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Kim is an ex US Army engineer officer, educated at Harvard Business School, MIT, and the US Military Academy at West Point. During her time serving in Afghanistan she co-founded Rumi Spice, employing over 4,000 Afghan women. Kim is on the board of Bunker Labs, Alipes, and Solar Service and was Pickle Robot’s COO.
Rosie is an audio producer, editor and multimedia producer with 15 years of experience at BBC programmes. She led the team making one of the BBC’s early experimental podcasts, iPM, for which she won a Radio Academy Award. Rosie joined The Economist to produce their flagship podcast, Economist Asks, leaving in 2020 to create Blanchard House. Here, she leads the development team finding the best stories and making beautiful scripted shows.
Joe is the writer, reporter and presenter of the popular podcast, “The Shrink Next Door.” A long-time print journalist in the U.S., Joe was the editorial director of Fortune magazine, and spent a dozen years as a columnist for the New York Times. Joe’s written four books, including the New York Times best-seller, “All The Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis” with Bethany McLean.
Alex hosts Google Ventures’ podcast, Theory & Practice and is a research scientist at Google Brain. His work focuses on building more flexible machine learning software systems, and also applications of machine learning to biology. Alex loves the science and psychology behind telling stories, both in written and verbal form, and completed his PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard.
Becky is a multi award winning journalist joining Blanchard House from the BBC. She presents the Radio 4 documentary Profile and created, produced and presented one of the first podcasts for the BBC, “At Lunch with…” Her podcast series The Home Babies was awarded Gold at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
With 25 years experience covering the biggest stories of our time and winning numerous awards, Philly is a founding member and editor of the award-winning Beyond Today podcast. She left the BBC to help launch the London Times Radio Station and runs her own media company commissioning projects from the London School of Economics and publishing houses.
Seren is an award-winning Welsh, Zimbabwean journalist shortlisted by the Radio Academy as one of their 30 Under 30 finalists in 2020 and was one of the founding producers of BBC’s Beyond Today podcast. Seren also co-founded the Black Swimming Association (the BSA), a charity set up to encourage more people from African Caribbean and Asian communities to engage in aquatics.
Poppy is an award-winning executive podcast producer and investigative radio journalist, previously at The London Times and The Sunday Times. Her work includes The Full Fact 2015 election podcast, The Next Episode and Americast at the BBC, Stories of our Times at the Times of London, Murderabilia, Blood Ties, Pseudocide, and Brexitcast.
Duncan is an award-winning audio producer with nearly a decade’s experience in podcasts and public radio. He started his career on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programmes; Today, the World at One and PM. Later he helped to develop and launch the BBC’s award-winning podcast Beyond Today. He joined the Economist as a senior producer on its daily news podcast, The Intelligence. In 2021 he launched the newspaper’s first stand-alone podcast series, The Jab, on the global vaccination campaign for covid-19.
Daniel is a composer and sound designer who has worked on podcasts such as The Intelligence, Google Ventures, London School of Economics, and TV including the BBC’s Cities: Nature’s New Wild and National Geographic’s Primal Survivor.
James was Senior Manager, Contracts & Business Affairs at Hachette UK before joining Blanchard House, bringing more than 30 of experience at imprints including Jonathan Cape, BBC Books, Macmillan Children’s Books and Picador.
Jess is a brand strategist and communications specialist with 10 years of experience applying her extensive knowledge of contemporary culture and trends in commercial settings. She’s worked with agencies including Ragged Edge, Design Studio, DLMDD, and Here Design, as well as directly with brands including Glenfiddich, Bombay Sapphire, Logitech, British Journal of Photography, Brighton Festival and Studio Voltaire.
Louis is experienced in composing and arranging music, mixing podcast audio, and education.
Volkan is a sound designer and field recordist who brings a wealth of experience in sound arts and broadcast audio. Previously he has worked with Bloomberg Television, Somethin’ Else, The Times and The Sunday Times. He has worked on podcasts such as Stories of Our Times, Thinking Straight, Out To Lunch with Jay Rayner, Katy Brand and Katherine Parkinson’s Women Like Us, and The Penguin Podcast from Penguin Random House.
As a freelance editor, Toby has produced contemporary classical music for Hyperion and Naxos record labels, as well as recitals for broadcast by Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. He was previously an arts administrator in schools and universities, including at the University of Cambridge, where he studied. He is a professional singer and won the Sheila Mossman Memorial Prize for piano in 2013.