Our Team

Harriet is the head of Manners McDade at Faber Music and Head of International Creative. Before the acquisition by Faber Music, Harriet became Managing Director of Manners McDade in 2018, from her role as Global Creative Manager since 2014. Previously, she has a background in PR, sync and brand-building for contemporary classical, alternative and electronic labels and artists including Max Richter, Ben Frost, Nils Frahm and These New Puritans, after gaining an HE Diploma in Music Performance followed by a BA in English at King’s College London. Harriet is part of the Futures Group at the MPA as well as the UK Board for the leading voluntary international Women in Music organisation & network, shesaid.so, and is a co-founder of their mentorship programme she.grows. In 2019 she launched a concert series for women composers for film, TV and video games, composHER, with an inaugural concert at EartH, Hackney. Harriet was a PRSF Keychange Innovator participant, as well as Jury for the Classical:NEXT festival; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is recognised on a few years of the Music Industry Alternative Power 100 Lists, as well as the Music Week Roll of Honour.

Jenna is Head of Agency for the Manners McDade composer roster, both in the UK & Internationally. Joining Manners McDade in 2018, Jenna came from a background in Music Supervision. Previously in production music at Deep East Music – representing catalogues and managing bespoke projects for clients such as the BBC, MTV and Sky – Jenna began Music Supervising in 2015, moving to the Netherlands to open the Amsterdam office of bespoke music house Wake The Town. Jenna returned to London in 2017 working with both London and Amsterdam-based brands including PlayStation, Johnny Walker and Asics, before joining Manners McDade in 2018 as Music & Composition Producer. She founded the Women Composers’ Forum in Autumn 2018, which has since merged with the LA-founded Alliance For Women Film Composers, with Jenna named UK Director of Relations and elected to the AWFC board for three terms. In 2019 Jenna was awarded a place in the shesaid.so Alternative Power 100 List, and in 2020 became the Music Industry Advocate for under-represented talent directory, Free The Work.

Ruby gained a first class BA in Music Industry Management at Canterbury Christ Church University, followed by an MA in Film Studies at UCL with her dissertation focussing on contemporary film scoring. At university she was involved with the management of the student record label and concert series. She then worked at the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors, before joining Manners McDade as A&R Executive, working directly with composers for film and TV including ITV’s Thunderbirds Are Go and Amazon’s Catastrophe.

Having recently completed a masters in Entertainment Law at the University of Westminster, Ruby began handling all legal and contract work for Manners McDade, before specialising in Commercial Rights Business Affairs for Faber Music. Ruby speaks on a number of expert industry panels in the UK as well as at international conferences Music Finland’s Music & Media in Tampere and the East Coast Music Association in Halifax, Canada.

Ruby was raised in Brussels, Belgium and is fluent in French. She plays the piano, and sings with Margate’s Social Singing Choir.

Laura comes from a classically trained background with a Masters Degree in Music Composition from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Prior to joining Manners McDade in 2022 she gained 12 years experience in music supervision at independent creative music agency Soho Music, where she worked across all areas of music research, licensing and composition and most recently held the positions of Music Director and General Manager of Music Supervision.

With composition as a key area of expertise Laura has produced a number of award-winning advertising campaigns for global brands such as O2, Nike, TikTok, McLaren and Cadbury. She enjoys taking part in panel discussions and juries for events and awards hosted by organisations such as BAFTA, PRS and the Music and Sound Awards. She has also delivered teaching modules and masterclasses on music business and pitching at institutions such as the Royal College of Music and National Film and Television School.

Laura plays piano, clarinet and saxophone and outside of work and music she enjoys cooking, gardening and exploring the outdoors as much as possible.

Sarah joined the Manners McDade team in 2021 as the Creative Assistant to complete her ‘year in industry’ at the University of Surrey.

After graduating with a First Class Honours BMus Music degree, Sarah started working as Manners McDade’s Creative Executive in October 2023, working across the agency in contract negotiation, project management and score supervision.

Isobel comes from a classical music background, having studied Music and History at Royal Holloway University. She is a classically trained opera singer but also loves to belt out tunes at karaoke.

Her first job was at Decca Classics at Universal in A&R where she made Karl Jenkins ‘the worst cup of coffee he had ever tasted.’ She then moved onto BMG where she was in the sync team for 4 and a half years, working across a wide variety of genres in film and tv. Her passion in sync is film and tv, with a deep love for all John Williams scores, having decided to work in the industry after watching Jack Black in The Holiday. Isobel joined the Manners McDade team in October 2023 and works across sync creative and sync licensing for both Manners McDade & Faber Alt.

In her spare time Isobel loves to play netball, kickbox and swim. Her music taste is incredibly varied, yet she will still have Taylor Swift on her Spotify unwrapped every year.