America and Australasia as well as newer emerging markets, including the Middle East and Asia. Pippa previously worked in the London office of A.T. Kearney Executive Search where she partnered with Heather in the Arts Practice in addition to supporting colleagues in both the Public Sector and Life Sciences practices. She has been a Senior Consultant with AEM International since it was founded in 2004.
Pippa trained at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance and obtained her BA (Hons) Dance Theatre from City University, London