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Our Team

We strive for greater equality, diversity and inclusion in every aspect of what we do - the audiences we reach, the artistic programme we present, and in our team of staff and trustees.

Meet our dedicated and talented team who make our work possible and to learn more about our recruitment objectives, please read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity action plan.

→ If you have a general enquiry, please get in touch by phone on +44 (0)151 707 4444 or email info@fact.co.uk

Executive Team

Nicola Triscott, Chief Executive/Director

Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programme

James Hammond, Head of Business and Operations

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Maitreyi Maheshwari

Director's Office & HR Team

Chris Kinsella, Executive Assistant & HR Admin

→ For recruitment enquiries, please email recruitment@fact.co.uk

Programme Team

Charlotte Horn, Senior Exhibitions Producer

Mark Murphy, Technical Manager

Nina Newbold, Exhibitions Producer

Lewis Eyles, Film and Events Officer

Alex MacDonald, Technician

Lesley Taker, Studio/Lab Manager

Josiah Worth, Studio/Lab Producer (Artist Development)

Mali Draper, Studio/Lab Producer (Technical) 

Martyna Puciato, Curatorial Assistant

Lucía Arias, Learning Manager

Neil Winterburn, Learning Technologist

Rachel Mason, Learning Producer

Ashleigh Sands, Learning Facilitator

→ For exhibition or residency enquiries, please email programme@fact.co.uk

→ For schools or learning programme enquiries, please email learning@fact.co.uk

→ For enquiries about hiring our spaces or our Community Cinema programme, please email events@fact.co.uk

Visitor Services Team

Joan Burnett, Visitor Services Manager

Washington Buckley, Visitor Services Mediator

Lauren Mcsharry, Gallery Mediator

Katie Pinch, Gallery Mediator

Danny Pye, Gallery Mediator

→ For visitor services, please email info@fact.co.uk

Casual Gallery and Events Team

Charlie Dean, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Chloe Witchell-Chibber, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Day Mattar, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Jacob Riley, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Joseph Dorrian, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Kezia Thomas-Mellor, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Will Toner, Gallery & Event Team Casual

Marketing & Communications Team

Jess Fairclough, Head of Marketing & Communications

Leah Binns, Digital Content & Marketing Officer

Heláena Williamson, Communications & Press Officer

Carl Davies, Video Production Manager

Dylan Fox, Marketing & Communications Assistant

→ For press or media enquiries, please email press@fact.co.uk

→ For enquiries about our Video Production services, please email carl.davies@fact.co.uk

Development Team

Matthew Watters, Head of Development

→ For development or donation enquiries, please email development@fact.co.uk

Building Operations Team

Patrick Mussard, Operations Manager

Peter Brown, Operations Coordinator

Alistair Savage, Security Officer

Julie Britto, Cleaning Supervisor

Diane Kirby, Cleaning Operative

Leslie Green, Cleaning Operative

Finance

Paula Robinson, Finance Manager

Jenielyn Aldous, Finance Administrator

Trustees

Katie Moffat is currently Director of Sector Strategy at digital agency Substrakt. Katie's role is focused on strategic consultancy projects that support cultural organisations with their digital transformation. An experienced digital strategist, consultant and trainer, specialising in the arts and not for profit sector, Katie helps organisations to use digital technologies to reach, grow and diversify their audiences. She also has expertise in skills assessment and development. Katie has previously served as a Board Trustee, and Vice Chair, of Abandon Normal Devices. She is a contributing author to the Manual of Digital Museum Planning published by Rowman & Littlefield and a regular speaker at events and conferences. Katie joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2024, as Chair of the Board.

Sheralee Lockhart has 20 years’ experience of arts and cultural sector leadership roles. As Director of Business and Operations at Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, Sheralee’s ongoing focus is reshaping and rebuilding the organisation. Having held leadership roles in a range of arts and cultural organisations: The Science Museum Group, Opera North, Leeds Playhouse, Square Chapel Arts Centre and Z-Arts, Sheralee is committed to increasing diverse representation across the arts and removing barriers. Sheralee joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2019, now acting as Vice Chair.

Baff Akoto, is an award-winning director and artist whose work spans episodic drama, cinema, installation, photography, digital XR technology, performance, painting and printmaking. In 2022 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the 13th Bamako Biennial of African Photography and the Main Prize at the Aesthetica Art Prize for his moving image work LEAVE THE EDGES. Akoto also received the inaugural CHANEL Culture Fund x British Film Institute award for Creative Audacity - decided by a jury including Tilda Swinton and Edward Enninful. A key aspect of Baff's practice explores how emerging technology and digital mediums can enfranchise communities and non-traditional art audiences while avoiding the same prejudices, exclusions and inequalities which arose from our industrial and colonial eras. Baff joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2025.

Ruth Catlow is an artist, curator and recovering web utopian. As co-founding co-director of Furtherfield, London’s longest-running organisation for art, technology and eco-social change, she curates and creates collaborative, playful and emancipatory artworks to engage people across silos around emerging technologies and the wicked problems they give rise to or intensify. She is co-editor of Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain (2017), and Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts (2022), and leads artistic research at Furtherfield's Decentralised Arts Lab DECAL experimenting with blockchain and web 3.0 technologies for fairer, more dynamic and connected cultural ecologies and economies. Catlow is also Co-PI at the Blockchain Lab at the Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform. Ruth joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.

