Nik Powell is one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group alongside Richard Branson. Virgin Group Ltd is a branded Venture capital conglomerate of separately run companies that each use the Virgin brand of British business tycoon Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 is an English Business magnate, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies Having run a small music shop together in London, they set up Virgin Records in 1972 and became one of the UK's major recording labels until they sold to EMI in 1992. Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music – which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in Powell married 60s singer Sandie Shaw in the early 80s and helped relaunch her career during that decade. Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947) was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s They have two children together, Amie and Jack, and divorced in the early 1990s.
In 1983, Nik, alongside Stephen Woolley, founded Palace Productions - which went on to produce The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992). The Company of Wolves is a 1984 gothic fantasy - Horror film directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Sarah Patterson and Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class Call girl. The Crying Game is a 1992 film written and directed by Neil Jordan. After presiding over the collapse of Palace Pictures in 1992, Nik Powell controversially re-established himself in the film industry with Scala Productions in the early 1990s and has since produced Fever Pitch, TwentyFourSeven, Last Orders and Ladies In Lavender.
He is currently director of the National Film & Television School in England, although he remains chairman of Scala Productions.
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