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Who's in and who's out
Gideon Spanier, Evening Standard22 Apr 2008
The energy of London is nowhere more reflected than in the shifting balance of power among its thoughtmakers, trendsetters and leaders. Every week, Gideon Spanier looks at who's in and who's out.
NEW ON THE LIST
SPORT
MANOJ BADALE, 40s
CRICKET ENTREPRENEUR
London-based businessman running a team in the lucrative new Indian Premier League for cricket. Badale raised £33 million with Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan to win the right to field a team, called the Rajasthan Royals. Cambridge-educated Badale has shown he means business by poaching Shane Warne from Hampshire to captain and coach the side. He wants English players in the IPL too. The TV audience is likely to run into tens of millions across Asia and could have a dramatic effect on cricket here.
MUSIC
NICK GATFIELD, 40s
EMI PRESIDENT OF A&R
Veteran boss of Island Records, who masterminded the success of singers Amy Winehouse and Mika, has been poached by private equity firm Terra Firma to run EMI. Gatfield's priority will be to rebuild trust after an exodus of artists such as Radiohead and Sir Paul McCartney. Gatfield knows how to look after artists' egos - he began his career in Eighties pop band Dexy's Midnight Runners.
OFF THE LIST
BUSINESS
TOM GLOCER, 48
CHIEF EXECUTIVE THOMSON REUTERS
Savvy American former lawyer moving back to his native land after a seven-year spell running Reuters here. He successfully completed the sale of Reuters to fellow news agency Thomson last week, netting himself around £25 million, and is now going to be chief executive of the newly merged company in New York. A consummate networker, expect father-of-two Glocer to be a frequent visitor to London.
MAKING MOVES
NEW MEDIA
ASHLEY HIGHFIELD, 42
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, KANGAROO
Highly regarded BBC executive, who masterminded the success of the iPlayer, the corporation's online TV download service, has been poached to run Kangaroo, a one-stop website for video, run jointly between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide. If Highfield can make it work, Kangaroo might just become a viable commercial rival to YouTube.
ARTS
JENNY ABRAMSKY, 61
HERITAGE BOSS
Appointed the new chairwoman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, responsible for dispensing Lottery money to good causes. Theatre and music fan Abramsky is moving from her job as head of radio at the BBC, where she has worked for 39 years, including a stint as editor of Radio 4's Today programme. She leaves the corporation with a £4 million pension pot.
UP AND COMING
MUSIC
LEONA LEWIS, 23
SINGER
Simon Cowell protégée, who won his TV talent show X Factor in 2006, turning into a bona fide international pop star. Her throaty soul songs may not be to everyone's taste but no one can argue with her record sales - her debut album Sprit reached No 1 in the US charts last week, after her single Bleeding Love did the same in the US singles charts. Lewis was born and raised in Hackney and went to stage school here. Shy and self-effacing, she just might have staying power.
