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Paul James – Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new CEO<\/p>\nPaul James has been officially appointed to the top post – having been acting chief executive since last December, following the sad death of Caroline Miller who has been chief executive since 2018.<\/p>\n
Paul James – Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new CEO<\/p>\n
The appointment of Paul James, who prior to becoming acting CEO was the company’s chief commercial officer, follows an extensive and internationally reaching recruitment process.<\/p>\n
Carlos Acosta, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, said: “I am looking forward very much to working closely with my colleague Paul James as I congratulate him on his appointment as our new CEO.<\/p>\n
“I am deeply grateful to Paul for his steadfast commitment in stabilising the company following the untimely death of our much-missed CEO Caroline Miller in December 2024.<\/p>\n
“Paul\u2019s contribution over the past seven years has been instrumental in laying the strong foundations we have already achieved as a Company, and I welcome with enthusiasm the opportunity to build on these with Paul to achieve even greater things for the company in the future.”<\/p>\n
Paul, who lives in Herefordshire, said of his appointment: “It is an honour to be asked to stand alongside Carlos Acosta and lead this extraordinary company forward. These are not easy days for the arts and cultural sector, but I know just what the team here can do, and together we will continue to transform the business of ballet.”<\/p>\n
Before joining Birmingham Royal Ballet as chief commercial officer in October 2017, Paul – a brand and business change specialist – worked as senior vice president in global brand marketing for a Fortune 500 Company in New York and for a privately held hospitality brand in Singapore.<\/p>\n
Since joining the ballet company, he has been a key member of the leadership team – transforming its sales and marketing function, rebranding with the arrival of Carlos Acosta as director and leading a digital transformation after the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n
Sir David Normington, chair of Birmingham Royal Ballet, said: \u2018I am absolutely delighted with the appointment of Paul James as chief executive. I know he combines a passion for our mission to take great ballet everywhere, with the leadership and management skills to help us meet financial and other challenges that lie ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He and Carlos Acosta will be a great team and I am looking forward to working with them both to bring exciting and ambitious programming to the widest possible audiences.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul James has been officially appointed to the top post – having been acting chief executive since last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,51,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-122798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114552070735592485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}