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Pact Council Election Results

Jane Muirhead, Managing Director of Raise the Roof Productions has been re-appointed Pact Chair, with 11 further Council Members appointed for 2025-26.

News
11 Dec 2024

The results of the 2024 Pact Council Election have been announced at the Pact AGM, which took place at 11:00am on Wednesday 11th December.

Jane Muirhead has been re-appointed Pact Chair. She was first appointed as Pact Chair at the end of 2022 and has served an initial two-year period. Jane is Co-Founder and MD of Glasgow based Raise the Roof Productions. The company has delivered over 1000 hours of network TV and sold to numerous countries worldwide with top titles including Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It. Under Jane’s leadership, staff wellbeing and career development form the pillars of the company ethos, and Raise the Roof has featured in the top 20 Broadcast Best Places to Work in TV in 2017, 18 and 19 and in the top 10 in subsequent years.


Pact Council
Members

A further 11 Council positions were announced at the AGM. The members, who stood for election and were voted for by eligible Pact members, will serve a two-year term running from January 2025 to December 2026. Pact Council oversees the work of our organisation, signing off budgets and financial plans, as well as agreeing policies, campaigns, terms of trade and collective agreements.

The 2025-26 Pact Council members are:

Headshot: Jane Kelly - a woman with short red hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue/green jacket and top.

N.Ireland Representative

Jane Kelly
Big Mountain Productions
(uncontested)

Headshot: Claire Mundell - a woman with fair hair tied back from her face, wearing a dark top.

Scotland Representative

Claire Mundell
Synchronicity Films
(uncontested)

Headshot: Emyr Afan - a man with a short goatee beard and bald head, wearing a white shirt.

Wales
Representative

Emyr Afan OBE
Afanti Media
(re-elected)

Headshot: Kate Beal - a woman with long curly brown hair, she is wearing red lipstick and a red top.

Kate Beal
Woodcut Media
(re-elected)

Headshot: Tom Brisley - a man with short dark hair wearing a white shirt and blue suit jacket.

Tom Brisley
Arrow Media
(re-elected)

Headshot: Paul Cohen - a man with short black hair and a greying short beard wearing black-rimmed glasses and a light blue shirt.

Paul Cohen
Hat Trick Productions
(newly elected)

Headshot: Laura Crowley - a woman with long red hair wearing a royal blue top.

Laura Crowley
Sister
(newly elected)

Headshot: Christine Healey - a woman with shoulder-length straight brown hair wearing a black top.

Christine Healy
Playground Entertainment
(newly elected)

Headshot: Jacqueline Moreton, a woman with long dark hair wearing a dark top and large necklace.

Jacqueline Moreton
Banijay UK
(re-elected)

Headshot: Holly Pye, a woman with long fair hair wearing a black top.

Holly Pye
Objective Media Group
(re-elected)

Headshot: Tim Sealey - a man with short brown hair wearing glasses, a light blue shirt and black suit jacket.

Tim Sealey
Roughcut Television
(newly elected)

Outgoing Council
Members

We would like to thank the Council members who will be standing down at the end of December, for their service to Pact and the wider industry over the past two years:

  • Alex Jones - Joint MD, Red Planet Pictures & Vice-Chair of Pact Council 
  • Alistair Davis - Legal Media Director, E1 Series
  • Billy Macqueen - Board Director, Darrall Macqueen
  • Emma Rosa-Dias - Managing Director, Afro-Mic Productions
  • James Burstall - CEO, Argonon
  • Julie Baines - Founder & Producer, Dan Films
  • Nicky Bentham - Founder and Producer, Neon Films
  • Steve Warr - Managing Director, Raw Cut Television
  • Thomasina Gibson - Founder & Producer, Heroes Productions
     
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