Katherine came late to the technology sector having spent the first 30 years of her career working in the cultural sector as an artist, arts director and senior executive. Her move into technologies was prompted by her frustration at the difficulties those in the cultural sector faced when trying to fully exploit the technologies that were transforming how the rest of the world was communicating. Addressing these difficulties is why Flo-culture exists.

Katherine has extensive experience working in the cultural sector as a senior executive and board member. Her previous jobs include: Director, Centre for Creativity & Learning, University of Sunderland; Chief Executive, National Glass Centre; Programme Director, Arts Council England; Head of Arts Development and Public Art Officer, Sunderland City Council.

She qualified from Glasgow School of Art in 1987 before completing an MA in Fine Art at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, USA in 1989. I was awarded an MBA by The Open University in 2002 and received a NESTA International Cultural Leadership Fellowship Award in 2006. In 2015 she was appointed as Fellow of the RSA for her work using technology to increase access and engagement in the arts and heritage sector.

Katherine has held numerous non-executive positions in organisations across the UK including Chair of Forma Arts & Media and board member for Tyne & Wear Area Tourism Partnership and Northern Cultural Skills Partnership. I was also a Special Advisor and Committee Member for the Scottish Arts Council between 2004 and 2007.

Depending on the client’s needs Tim gets involved in researching specific places and objects, writing scripts and producing both single voice and, more dramatic, multiple voice audio recordings. These are then combined with relevant images to create a compelling content item for inclusion in the clients app. He can also help devise audience engagement strategies and plans that can really help drive significant improvements in the client’s visitor experience offer.

‘We live in a time with so many different ways to breathe life into the hidden stories of people and place. My role is to research, sift and script, to find evocative ways to bring those stories to life.’ Tim Crump, 2017

Tim has a have a deep knowledge of the heritage sector having worked as an archaeologist in Iraq, Turkey and Jordan, for English Heritage on historic monuments, for Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit and Leicestershire Museums on urban excavations.

In addition, Tim worked for the National Trust as a regional marketing/communications manager for 18 years covering all aspects of public affairs including marketing and PR, interpretation, education and events organisation.

Tim now runs Wildlight, a heritage interpretation/ communications company using digital and traditional media to bring alive the stories of the past, and is a Flo-culture Associate.

Areas of expertise

• Heritage Interpretation
• Project co-ordination and design
• Visitor Centre and Exhibition Design
• Marketing and Communications
• Research and Audience Consultation
• Scripting and copywriting
• Film, sound and interactive design

Qualifications

• 2014 Northumbria University BA Interactive Media Design
• 2014 Teesside University Digital City Fellowship
• 1980 Durham University BA Archaeology

Tim is a Full Member of the Association for Heritage Interpretation.

He designs and builds all our databases, process systems and user interfaces, and cares for Bertina and Bert, our servers based in Paris.

André is curious and passionate about the potential of technologies to enhance our lives. He has a strong track record finding creative solutions to the most intractable problems, and never gets flustered.

From a young age André interest was always around technology and innovation. He had his first computer at the age of 14 from an office outlet sell and used it to create budgets/invoices for his father construction company. He was also the first person to get a gaming console where he lived and from earlier time he was the person to go to talk about technology and computers.

André went to the University of Beira Interior to get his degree in Computer Engineering and Msc in Network and Multimedia. He joined to tech groups while in the university, NetGNA which have IoT, e-Health and Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing as research areas, and the Network and Multimedia Computing Group where he obtained a scholorship to research and develop a way of identifying P2P (peer to peer) app traffic within encrypted connections.

André has expertise working across a range of app and database platforms, including Java, C/C++, Oracle/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra, Android, iOS and Windows Phone. He has specific experience in creating apps that work with location, Bluetooth, NFC, webservices, Social network APIs, AR (augmented reality) and multimedia streaming. He is also our DevOps person that manages our entire IT infrastructure from local machines to our remote servers.

Stewart works part time for Flo-culture and is a company directer and investor. He is also Director of Marketing, America’s for Sirtex Medical, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of market expansion strategies for SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres, Selective Internal Radiation Therapy, in North and South America.

He has significant executive management experience in relation to strategic planning, market education, market research, pricing structures and sales strategies, digital and traditional communications and public relations. He applies his knowledge and skills in all these areas to direct and inform the strategic direction and operation delivery of Flo-culture.

Dave has 28 years’ experience within software development covering a multitude of sectors and applications. He is the founder of digital think-tank Binary Asylum and is contracted to work with large public and private sector organisations to deliver solutions to complex digital challenges. Dave also works with VC funds to help evaluate the digital elements within potential investment opportunities.