Graham Thrower

Graham is a Director and founder of the North East based music business alt.vinyl; an online and physical retailer of music, as well as an increasingly successful record label. He is a major contributor to the region’s creative and cultural activities through alt.vinyl, his founder membership of North East Recordings Organisation (concerned with retention of musical intellectual property in the region) and his work promoting live music and festivals with No-Fi and INPUT.

Graham’s background is in Corporate Finance, primarily the Telecom, Media and Technology “TMT” sectors where he played a leading role raising debt and equity for new ventures and transactions in over 30 countries between 1988 and 2002. Having worked earlier in his career with LloydsTSB and Société Générale, he was from 1998 at the global investment bank Citigroup where latterly he was a Managing Director.

Through a wide reaching business and personal life (Graham is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society) Graham has become a firm advocate of the value of networks and promotes the increasingly outward looking nature of the North East region. Through his diverse business experience with some of the world’s largest companies and forming his own start up company, Graham brings a wealth of commercial experience to the Board, as he has been doing since mid 2007 as a member of One North East’s Business Development Committee.