posted 26 Apr 2012
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Board Members
Sue Harrison (Chair)
Sue has considerable experience in the arts, having worked as Director of Arts at the British Council, Chief Executive of North West Arts and Deputy Director of Yorkshire and Humberside Arts. Now working as an international consultant she brings with her valuable skills in governance, personnel, arts policy and programme development, strategic planning, and the management of change.
Marc Collett
Worked for past 15 years in the arts and creative industries, has run an Arvon Foundation creative writing centre, worked for North West Arts Board and for Government Office Merseyside. Managed Merseyside ACME for seven years and was closely involved in the community engagement strand of the European Capital of Culture bid. Now runs a consultancy firm specialising in creative industries policy, research and project management.
Lyndsey Fryer
Head of Education and Visitor Programmes at Tate Gallery Liverpool.
Maureen Royce
Commercial background in Human Resource Management and currently senior lecturer in HRM at Liverpool John Moores University. Research interests include equality, diversity and social inclusion. On a voluntary basis, Maureen provides HRM support to local social enterprise and voluntary sector organisations.
Rachael Higham
Board member since March 2006. Key areas of involvement with Bluecoat so far have been recruitment of Head of Finance and new Auditors; strategic planning; developing relaunch plan, objectives and risk assessment; board development and development of KPIs; ongoing review of financial performance and management accounts. Currently systems director (Europe, Middle East & Africa) for a US Insurance group. Rachel previously held a number of programme and technical management roles in financial services, consultancy in the eCommerce and Charity sectors and was an accountant/auditor in the charity sector
Robert Corbett
Having worked at Liverpool City Council for over 30 years Robert’s most recent post was as the City Treasure where he had statutory responsibility for overseeing the finances and financial administration of the City Council.
Amy de Joia
Is Executive Director of Development and Communications at National Museums Liverpool (NML). She took up the post in August 2002. She heads up all marketing, communications, fundraising, exhibitions, and partnership programmes. She has recently also taken on NML’s catering and retail operations.
Amy lectures widely on project management, and museum development, and has advised many museums and cultural organisations on capital project delivery and fundraising. She is currently a Board member of the National Wildflower Centre and of the American Museum in Britain.
Amy is married with two - football mad - children (boys aged 17 and 14). Her husband, Dave Brewitt, is the owner and creator of Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool’s first boutique hotel.
Angela Anderson
MD of a reputation Management consultancy she had 20 years of working around the world as a journalist before moving into public relations in local government and the NHS, there gaining expertise in board level management roles extending beyond the remit of public relations. She has previous experience as a trustee of an arts organisation and she is a trustee of a national charity.
Cy Powell
Cy, until his retirement at the end of 2011, worked in development and regeneration for a number of registered social landlords. His most recent post was as Regeneration Director for a housing association in north Liverpool where from 2007, he pioneered the use of the arts to engage tenants and residents and encourage community involvement.
Emmanuel Matan
Dr. Emmanuel Matan is the Managing Director of Matan International Group, which he established in 1984 as Matan & Partners Limited.
He attended Bolton Institute of Technology, Liverpool JM University and the University of Manchester in UK. He started his career with the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board, followed by 12 years at senior level with Parkman Consultants from where he joined the Merseyside Development Corporation as the Principal Engineer for the development of the Liverpool International Garden Festival, Albert Dock, South docks and Birkenhead designated areas.
Mike Furniss
Extensive background in implementing and managing IT and business change, both with a major online price comparison website, and previously with a large insurance group. Now a consultant specialising in providing IT and business consultancy to rapidly growing companies.