Trustees

Cherry-Anne has been a Trustee since 2017, previously working within the advertising and marketing industry on both client and agency sides, for national and international brands, across the disciplines of integrated communication, and customer relationship management. She has also been a state school governor, been involved in a major fundraising appeal for the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, and recently was Chair of The Arts Society Guildford (formerly NADFAS) where she helped fund sponsorship of The Lightbox Art in Mind programme. 

Chris Lacey has been involved with the Lightbox Gallery since 2005, joining as a Trustee in July 2014. As Chief Executive at the William Lacey Group, the company builds new homes for sale and for Housing Associations and has recently collected national awards for designing and building new homes that incorporate the best low carbon initiative, as well as the coveted House builder of the Year.

John has been involved with the Lightbox since its beginning and has been a trustee for the last six years. Most of his working life has been in publishing, having launched two companies of his own, been Deputy CEO of Reed Business Publishing and Director of Editions Techniques Paris and non Executive Director of three other publishing companies. He has been a Chair of Governors of a State School and Deputy Chair of an NHS Trust. He has been a Trustee for several charities and is currently Chair of The Friends of Chichester Cathedral.

Richard has been a Trustee since 2018 and enjoyed helping the local population of Woking as a family dentist for over thirty years before retiring. He has always been involved in the community, initially as a member of Round Table, then Rotary, being Chairman and President of each respectively.

Richard was also a member of the local custody visitor team and a local borough councillor.

Keen on keeping fit, he completed the London Marathon and climbed Kilimanjaro for charity. 

Richard has been a Trustees since 2019. He grew up in Ashtead in Surrey and studied Applied Physics and Astronomy at University College London. He trained as a Chartered Accountant with Roberts McLennan in Woking and lived in Horsell. Once Qualified he moved to Riches and Company and became a Partner in 1998. Riches and Company is a small firm of Chartered Accountants now based in Cobham, Surrey. In his professional career, Richard has dealt with clients from diverse business sectors including charities and has had clients from as far afield as Dubai and Australia. Richard became a trustee of The Lightbox in October 2019 and has enjoyed the experience and offering invaluable financial advice. 

Barry has been a Trustee since 2020. Over the last forty years, he has worked for some of the worlds leading advertising agencies on well-known campaigns for a plethora of much-loved brands. Along with three friends he founded Krow Communications in 2005 and built it into a top 20 UK agency before selling the business to the Mission Group in 2018.

Barry is an executive director of the holding company and is also on the board of US tech business Webalo. In his spare time, Barry is a self-confessed cookery nut, music nerd and obsessional golfer.

Nathalie has been on a Trustees since 2020. She left her career in the city, where she held senior roles at KPMG and RBS, to follow her passion and apply her over twenty years of experience in the arts sector. 

She is the managing director of Constella OperaBallet and is completing the Executive Masters for Cultural Leadership programme at the Royal Academy of Arts and the University of Maastricht. Nathalie was a trustee and chair of the audit and risk committee of the Bank Workers Charity for 9 years.

Andy has been a Trustee since 2020, spending thirty years beforehand working in finance as an investment banker.  He has focused on mergers and acquisitions and, while advising a wide variety of companies, he has also held senior management positions at Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Jefferies.

As a keen and frequent visitor to galleries, he believes strongly in the positive impact experiencing the visual arts can have on people's lives and wellbeing. Andy draws and paints but regards himself very much as a work-in-progress.