Experts in the field, we produce and manage some of the UK's biggest most popular shows.

Jim started his career as a stagehand in local theatre back in 1995. Three decades later, with a broad technical & creative background encompassing festivals, theatre, arts, brands, and music, he continues to relish the challenges and opportunities provided by the industry. 

As a founding partner of Engine No4, Jim oversees Site Design and Management across the current festival portfolio whilst also fulfilling Event and Project Director roles on The Warehouse Project, Kendal Calling, and Lost Village. 

Jim continues to be active within the theatre and live art sector, recognising the value that the creativity and attention to detail required by those disciplines brings to larger-scale events and brand activations. 

Jon has been in the entertainment industry since leaving school, working in various roles from touring with bands during the Madchester era to production managing the iconic venue, The Haçienda Jon has been instrumental in the inception and development of some of the UK’s most celebrated and well-loved festivals, including Parklife and Bluedot, as well as legendary music series The Warehouse Project. He is a co-founder and Director of Freight Island, a Director of Broadwick Group, a very proud Trustee of The Loop and a Patron of Attitude is Everything.

Jon is Production Manager at EN4. He works on Snowbombing, Parklife, Lost Village, Warehouse Project, Beyond Midnight, Heritage Live.

Tom Kitchen is Production Manager at EN4, with over a decade of experience in stage management, live event production, and logistics management. He began his career in 2009, working across a range of stage management roles during the growth of independent UK festivals including Y Not, Truck, 2000 Trees and ArcTanGent. From 2018, Tom expanded into wider production and logistics, working across major events such as Festival No.6, Glastonbury, Field Day and Common People. Since the pandemic, he has taken on lead roles as Main Stage Manager at events including Cambridge Club, Strawberries & Creem, Heritage Live and Boardmasters. He has also been a regular freelance stage manager at KOKO Camden since 2022.Alongside his production work, Tom has experience in higher education, having taught undergraduate and postgraduate students in tourism, events, cultural heritage, sports business, and arts and culture management as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. He currently supervises MBA students at the University of Chester. He holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management and is undertaking a PhD focused on place making.

Katie brings over 30 years of experience in the arts and live events. She began her career as a Stage Manager in theatre, working both across the UK and internationally. Following over a decade as a producer at the Manchester International Festival (MIF), she joined EN4 after serving as Director of Producing and Production at the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Marco joined the team in 2024 after 15 years as a freelancer. Marco worked part time in events as a student while studying for a degree at Manchester Metropolitan University. He worked his way up from crewing to site management over his years as a freelancer.

Meg graduated from MMU with a degree in Events Management and joined EN4 in 2021. She contributes to key projects including Snowbombing, Parklife, Kendal Calling, Lost Village and Warehouse Project.

Sheena graduated from MMU with a degree in Events Management and joined EN4 in 2019. As our Operations Manager, she leads the operations teams on key projects including Snowbombing, Parklife, Lost Village, alongside being one of our account managers on our brand activations.

Verity joined Engine No 4 full-time in 2026 as the Operations Assistant, after working with the team as a freelancer for five years. She graduated from BIMM in 2021 and has worked in both the corporate and live music event industries since then, having supported festivals and events across multiple countries.

Tommy has over 30 years of experience in the live music and event industry, encompassing roles ranging from staging, rigging, backline, AV tech and stage management through to tour & production management, project management and festival production management. He tours extensively worldwide with several live and electronic artists as well as managing full technical production on several large scale shows such as Parklife, Snowbombing, Kendal Calling, Bluedot, Heritage Live, Live from Wythenshawe Park.

Will has over 25 years of experience in the live events industry, starting agency side working on events and activations for major brands. Will moved from the world of branded events into festivals, assuming the role of Operations Director on 80,000 capacity Parklife and 30,000 capacity Kendal Calling. His responsibilities including licensing, security, policing and transport. Will is experienced in the differing demands of a 200 capacity press launch right through to a large urban metropolitan festival.

Luke decided to take the summer off from his “day job” and work festivals in Western Australia for the summer. Fast forward almost 15 years and he is on the other side of the world delivering large-scale events with EN4.  He has managed to turn his passion for music festivals into his “day job” and enjoys everything that comes with it.”  He is involved in Parklife, Kendal Calling, Live at Wythenshawe Park, The Warehouse Project, and more as a Site and Operations Manager at Engine No.4