Mark’s career has been spent entirely in the heritage sector with senior roles at English Heritage as Director of National Collections and previously at the Science Museum and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. His experience focusses on operational and commercial management of museums and heritage bodies. He has a number of non-executive roles. He is Chairman of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, a trustee of Barts Heritage and of Trent Park Museum Trust.  He is also a director of NMRN Operations Ltd (the operational arm of the National Museum of the Royal Navy). Mark read history at Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Museums Association.

After studying Human Resource Management at De Montfort University, Fiona has held a number of senior roles in a variety of diverse organisations as she built her career including large corporates, family businesses and a de-regulation start-up.  A keen student of history, Fiona became a Trustee of the Operating Company in 2018.

Je is the Founding Director of Studio Weave. As an architect he has designed and led on projects ranging from large scale housing schemes to civic infrastructure, schools and heritage.  His work has been recognised nationally and internationally by awards and publications.  Je is a design review panel member for a number of London boroughs, offering critical review of development proposals across London.

Andrew is a director of CO2 Architects. He was formerly a director of Real Live Leisure Group and Grant Leisure Group. He was Chief Executive of the WARGM Company for 5 years. He is a trustee of the Kingstone Academy Trust.

Rosanna Lawes is a nationally respected leader in urban regeneration, with over two decades of experience delivering complex, large-scale development programmes. She led the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, (QEOP) one of the UK’s most ambitious regeneration projects and is recognised as one of, if not the best example of Olympic Legacy programmes internationally. Her career spans strategic land assembly, infrastructure coordination and stakeholder governance delivered in partnership with the private sector.  She has undertaken major project reviews for His Majesty’s Government and supported a trade mission to Morocco to assist with their readiness to host the 2030 World Cup.

Andy trained in Chartered accountancy and investment banking before undertaking senior finance roles in large international retail and leisure companies.  For the last twenty-five years he has operated primarily in the online gambling industry including CEO of two major listed UK companies and Chairman of a private equity owned Italian operator.  He is currently a non-executive director of B90 Holdings Plc and a governor of the Royal Albert and Alexandra Schhool.

Kate is the Director of Public Engagement & Commercial at the Old Royal Naval College, who she joined in April 2020.

Prior to this Kate worked as Head of Operations at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she oversaw Front of House, Box Office, Venue Hire, Events and Operations as well as project managing several major high profile fundraising events.

She brings over ten years of experience working in the arts and events sector and has worked in a number of theatres and arts venues in London and America, where she lived for 5 years.

Will is CEO of Barts Heritage where he led the recent £9.5m restoration project to the historic North Wing. He is an architectural historian, writer, campaigner and heritage expert.  Most recently he worked as Conservation Director at the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich where he led the multi-award-winning Painted Hall conservation project. Will has lectured widely on 18th- and 19th-century art and architecture and is a former columnist of Country Life magazine. He is a trustee of the Georgian Group and the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College. Until 2024 he was Chair of the Sheerness Historic Buildings Trust leading the acclaimed project to restore and rejuvenate the Grade II*-listed Dockyard Church. 

James is a Chartered Accountant having qualified with PricewaterhouseCoopers. James currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Inspired Entertainment Inc with responsibility for all areas of Finance and Accounting across 35 international regulated markets and jurisdictions.  He resides in North East London with his family close to the Royal Gunpowder Mills site.