Lisa Francesca Nand
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Lisa Francesca Nand (born Bromborough, Wirral, July 24th 1974) is a journalist and broadcaster (also known as Chessy) currently co-presenting the late night show on UK radio station talkSPORT.
[edit] Early Career
As a student in Brighton in the mid 1990's Lisa became involved in promoting club nights and bars. After graduating from the University of Brighton in 1998 she moved to Amsterdam and spent a year there and in Antwerp promoting small gigs in local venues. Moving back to Brighton in 1999 she worked for the Essential Festival as a music press officer. She then worked for Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments as a press officer and also in artist liaison. She subsequently became a producer corporate films and events (BAFTA's, Q Awards, internation conferences) before retraining in radio.
[edit] Media career
From an early age Lisa was involved in acting, singing and modelling before a thyroid illness in her early 20's put a stop to some of her performing. She carried on doing did many voice-overs for radio stations and corporate clients and eventually began to pursue this as a career. After retraining as a Broadcast Journalist at the London College of Printing (2003-4) Lisa worked as a newsreader at BBC Southern Counties Radio, as a travel reporter for several stations including talkSPORT. Her first radio presenting job was on cult dance station Passion before she presented a weekly music show networked on BBC Southern Counties and BBC Radio Solent. She was also a regular cover co-presenter for Tommy Boyd's Saturday night show on BBC SCR.
As well as co-presenting the late night show on talkSPORT she does a weekly music review with Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs, writes and reports for several other media (recent articles in the Media Guardian, Daily Mail and on Radio 4).
[edit] Personal information
Lisa was born to an English mother and an Indian Fijian father. She attended Poulton Lancelyn primary school on the Wirral until the age of 7 when the family moved to Malaga, Spain. In Spain she attended St Anthony's College English school until the age of 16 when she briefly went to live in Stratford upon Avon before moving to Brighton to attend Varndean College. She went to Brighton University to study History of Design. Her parents still live in Spain and she has an older brother, Marcus, who is a professional musician. She is also a patron of National thyroid charity Thyroid UK.
