3 Trustees reappointed to the Horniman Museum Board

Caroline Cole, Surojit Ghosh, and Nico Iacuzzi have been reappointed by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as Trustees of the Horniman Museum for four years from 7 July 2020 to 6 July 2024. The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England.

The museum was founded in 1901 by Frederick John Horniman who had inherited his father's Horniman's Tea business, which by 1891 had become the world's biggest tea trading business. The cash from the business allowed Horniman to indulge his lifelong passion for collecting, and which after travelling extensively had some 30,000 items in his various collections, covering natural history, cultural artefacts and musical instruments. In 1911, an additional building to the west of the main building, originally containing a lecture hall and library, was donated by Frederick Horniman's son Emslie Horniman. This was also designed by Townsend. A new extension, opened in 2002, was designed by Allies and Morrison. Today, the Horniman Museum has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments, and is known for its large collection of taxidermied animals.

About the Trustees

Caroline Cole

Caroline Cole read architecture at the University of Cambridge and during her professional life has worked both as a design consultant and as a client, commissioning design professionals for the built environment. She is Founder of Colander Associates, a business that has advised many of the UK’s most acclaimed architectural and engineering practices, and works with building owners, developers and government agencies, helping to formulate their approach to architecture.

Caroline regularly publishes articles and speaks at conferences to promote good design to clients, and good business to the professions. She is committed to integrated design and gender diversity, establishing Equilibrium Network, to promote gender diversity within the built environment. She also sits on the Steering Group of the climate emergency network, Architects Declare.

She is Chair of the Industry Advisors to IDBE at the University of Cambridge; Trustee of the Ove Arup Foundation; Chair of SPACE Studios; Honorary Fellow of the RIBA; a Professor at IE University, Madrid; Fellow of the RSA, and sits on the Design Review Panel for HS2. She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects and has received the Freedom of the City of London.

In her spare time, she is a ceramicist.

Surojit Ghosh

Surojit Ghosh has a background in finance and is currently a Senior Advisor for CQS Fund Management. He has previously worked for organisations including Credit Suisse and CS First Boston. Surojit is a Governor for Dulwich College (independent school) and a Non-Executive Director for Dulwich College Management International.

Nico Iacuzzi

Nico is an investment professional with considerable experience in fund management, structured finance, and strategy consulting. He is currently an Investment Director at Inter Fund Management SA, the independent investment arm of a large European corporate, where he is responsible for sourcing, executing and managing private equity investments on a global basis. He was previously a Managing Director at Change Capital Partners, a private equity fund focused on consumer and retail investments in Europe. Prior to this, Nico worked in the Leveraged Finance team at JP Morgan and the Strategy and Operations group at Deloitte. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School, Nico lives with his wife and three sons in Dulwich.