The Holburne Museum (registered charity number 310288) is governed by a sole Trustee which is The Holburne Museum Trust Company, a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales (company number 04104120). The Directors of the Holburne Museum Trust Company are:
Governance
Edward Bayntun-Coward DL (Chairman)
Owner of George Bayntun, the world-famous antiquarian book bindery and booksellers, Edward previously worked for Maggs Bros. Ltd, London.
In 2004 he was appointed a Trustee and later became Chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust for ten years.
Edward is currently a Trustee of the American Museum & Gardens and Focus Counselling.
He served as High Sheriff of Somerset from 2016 – 2017 and is a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset.
Francesca Beauman (Vice Chair)
Francesca Beauman runs publishing company Persephone Books. Before that, she wrote seven books, including a history of the pineapple and a history of personal ads, as well as wrote and presented television shows for BBC1 and Channel 4. Francesca is originally from London, then spent a decade in Los Angeles, but now lives in Bath.
Angela Gillibrand (Hon. Treasurer & Company Secretary)
After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, Angela worked as an investment analyst in the City before gaining an MBA at INSEAD, the International Business School in France. After working as a finance specialist for Burmah Oil, Angela led the finance team that delivered one of the first PFI’s for the Academic Contract with Cranfield University at is now the Defence Academy.
Since 2003 Angela has combined family property and farming interests with a portfolio of non-executive roles. Currently she is Vice-Chair of the Holborn Estate Charity and a non-executive director of the Rethink Trust Corporation, (a subsidiary of Rethink Mental Illness).
Mark Astaire
Mark worked in investment banking for more than 35 years, holding senior positions at a number of leading investment banks including Bank of America and ABN Amro. Most recently, he was Chairman of Corporate Broking and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays.
He now has a variety of roles including being a member of the Sky News Board and a non-executive director of Cavendish Financial PLC. He is the founder of the Astaire Art Prize in association with the Edinburgh College of Art. Mark graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 with a degree in politics.
Lesley Exley
An experienced CEO, Trustee, Advisor and Non Executive Director in the Retail, Luxury, Digital and Arts and Culture sectors.
Having held Board Director roles at Selfridges; Tencel Courtaulds/Akzo Nobel and Waterfords Wedgewood, has an in depth knowledge of branding, marketing and communication.
An experienced fundraiser over 30 years, successfully increasing revenues in support of the British Red Cross, The Patten Makers and the Retail Trust.
Sandra Forbes
Sandra Forbes is a senior banking and corporate lawyer having been a partner at national law firm Burges Salmon LLP for 18 years until 2014. Her roles at Burges Salmon included serving as Head of the Corporate and Financial Institutions Department. Sandra moved from Burges Salmon LLP to become the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of National Express Group plc. More recently Sandra has been the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Rotork plc.
Sandra also served as Deputy Chair of Governors at the University of the West of England having been a Governor at UWE from 2011 – 2019.
Jeremy Garfield-Davies
Jeremy has 30 years experience in the international art market. He advises historic houses, private collections and leading museums in Asia, Britain and USA.
Jeremy graduated from Reading University where he read Art History and Architectural History. He is a post graduate of Christie’s and a returning Attingham scholar.
He is the founder and Chief Executive of Duxbury Advisory Ltd advising existing clients of leading museums, historic houses and private collections.
Sukie Hemming
Sukie has many years’ experience in the arts and heritage sectors, principally with the National Trust and the British Museum.
Sukie is also a Trustee of Chelsea Physic Garden.
Caro Howell MBE
Caro is Director General of Imperial War Museums.
Formerly, Caro was Director of the Foundling Museum, London, the Head of Education and Public Events at the Whitechapel Gallery and part of the Tate Modern set up team 1997-2003.
Caro is currently the Co-chair of Women Leaders in Museums Network. As well as being an advisor for Two Temple Place and The Charterhouse in London, Caro is also a Mentor for Arts Emergency.
Steven Hyde
With over 25 years of experience in the public-facing cultural sector, Steve has contributed to some of the most important cultural capital projects of the last fifteen years. He has been the V&A’s Head of Estate for the past 12 years, responsible for maintaining, conserving and developing the estate of the world’s leading museum of art and design.
