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.

Rachel Quilliam-Scott
Head of Events

Rachel joined us in 2021, with over a decade’s experience in the events’ industry. A series of senior positions in the cultural sector, including roles at the Tate, V&A and Museum of London, have all given her strong skills in customer service, business development, and end-to-end event execution with high end clients. She has a BA Joint Honours in Ancient History and Archaeology.

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 graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2011 with a degree in the History of Art and went on to gain experience of 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.

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

Mark Hone
Premises Manager

Mark first arrived at Two Temple Place in January 2022 from a background of facilities/operations management of historic buildings. He left in August 2022 and returned in January 2024. Whilst achieving a B.A. ( Hons ) in Performing Arts Mark realised he was a rubbish actor ; poor dancer and woeful musician but was rather good at organising. So began a career encompassing music, theatre and art with a sideline in social housing and business improvement districts. Notable premises Mark has worked in are The Palace Theatre ; New London Theatre ; Shaftesbury Theatre ; Hoxton Hall ; Courtauld Institute ; Dulwich Picture Gallery ; Blackheath Conservatoire and the Whitechapel Gallery.

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.

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.

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.

An-Ting Chang
Committee member

An-Ting is a concert pianist, composer, theatre director and until recently was Artistic Director of Kakilang, a recent Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation producing contemporary Chinese performing arts in the UK. She has led CAN Productions, including as co-creator of Two Temple Place collaboration Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon, director of Augmented Chinatown 2.0 (an app for AR, music and drama), Lao Can Impression (Southbank Centre), as composer/performer for Coalesce (King’s Place), Bats and Beats (Soundstate Festival, Shanghai tour), producer for Citizens of Nowhere? (Duddell’s) and pianist for LSO Eclectica (LSO St Luke’s). Her background is a unique mix of science and art with a degree in Chemistry from National Taiwan University and a MMus and PhD in performance from the Royal Academy of Music. An-Ting performs regularly as a concert pianist at national concert venues, and in 2012 founded Concert Theatre, pioneering a new hybrid genre of music and theatre, with productions on UK tour and at the National Portrait Gallery. Her albums and singles can be found on all digital platforms.

Bernard Donoghue
Committee member

Bernard Donoghue has been the Director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) since September 2011 following a career in advocacy, communications and lobbying, latterly at a senior level in the tourism and heritage sector. In May of 2017 he was appointed by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, to be the Mayor's Ambassador for Cultural Tourism and a member of the Mayor's Cultural Leadership Board. Prior to his appointment as Director of ALVA, Bernard was Head of Government and Public Affairs for VisitBritain between 1997 and 2010 and served as a Board Director of Marketing Manchester, 2001 - 2010, and Chairman of VisitManchester, 2007 - 2010. He was founder and Co-Chair of British Tourism Week. In 2012 he was appointed a Trustee of 'Kids in Museums' and became Deputy Chairman in October 2014. He is a Trustee of The Geffrye Museum of the Home in Hoxton, London, and a Trustee of The Heritage Alliance, and a member of the Cathedral Council of St Paul's Cathedral, London. He was appointed a Trustee of The Prince's Regeneration Trust's social enterprise board in 2015. Bernard is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Tourism Society (FTS), Fellow of WWF-UK, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (MCIPR) and lives in London.

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).

Darren Raymond
Committee member

Darren Raymond is the Artistic Director of Intermission Theatre, a pioneering arts-based youth mentoring programme that gives young people from London the chance to cross cultural and postcodes divides to improve their lives. An active actor as well as a director, Darren has been engaged as a contributor to new works by other writers, has had his poetry published in the Guardian, taken the lead in numerous Shakespearian and commercial tours including the title role of Othello and Prospero for the RSC’s First Encounters Tour Darren has spoken at the House of Lords on youth offending and is fast becoming one of the theatre’s most respected heads. He is an inspiring example of change and is now dedicated to inspiring the young people he works with whilst continuing to pursue his own acting, directing and writing career.

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.