Catherine is CEO of Dalcroze UK, one of the oldest music education charities in the UK, and Executive Director of Dance City, the dance development agency for North East England. She was CEO of Kielder Observatory for four years, successfully guiding the organisation through the pandemic, creating a happy, vibrant, high-profile, and high-performing organisation for sustainable growth. Prior to that, Catherine was Director of the North East Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications, building the fastest-growing space cluster in the UK. Catherine was instrumental in turning the North East Technology Park from “two buildings in a field” to a £100M pioneering science park, was Vice-Chair of the United Kingdom Science Park Association, a Board Director of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), and founded the global network, Women in IASP. Catherine acts as a mentor for Creative UK, helping creative companies scale up. Catherine is a highly experienced trustee and director, currently director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering and for iGiant, a Washington DC-based innovation accelerator, which spun out of President Obama’s White House. She served on the national evaluation panel for Strength in Places, UKRI’s £300M place-based innovation fund and, in 2024, joined the Council of the British School at Rome, a multidisciplinary research institute.