Scottish Cultural Enterprise is a leading consultancy to the creative and cultural industries.

 

Read more about our core team below.

MATTHEW ROOKE
Over the past 25 years Matthew Rooke has pursued a parallel career embracing both general arts management and professional music-making at a high level. As an arts administrator he has extensive experience throughout all aspects of business start up and project development, financial management and strategic planning across a wide range of arts organisations in both public and private sectors. In particular he specialises in Negotiation & Mediation, Business Start Up, Strategy Development, Feasibility Studies and Funding. Matthew's employment experience includes seven years as Music Director and subsequently Group Director at the Scottish Arts Council and as a composer and performer he has worked for companies such as The Royal National Theatre and The Haymarket and has recorded with such artists as James Taylor, Nitin Sawhney and John Tavener. Matthew has an MA (Hons) from St. Andrews University and subsequently studied as a scholar at Berklee School of Music and also at the University of the West Indies.. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain.

ERIKA KING
Erika is a professionally qualified company secretary with substantial experience in all aspects of planning and administration in a wide range of arts, heritage and film organisations in both public and private sectors. In particular Erika specialises in Strategy Development, Feasibility Studies, Lottery Applications & Assessments, Project Management & Process Development and Evaluation & Monitoring. Erika has previously been employed as Subsidies Officer for the Arts Council of Great Britain, Administrative Director of Glasgow's Third Eye Centre and Deputy Director of the Scottish Film Council. She has been a Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators since 1983 and holds a BA (Hons) degree.

SARAH MCNULTY
Sarah gained a diploma in Media and Business in 2002, having studied Web Design, Sound Technology and Multimedia at Stow College and Caledonian University. Going straight to working in production at T in the Park, she joined Scottish Cultural Enterprise three months later. Sarah now administers the New Deal for Musicians mentoring programme.

FRASER WHITE
Fraser obtained an ESRC-funded Masters degree in Social History from the University of Glasgow in 2004, having gained an MA Honours degree in Politics and Economic & Social History from the same institution two years previously.  He worked in research roles for Falkirk Council and the Medical Research Council before joining Scottish Cultural Enterprise as Research Coordinator in 2007.