Trevor is Director of the Radio Academy, a UK registered charity dedicated to the encouragement, recognition and promotion of excellence in broadcasting and audio production. He also works as a writer, broadcaster, producer and media consultant. His first book, a biography of Nick Drake called "Darker Than The Deepest Sea" was published in 2006. He produces programmes for BBC Radio 2 and podcasts for companies including the Financial Times and Williams F1 and contributes regularly to Word magazine. He founded the imaginatively named Trevor Dann's Company in 2002.
He was previously Head of BBC Music Entertainment (1996-2000) responsible for all the corporation's in-house pop music production including Radio 1, Radio 2, Top of the Pops, Glastonbury, Later with Jools Holland, World Service pop output and international distribution. He is best known in the music industry as the man who overhauled Radio 1's music policy during the repositioning of the station in the mid-nineties. He previously worked as a local radio reporter and producer (Radio Nottingham 1974-79), a Radio 1 producer (1979-83), producer of Whistle Test and Live Aid for BBC TV (1983-88) and as Managing Editor of the BBC's London radio station GLR (1988-93) where he helped launch the radio careers of Chris Evans, Chris Morris and Danny Baker among many others. He has also run his own independent radio production company, Confederate Broadcasting (1993-96), and acted as a commercial radio consultant.
As Managing Director of Pop for Emap (2000-2), he was responsible for the Smash Hits brand on all media platforms and for the co-ordination of Emap's pop music strategy. He developed the Smash Hits Chart and oversaw the launch of both the Smash Hits TV channel and the Smash Hits Radio Show, which won a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2001. He was also responsible for the music policy on Emap's Big City radio stations and was executive producer of the Smash Hits Pollwinners Party (2000 and 2001) and the Q Awards and Kerrang Awards (2001) for Channel 4. Between 2002 and 2004 he presented BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast show.
Trevor was educated at Nottingham High School and Fitzwilliam College Cambridge. He also graduated from the Executive Program at the University of Michigan. He has been a weekly columnist for The Times and The Sunday Telegraph and contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, The Evening Standard, Q, Music Week and Mojo. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Radio Academy and a winner of several Sony Awards for radio presentation and production and a BAFTA for Live Aid. In 1999 he was awarded the Country Music Association's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement & Promotion of Country Music Internationally. He was Chairman of Ashwell Academicals FC from 1999 to 2006.
Trevor lives near Cambridge, is married (to Maureen) and has two children, Celia (15) and Henry (13).