Alex Matthews
Alex is an HR Director with over 25 years of experience and has worked in senior roles in organisations including St Paul’s Cathedral, Conran, English National Opera and Armani amongst others. She’s experienced in areas including Culture and Leadership, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Talent Management and Global Mobility. She is also a sculptor, mother and volunteer including for the homeless charity Glassdoor.

Alice Boff
Alice has worked in some of the UK’s leading cultural organisations including Saatchi Gallery, Artangel, Royal Academy of Arts and was part of the team that conceived and delivered the award-winning 14-18 NOW programme, connecting people with the First World War by working in partnership with heritage and arts organisations across the UK to commission artists such as Rachel Maclean, Jeremy Deller and John Akomfrah.

Caspar van Eijck
Dutch national Caspar works in finance with global asset manager PIMCO, with European institutional clients such as pension funds and insurance companies.
He has lived in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. He grew up with a passion for the arts and has fulfilled multiple roles in the charity sector. Caspar holds a master’s degree in general economics from the University of Maastricht and has studied art and art history at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

Jeff Pym
Jeff has been a chartered accountant for over 30 years, having been CFO for a range of businesses, primarily in real estate, including a Housing Association, small start-ups and listed companies. He has significant experience of business finance, strategy, governance and risk management. Having worked for himself for a number of years he has an understanding of the pressures for individuals running their own businesses and those seeking small professional space from which to operate.

Michelle Kershaw (Chair)
Michelle is a consultant and a property lawyer with extensive experience working in the City of London with tier 1 and international firms. Her experience includes commercial property investment, residential development, finance and asset management. She sits on the South East Committee for the Association of Women in Property and was its Chairman from 2018 to 2019. She is a Board Advisor for Gleensite, a proptech company using machine learning and big data for predictive analysis in the real estate market.

Paul Augarde
Paul is an award-winning placemaking consultant working with public- and private-sector clients on broad-based regeneration schemes. He specialises in socio-economic and cultural place-based strategies and projects, which support resilient mixed communities. Recently, Paul conceived and delivered Poplar Works, a fashion hub in East London, with partners London College of Fashion and the GLA; and helped set up the Mayor of London’s Creative Land Trust.