Our board

Kate Denby

Chair of Trustees

Executive Director at Northern Stage

Ben McKnight

Trustee

Director of Press & PR at Manchester International Festival

Cllr Dave Craker

Trustee

Councillor Hull City Council

John Meehan

Trustee

Director of Meehan Marketing & Comms

Karen Okra

Trustee

Community Support Worker

Malcolm Relph

Trustee

City Economy Manager at Hull City Council

Neil Porteus

Trustee

Finance at the Deep

Sally Christopher

Trustee

Freelance Producer

Sarah Driver

Trustee

Dean of Faculty of Arts at Hull College

David Keel

Trustee

Hull’s Digital Awards Lifetime Contribution winner, David Keel is the founder of Hull based Sonoco Trident. David is also Chair of Hull’s C4DI (Centre for Digital Innovation) where as well as helping tech business startups he leverages his experiences of rapid business growth and pivoting a traditional business into a cutting edge tech business to help local businesses to achieve similar objectives. David serves as a Governor of the Ron Dearing UTC and was a trustee of the Hull2017 Enterprises Board and a proud City of Culture Volunteer. Currently working as a consultant helping businesses to define and engineer industry disrupting reinvention.

Billie Mcloughlin

Trustee

Trish Dalby

Trustee