Bridget Sawyers is the Chief Executive leading on external advocacy for the organisation and members. She is a qualified architect and urban designer and previously ran a cultural regeneration consultancy, clients included: the Homes and Communities Agency; Coventry City Council; Arts Council England; SEEDA; SMC Alsop; The Building Exploratory; Scottish Arts Council; Yorkshire Forward and she was Secretariat to the London  Development Agency’s International Design Committee on behalf of the Architecture Foundation.  Bridget was Head of Regions at CABE and prior to that Senior Architect at Arts Council England assessing quality of design and construction for arts capital projects. She is a member of the South East Design Panel and Wakefield Design Review Panels; DC CABE's Bishop Advisory Group; Civic Trust Award's National Panel; London Festival of Architecture 2012 Steering Group; and BD's Architect of the Year Jury 2011.

Louise Downham is Head of Development and Communications. She publicises the network's activity and leads on outward facing events, fundraising and support for the network members. Louise has worked with cultural organisations in both the UK and Australia, including managing and curating the Viewfinder Photography Gallery of which she is now Chair. She has been a guest speaker at London College of Communication, Farnham College and South Bank University. Louise has a BA in Design and an MA in Photography, was previously a committee member of London Independent Photography and is a member of Engage and the Arts Marketing Association. (On maternity leave from July 2011 to March 2012).

Gwen Collingridge will be covering Louise’s post whilst she is on maternity leave. She has 12 years experience in business development, marketing and communications, previously working for Yorkshire Forward, Arts & Business and EMAP. Gwen has previously been a non – executive director of Axis Web Developments Board; on the Culture Finance North West Panel and was in the first Leadership Unleashed Cohort.

Cara Courage, Head of Learning, supports and advocates for the built environment education and learning teams around the Network and their activity within schools and community settings and within the sector. She is an arts consultant with a specialism in creative professional development, cultural learning, architecture, public and visual arts and a Transition Co-coordinator for the Creative Campus Initiative, the largest higher educational consortia delivering an artistic response to London 2012.

Alison Raimes manages the financial administration for both Architecture Centre Network and the Building Exploratory. She studied Fine Art and has been a practicing multi media artist for over 12 years. Alison is also an active member of Bow Arts Trust where she has a studio and was a key speaker at ‘Regeneration and the Premises Crisis: Finding the Space for Art’. She co-authored the publication from that event and has been proactive in the development of relationships between developers and artists in the East End.

Peter Bishop (Chair)

Peter is Director of Allies and Morrison Urban Practitioners. He was previously Deputy Chief Executive of the London Development Agency. Peter trained in town planning at Manchester University. Over the past 20 years he has been a planning director in four central London boroughs and has worked on major projects including Canary Wharf, the BBC’s campus at White City and the Kings Cross development. He was appointed as the first Director of Design for London, the Mayor’s architecture and design studio, in 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Group Director at the London Development Agency. In this role he combined Design for London with the Agency’s land development, environmental, housing and public space programmes. Peter lectures and teaches extensively, is a visiting professor at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University, is an advisor to the City of Bucharest and an honorary fellow of University College London.

Andy von Bradsky

Andy is Chairman of PRP Architects and is responsible for the growth, strategic planning and management of PRP's five offices, and his experience lies in large-scale housing and masterplanning projects in urban and suburban locations nationwide for both public and private sector clients.

Paul Grover

Paul is a Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth University. He is a consultant to, and formerly Chief Executive of, the Solent Centre for Architecture + Design, whose aim is to become a vehicle to promote design of the highest quality in the built environment with twin emphases on achieving both environmental and social sustainability.

Belinda Irlam-Mowbray

Belinda is the Director of RIBA North West, based in Liverpool.  She was involved in the establishment of Places Matter!, the architecture centre for the North West and sits on the Advisory Board. Belinda was responsible for the establishment of the milkandsugar gallery and bookshop in Liverpool. Her other key initiatives include A magazine and Architruck, both developed to promote design excellence in the region.

Conrad Peters

Conrad is a training and development consultant having worked in the City for Barclays Bank for most of his career. He has an MSc in Training and is a Fellow of the RSA. He is also a trustee and former Chair of the Black Cultural Archives, a Charity embarking on developing the first Heritage Centre for Black British History and Culture in the UK. 
 
Victoria Thornton, Hon FRIBA, OBE

Victoria has been involved in the field of architecture for over twenty years. She is Founding Director of Open-City, London’s leading architecture organisation, established in 1992. As well as director and curator of many high-profile exhibitions/initiatives, Victoria established the RIBA Architecture Centre (1994-98);has been Architecture Consultant to the British Council VAD (1998-2000); architectural advisor to the Scottish Arts Council (2000) and judge for the RIBA Awards (2003), Chair and Board Member of Architecture Centre Network (2006) and the DCMS’ Engaging Places Advisory Panel (2007). She is currently a Board Member of the Irish Architecture Foundation. In 2003 RIBA awarded an Honorary Fellowship to Victoria in recognition of her contribution to architecture and the education of future generations and in 2005 awarded an honorary MA degree by London Metropolitan University.  She is also a fellow of the RSA and completed an MA relating to European architecture policy and young people (2009).

Gillian Fearnyough

Previously CEO of The Architecture Centre in Bristol for seven years, leading on the creative and design action programmes. Gillian previously worked in the East Midlands for the architecture centre Opun, developing their arts and education programme, and for Arts Council East Midlands on Architecture Week. Gillian studied architecture in Birmingham, and for 20 years ran Ad-lib, a design research and information consultancy, based in London. She has wide business experience including design management, product development (with Barbour Index) and information management.