The appointments have been made to assist the museum’s plans in creative agency and media production work
Figures from the sectors of TV, tech, animation and brewing sectors are just some of the new board members at Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre after a wide-range of new appointments.
Eight professionals will join board of the museum, which said it had made the appointments in response to the UK government’s £60 million investment into the creative industries.
First of the new appointments is Zoë Birchall, who brings more than 30 years of experience in TV, film, and animation, having worked with production companies including the BBC, and most recently Aardman Animations, where she led artistic teams on Wallace and Gromit films ‘Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’.
Also appointed from the world of TV is George Dixon, who brings experience from BBC Television, where he led the scheduling teams for the corporation’s domestic channels, including the creation of BBC iPlayer. He was also Controller of Channel Management at Channel 4.
Also appointed is Marc Sands, who is currently Chief Marketing Officer for auctioneers Bonhams. The new appointment brings e 25 years’ experience from the Tate and Guardian Media Group, where he was responsible for a digital transformation.
Natasha Dickinson brings communication and marketing experience from companies and charities including Cancer Research UK and RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind). Now working at Save the Children International, she is currently leading on a global rebrand across 120 countries.
Joseph Galliano-Doig MBE is the co-founder and Director Emeritus of LGBTQ+ museum Queer Britain. Galliano-Doig has been a book and magazine editor, and was Deputy CEO for OUTstanding, a network for business leaders working to create a more equitable corporate culture. His book series, Dear Me: A Letter to my Sixteen-Year-Old Self, raised awareness – and over £120k, for charities including the Elton John Aids Foundation and Doctors Without Borders (AKA Medecins Sans Frontieres).
Robyn Orowuje-Forbes is an Associate Director with art recruitment consultancy SML | Sophie Macpherson Ltd. Orowuje-Forbes also leads initiatives with the company’s community impact, working with partners to promote greater accessibility across the art world.
Dr Andy Wood OBE joined Suffolk-based brewers Adnams in 1994 and became its Managing Director in 2006 and Chief Executive in 2010 before stepping down in December 2024. He was also awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013 and between 2014 to 2016 was HRH The Prince of Wales’s Ambassador for Responsible business in the East of England. In 2010 Andy founded and was Chairman of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, is also a non-executive director of companies operating in the retail and financial services sectors and a Governor of Norwich School.
James Elias, formerly Marketing Director for Google UK & Ireland, was most recently he ran the marketing division of Abcam, a Cambridge-based global life sciences business.
Jago Cooper, Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts said the appointments “[reflect] the museum’s plans in creative agency and media production work, and “[signal] an exciting future in store for the museum.”
“Hopefully our new board members will be in a position to help us capitalise on the government’s stated intention of investing in creative capital and also support the Centre’s exhibition programme that tackles some of the fundamental questions facing contemporary society today; such as Why Do We Take Drugs, Can the Seas Survive Us and Can We Stop Killing Each Other?”