Simon Drysdale has worked in the culture sector, in both not-for-profit and commercial organisations, for most of his career. His experience spans contemporary dance, classical music, traditional music and cinema. For fourteen years he ran his own London-based marketing business, working with over 300 arts clients. More recently he was Interim CEO at Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle leading a major turnaround of the charity. Simon is currently Interim CEO at Regional Screen Scotland where his focus has been on stability, growth, and leading on a major capital project. Simon is an MBA and has served on boards including the Arts Marketing Association and the European dance platform Aerowaves. He has a keen interest in both visual and performing arts and is an avid cinema-goer. Simon joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2025.

Maleka Egeonu-Roby is a Junior Project Manager on the race equality programme at Liverpool City Regions combined authority, where she works on exciting national arts exhibitions, such as "The World Reimagined." Born and bred in L8, Maleka helped shape Liverpool’s cultural landscape from a young age, when joining the young people’s board that delivered the successful 2008 Capital of Culture bid to Downing Street. Maleka is also a founding member of the Liverpool African Caribbean Grassroots initiative formally and locally known as the Merseyside Caribbean Centre. Passionate about having young, black and ethnically diverse perspectives heard in majority white spaces, Maleka promotes conversations about the disparities that ethnically diverse communities face in a move towards a more equitable future. A registered social worker, Maleka has experience in adult safeguarding and youth advocacy services. Maleka joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022.

Bea Freeman is an independent documentary Producer/Director, with 25 years experience in the media industry, involving commissions from the BBC, Channel 4, National and International Film Festival and former North West Vision (now Creative England). Having documented the Liverpool Black community since the early eighties, Bea was commissioned to produce a film for Channel 4 based on the 1981 Liverpool riots, titled ‘They Haven't Done Nothing.’ Bea was selected to attend the prestigious European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs workshops in Germany, Ireland, Italy and Sweden and was part of the British Delegation at the Hong Kong Macau North West Film Trade Market. Bea is a member of the British Film Institute Cultural Diversity Committee.

Bea has won awards for her work at the Chicago Film Festival and her work has been selected and screened at the Berlin Film Festival and London Film Festival. Bea has sat on the judges panel for the USA Women’s International Film Festival and the European Pan African Film Festival at anne. Most recently Bea was awarded the Liverpool City Region Cultural Creative Judges Award 2022. Bea joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2022

Tom Harris, is currently Senior Manager of Transaction Advisory Services at PWC. Tom's role focuses on supporting private business, private equity and PLCs with support on a range of M&A transactions. Tom has a wealth of financial services expertise and is enthusiastic to join the Board at FACT to be able to give back to a creative organisation in the heart of a city close to his heart. Tom joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2024.
 

Catrina Hewitson, is a  consultant, facilitator and team coach.  She has global, cross-sectoral experience in leadership and organisational development. Her work includes strategy development and strategic implementation, innovative leadership programmes and interventions, helping teams work towards their highest potential and change management. Catrina believes that leaders benefit from accessing the richest sources of inspiration, best practice and ideas. She draws from history, philosophy, business, art, music and contemporary culture in her approach to development. Her first book “The Neglected Acts of Leadership (and how music can help you rediscover them)” will be published in 2025. Catrina loves helping people find their confidence, voice, courage and purpose. An experienced non-executive, she has held board roles in heritage, housing and arts organisations. Catrina joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2025.

Alison Lacy started her career owning galleries and dealing in art across Europe after graduating with an Art History degree. However, a fascination for team dynamics and performance led her to join a training consultancy focused on equipping leaders to be more effective. This was followed by roles with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Bentley Motors. In 2020, Avalanche Studios Group approached Alison to help build their first studio presence in the UK. Alison established the brand new studio in the centre of Liverpool and, in the process, became an active member and advocate of the wider Liverpool games community. Alison co-chairs the skills organisation GameChangers and is a board member of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority's Digital & Creative Cluster Board.

Lisa Middleton is Head of Marketing & Brand at National Museums Liverpool, having joined the organisation in 2015.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lisa has a wealth of experience in marketing, brand and communications roles, and is passionate about utilising tech in arts to create memorable experiences for customers, and supporting opportunities for people taking unconventional routes into creative careers. Lisa re-joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2024.

Paul Moore, is Director of Production and Building Operations for Aviva Studios, home of Factory International and Manchester International Festival. Paul has a long career in physical production delivery, initially in Theatre, and now multi-artform and interdisciplinary practice, working with artists at all stages of their careers. Paul is passionate about building the long term community relationships and opportunities that not-for-profit cultural venues have to offer, and has delivered a number of capital projects to enable venues to support diverse artists, initially for Curve Theatre, Leicester and most recently culminating in the opening and mobilisation into Aviva Studios. Paul is committed to developing the skills and opportunities available for technicians at all stages of their careers, and is proud to have created an in-house Technical Trainer role at Aviva Studios to support emerging technicians and bring in new talent to the sector from backgrounds less represented on our stages. Paul joined the Board of Trustees at FACT Liverpool in 2025.