During this time, Steve has overseen the expansion of the V&A into Scotland in Dundee, and the construction of two new facilities in East London – the V&A East museum in the Olympic Park and the nearby Collection Research Centre, to ensure the new facilities provide the best experience for the needs of the 21st Century.
Lydia Lee
Lydia is an experienced leader in the cultural, heritage, environmental and higher education sectors. Most recently she was Fundraising Director at the National Trust, leading a major step-change in fundraised income generation. Prior appointments include Director of Development at the Science Museum Group and roles at London Business School and Southbank Centre, delivering the £111 million transformation of the Royal Festival Hall.
In a non-Executive capacity, Lydia has held Trustee and Advisory roles with War Child UK and London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT).
Lydia studied Modern History at UCL, completed a range of Executive leadership programmes at London Business School and has a long-standing personal interest in music. Having grown up and been educated close to Bath, Lydia was delighted to return with her young family in 2020.
Sharanjit Leyl
Sharanjit has spent twenty five in broadcasting, including eighteen years with BBC World News, covering business, finance and politics.
Prior to joining the BBC in 2003, Sharanjit worked for Bloomberg TV in Tokyo. She now regularly moderates high-level debates for the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and other institutions while advising companies and educational institutions on media strategy.
Sharanjit is currently a Trustee at the Fashion Museum, Bath and The Necessary Stage in Singapore, and the newly appointed Chancellor of Bath Spa University.
Mervyn Metcalf
Mervyn was born in Zimbabwe and moved to the UK in 1979. As an alumnus of London School of Economics Mervyn has both a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Economics. He has over 30 years of investment banking experience, and co-founded Dean Street Advisers, a leading independent M&A advisory boutique in 2012.
Mervyn is a Trustee to the board of The Discerning Eye, an educational charity and is also a trustee of BBC Media Action, one of only two BBC charities. Mervyn’s opinions on market trends are often quoted in leading publications. In addition, Mervyn is an avid collector of contemporary art, with a particular focus on portraiture.
Lynda Nead FBA
Lynda is Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She is also a fellow of the British Academy; Academia Europea; Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Art History.
Lynda is the author of several books on the history of British art including The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c.1900 (Yale, 2007); Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth- Century London (Yale, 2000) and The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain (Yale, 2017).
Lynda has formerly served on several boards and councils of museums and art galleries including the V&A (until 2022) and Campaign for the Arts.
Andy Salmon (nominated by Bath Spa University)
Andy’s original background was philosophy and literature, particularly modern poetry. He has had a wide ranging academic career thereafter on the interface between education and the Creative Industries, including being a founder member of the National Skills Academy for the Performing Arts and a multiple collaborator with Universities in North America, China, Africa and throughout Europe and Scandinavia. Latterly he has become increasingly interested in trans-disciplinary creative application in University and industry, including the interrelationship between technology and experiences of human creativity in all spheres beyond tech. Formerly in Cambridge where he had been leading on a large EU project within ‘serious games’ applications, Andy is delighted to now be Pro Vice Chancellor for External Affairs for Bath Spa University.
Chris Stephens
Chris has been Director of the Holburne Museum since July 2017. Before that he worked at Tate in London for twenty-one years, for much of that time as Head of Displays at Tate Britain and Lead Curator of Modern British Art. His numerous exhibitions include some of the Tate’s most successful shows, such as ‘Barbara Hepworth: Centenary’ at Tate St Ives in 2003 and, in London, ‘Francis Bacon’ (2008), ‘Henry Moore’ (2010), ‘Picasso and British Art’ (2012) and ‘David Hockney’ (2017). As a leading expert on modern British art, he has published extensively and his book – St Ives The Art and the Artists was published in 2018.
Rohan Surana (nominated by University of Bath)
Rohan studied Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD, the International Business School in France.
In his professional life, Rohan has worked internationally in strategic and operational roles across Management Consulting (Deloitte), Banking (HSBC) and Financial technology (Revolut).
Rohan relocated to Bath in October 2021 to work for the University of Bath as Director of Operations for School of Management.
Rohan is a member of the Council of the British School at Rome. He lives in Bath with his wife and a young son. In his spare time he enjoys cricket, running and tennis.