Paddy Altern
Director of Two Temple Place

Paddy Altern joined in the role of Director in February 2024, with the aim of further developing the organisation’s successful programmes. Paddy has 25 years of experience in advisory roles in finance and industry, and has been a Trustee for a British Academy charity. He has also previously developed historical and archival research for Two Temple Place. He holds MAs in both History and Archaeology.

Doron Kristal
Finance Director

Doron joined us in 2022, with over 20 years’ experience in the charity sector. Prior to this, he spent the formative part of his career working in hotel management and the advertising industry. He has held senior finance and operations positions for the national Jeans for Genes Campaign, Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity, and various other organisations from local grass roots to national UK-wide appeals.

Rebecca Hone
Head of Culture & Community

Rebecca joined Two Temple Place in July 2016, after running a small public art gallery, Mascalls Gallery, in Paddock Wood, Kent. She has a degree in the History of Art, and experience working within the arts and cultural sector from a variety of galleries and arts organisations throughout Sussex, Kent and London, including the De La Warr Pavilion, Jerwood Gallery, the Public Catalogue Foundation (now ArtUK) and Culture24

Rebecca Kobus
Head of Events and Commercial

Rebecca joined Two Temple Place as Head of Events and Commercial in February 2025 bringing with her over twenty years’ experience in event planning and venue management. Before joining the team, she ran her own events company, Rebecca K. Events for the past eight years. Her knowledge of working in venues in the arts, heritage, and cultural sectors is wide; from senior event roles at TATE Modern & TATE Britain and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C to planning events at the Design Museum, St. Martins in the Field and many other unique venues. Passionate about creating meaningful and stylish experiences, Rebecca is excited to bring her commercial insight, collaborative spirit, and creativity to the events at Two Temple Place.

Shanice Webber
Deputy Head of Events

Shanice has worked in the events industry since 2018, with experience across a wide range of venues including Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, the British Museum and Battersea Arts Centre, as well as hotels, members’ clubs, and charitable organisations. She specialises in weddings and immersive events, creating experiences that are designed to leave a lasting impression. With a degree in Drama, Theatre & Performance from Roehampton University, Shanice brings creativity and storytelling into every project. At Two Temple Place, Shanice especially enjoys hosting events in the library, thanks to its elegance, versatility, and the intriguing secret door.

Tim Hillyer
General Manager of the Bulldog Trust

Tim joined in August 2018 following nine years in a comparable role at a similar sized charity. He is a qualified Management Accountant (FCMA) and worked previously as Finance Director and Operations Director in the retail sector, print media and sport. He is currently an elected member of the supervisory board of a League One football club. finance@bulldogtrust.org

Austeja Gudziunaite
Premises Manager

Austeja joined Two Temple Place in the winter of 2024, bringing cultural and practical expertise honed over seven years at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she led the collection installation for the reopening of the Young V&A galleries. Alongside her museum career, she has cultivated a creative perspective through her work as a freelance photographer. Her extensive experience as a Museum Technician has equipped her with strong practical skills, resource management, and problem-solving abilities, all of which support her role in preserving and enhancing the historic character of Two Temple Place.

Poppy Parry
Community & Education Coordinator

Poppy joined Two Temple Place in April 2025. She is an artist and arts educator with twelve years’ experience working for cultural organisations and charities across London, including the Serpentine Gallery, the Design Museum and Tate. Deeply passionate about creativity, access, and inclusion, she specialises in designing and delivering creative learning programmes for families, schools, and community audiences.

Gabriella Sotiriou
Exhibition Coordinator

Gabriella joined us in autumn 2022 from an executive search enterprise in the City of London where she focused on international law firms. She writes for a number of publications and volunteers with a charity that provides disadvantaged young people with mentorships and scholarships in creative industries. Gabriella graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2021 with an MA in History of Art.

Alexa King
Visitor Services Coordinator

Alexa joined us as Visitor Services Coordinator in August 2024, after working with us as a Duty Manager on the spring exhibition. They previously worked in visitor facing and team management roles across the cultural sector in London and New York, and as a freelance archivist. Alexa graduated from SOAS University of London with an MA in History and Arabic in 2023.

Rita Hussain
Education Coordinator (Part-time)

Rita has a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature and has graduated UCL with an MA in Publishing in 2016. She is a practicing artist mainly working with acrylics and volunteers with a charity where she runs art sessions in various care homes in London. Rita previously worked with Two Temple Place in 2024 alongside our exhibition The Glass Heart. We are delighted to welcome her back to support the coordinator of our schools programme.

Alice Bygate
Events Coordinator

Alice joined the events team in May 2023 after three seasons as our exhibitions' Duty Manager. Prior to working with us she gained several years’ experience across the arts and heritage sectors. She graduated with an MA Honours in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, studied History of Art in Florence and was a ball girl at Wimbledon.

Caro Howell
Committee member

Caro Howell has been Director General at Imperial War Museums since May 2023. Previously she was Director of the Foundling Museum from 2011-23, and before that Head of Education & Public Events at the Whitechapel Gallery where she oversaw the construction and programming of major new education spaces and project galleries as part of the Gallery’s expansion, including a series of artists’ commissions and residencies. She was ten years at Tate, joining Tate Modern’s set-up team in 1997 where she formulated its access and audience development strategy, and developed Raw Canvas, London’s first peer-led museum programme for 15-23 year olds. She has developed a number of award-winning resources for disabled people including two for Tate: i-Map (2002), the UK’s first online art resource for blind and partially sighted people, which received a BAFTA, and i-Map: The Everyday Transformed (2006) which received a Jodi Award. Caro sits on the Charterhouse Design Advisory Group, was a member of Art on the Underground’s Advisory Group (2006-2011) and was a trustee of the experimental theatre company Shunt (1998- 2010). She has an MA, History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London (1994) and a BA, Theatre Studies from Warwick University (1988).

Kathleen Soriano
Committee member

Kathleen Soriano began her career at the Royal Academy of Arts 30 years ago. In 1989 she joined the National Portrait Gallery, where as Head of Exhibitions & Collections she was responsible for national and international programmes and oversaw some of its most successful exhibitions including shows on Mario Testino, Henri Cartier Bresson, Annie Leibovitz and Helmut Newton. January 2009 saw her appointed to Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy where she programmed and developed projects such as Bronze, Anselm Kiefer, Van Gogh and Degas. Since April 2014 she has been working independently providing arts and culture consultancy including curating, writing, lecturing and broadcasting. Kathleen was appointed Chair of the Liverpool Biennial in 2016, is a National Trust Specialist Advisor and holds the position of Creative Director of the Museo Sa Bassa Blanca, Mallorca.

Martin Caiger-Smith
Former Chair of Advisory Board, 2011 - 2021

Two Temple Place remains indebted to the vital support of Martin Caiger-Smith, who Chaired the Board from 2011-2021 and whose input, advice and wisdom have been invaluable to the development of the exhibition programme.