Steve Currie, Ellie Pinnells, Harminder Randhawa and Clare Richards have joined the board this week.
Steve Currie is a chartered accountant with over 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector in Birmingham and London.
Following his retirement in 2023 he now acts as a board adviser and mentor and is currently a trustee of the Warwickshire Cricket Foundation.
Ellie Pinnells trained as a lawyer and is now head of Litigation at Squire Patton Boggs in Birmingham.
Ellie, who studied music at Bristol University, plays both the clarinet and piano, is director of a wellbeing choir and is training as a ballet pianist.
She supports children to gain access to music and the arts.
Harminder Randhawa is currently a finance manager at Jaguar Land Rover.
She is also a member of the board of trustees at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery where she chaired the risk committee for three years.
Charity leader Clare Richards is director of the Coutts Foundation which supports charities helping women affected by domestic abuse and supporting young people to access the performing arts.
She is a founder and Trustee of IntoUniversity a charity providing local learning centres for over 60,000 young people and a Trustee of the Grenfell Foundation.
Clare was awarded an MBE in 2011 for services to the community.
Sir David Normington, Birmingham Royal Ballet chair, said: “Steve, Clare, Ellie and Harminder combine a real passion for dance and music with a strong commitment to the success of BRB. I, and the rest of the board, look forward to working with them.”
The new quartet replace four long-standing directors - Deborah Spence, Michael Elliott and Anthony Coombs - who have reached the end of their two terms.
