Association for Cultural Enterprises refreshes board

The Association for Cultural Enterprises has appointed four new trustees.

The new board members include director of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, STEVE GARDAM, who has previously held public engagement and education roles at London Transport Museum, Imperial War Museums and the Postal Museum.

Global immersive & experiential architecture and design leader at Gensler, ANN MORROW JOHNSON, who has also worked as global head of creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering, will also be joining the arts charity and trade body.

Rounding out the appointees are director of commercial enterprises at the National Trust for Scotland, CAROLINE REID, who is also the vice chair of the board at Craft Scotland, and GRAEME SILCOCKS, head of finance at Museum of the Home.

Silcocks held senior positions in the private sector, working for both public and private companies, before transitioning to the heritage sector.

The Association for Cultural Enterprises chair, MELANIE LEWIS, said the new trustees “bring formidable experience and knowledge from across our membership and indeed from across the world”.

“For the Association to attract such a breadth of talent and to have such tremendous enthusiasm for what we do speaks volumes about the ambitions and importance of our mission,” she added.