Trustees

Glasgow born MT (Mary Teresa) Rainey is a widely known and respected leader, thinker and entrepreneur in the UK Creative Industries and currently has a portfolio of Non-Executive roles in the private sector and the Arts.

She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Hays plc, Clearchannel Inc and Charlotte St Partners Ltd. She recently completed a six year term as a Non-Executive Director of Channel 4 Television, the latter two years as Deputy Chair. She was also a Non-Executive Director of AIM listed Pinewood Group until it was taken private in late 2015. In the past she has served as a Non-Executive Director with WH Smith plc and with STV plc.

From 2006 – 2018 she was the founding Investor and Executive Chairman of leading digital strategy agency Th_nk, which was recently sold to the U.S. digital consulting firm EPAM.

Until 2006, her main Executive career was spent in the Advertising Industry, working with premium creative agencies in the UK as a strategic planner, before going to the US as Planning Director of Chiat/Day working with Apple and other first generation Silicon Valley companies (’83-’93).

After returning to the UK at the end of the ’80s, MT founded, and was CEO, of her own agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe (’93-’06) which became highly successful and was eventually acquired by WPP, where MT remained as CEO and then Chair for a further six years, driving it to a top 5 position in the UK.

MT has also held important voluntary roles in public service, most recently as Co-Chair of the Development Board of 14-18Now, the highly acclaimed Arts commissioning organisation set up to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. She also served nine years (’08-‘17) as Vice Chair of Creative Skillset, the UK Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries (now ScreenSkills). MT is currently a member of the Glasgow School of Art Development Board.

MT is a member and former President of The Thirty Club of London, a member and former Chair of the Marketing Group of Great Britain, and a Fellow of The Marketing Society. She was recently honoured with an OBE for Services to Advertising in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Monika is an organisational and culture change expert specialising in leadership development, strategy, EDI work and executive coaching. She started her career heading up a variety of training and development roles for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She then set up her own business and built up a client base across the commercial and not for profit sectors.

During her career she has advised global film studios, broadcasters, media agencies, global luxury brands, special effects companies, independent production companies, engineering design specialists, law firms, workplace design experts, unions, universities, political parties amongst many more. As a result of an increasing focus on diversity, Monika created a separate strand to her business and launched Career Savvy Women to offer specific support to increase the numbers of women in senior roles.

Monika is a board member of Goldsmiths College, University of London and she also sits on the board of AECC, a specialist Health Sciences University based in Dorset.

Monika is a bit of a culture buff and her taste is eclectic. She aims to visit the theatre at least monthly, the cinema often weekly. She enjoys dance and music, comedy and poetry readings! She sponsors various art forms in the region such as Purbeck Film.

Don Nordberg joined the board of Lighthouse in 2018, serving on its finance subcommittee and leading the board’s working party on strategy. He also chairs the board of Milestones Trust, a major social care charity for adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. Formerly an associate professor at Bournemouth University Business School, he is author of two books on boards of directors and dozens of academic papers on corporate governance. A former journalist and executive at Reuters, he has also consulted on strategy for major corporations. Many years ago he was part of an experimental theatre in America and worked on lighting and sound at a New York repertory company. Now, like Lear near the end of Shakespeare’s play, Don is a “foolish, fond old man”, with a second doctorate, in creative writing, at the University of Exeter.

David has over thirty years’ of board-level experience in theatre, television, cinema, and hospitality. His career includes the roles of General Manager with Compass and Talawa theatre companies, Head of Business Affairs for BBC Worldwide, Operations Director at UCI cinemas and Development Director at Hall & Woodhouse. After this successful business career, and his children having completed their education, he and his wife Helen moved to Bristol to pursue his long-held dream of becoming a professional magician. He now performs as the Great Baldini. He is delighted to use his understanding of leisure and hospitality to support the Lighthouse as a director.

A trained dancer, performer and teacher, Jane was a Founding member of Dorset Dance (now Activate Performing Arts), and Director for 8 years.  In 2006 she completed a Masters in Business Administration, as a means of researching alternative business models and management practices for creative enterprise. In 2007 she became a partner, and then Director in an accountancy firm with a diverse client base.  Jane is also an occasional finance lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth, in Creative Events Management.

Caroline has held senior commercial leadership roles, setting strategy, managing operations and marketing, across retail and hospitality, first in London and then in Dorset from 2008 onwards. She has worked in both the private sector (Liberty, Laura Ashley, Gap, Langham Wine Estate) and the not-for-profit sector (National Trust) and is currently Senior Commercial Manager at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, also based in Poole.

In her role as Non-Executive Director for Dorset Food & Drink she supported the growth of local businesses and is passionate about ensuring that a broad menu of arts is accessible to all.

Since 2007, Channa Vithana works as a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Arts University Bournemouth and previously taught at University of Greenwich for eight years. Channa’s association with Lighthouse goes back to 2011 with a series of annual architecture exhibitions held in the main gallery featuring architectural student work connected to the local area of Poole. As part of his research and knowledge transfer work, Channa also has good connections with local stakeholders, inclusive of registered charities. Channa is very pleased to be invited to work and contribute as a trustee to Lighthouse, an important cultural venue that he has known and connected with since the mid 1980s.

Ali is Executive Director of Woolwich Works. Passionate about making the arts as accessible to all, she has over a decade’s experience of running events and commercial operations within arts organisations. After managing the country wide events programme for the Arts Marketing Association, she moved to London to take an Events Manager role at The Whitechapel Gallery, before going on to join The Southbank Centre as a commercial events manager and latterly becoming Head of Commercial Events. In her role at Woolwich Works, she leads on commercial hires and artistic rentals, bars and catering, marketing, fundraising, PR, event operations and ticketing, as well as working on other elements of the trust such as programming, planning and partnerships. Outside of work she is likely to be found running or paddle-boarding along the south-west coastline, close to her home in Devon.

Tony has over 25 years experience operating in senior Technology leadership roles. He is a highly commercial technologist who has delivered major technology and digital transformation across a range of organisations in the Retail, Media and Publishing sectors.

Tony is currently Chief Technology Officer at the Copyright Licensing Agency, a Not for Profit collective management organisation that works on behalf of authors, publishers and visual artists. In this role, Tony is responsible for all aspects of the Technology and Operations groups, ensuring the delivery of outstanding customer-centric digital and operational solutions. Prior to joining CLA, Tony spent 11 years at 20th Century Fox. As Senior Vice President, International IT, he oversaw the digital transformation of Fox’s international sales, marketing and distribution businesses.

In his spare time, Tony enjoys sports and the arts. He has a particular passion for live music and is currently catching up on two years of missed gigs.