Caroline Cole
Caroline is the founder and director of Colander.
She read architecture at New Hall, Cambridge and during her professional life has worked both as a design consultant and as a client commissioning design professionals. She has worked in-house with Arup Associates, Conran Associates and Crighton Ltd - where she became Managing Director; also, with Olympia and York where, as Retail Design Manager, she commissioned and then managed architects and designers in the first phase of Canary Wharf.
She has experience of working in Australia, Papua New Guinea, France and Scandinavia as well as across the UK.
More recently, she was Head of the Clients’ Advisory Service and Competitions Office at the RIBA, which gave her first hand experience of how clients view the architectural profession.
Caroline has published numerous articles and papers about the business of design and has spoken at many conferences and seminars to promote good design to clients, and good business to the professions.
She has been a judge of the Design Week Awards, the RIBA Regional Awards, the AJ Top 100 Awards and the Inspire Awards that recognise women in the built environment.
She was a member of the Steering Group responsible for the Government publication 'Architectural Competitions, a Handbook for Promoters'.
She is a Trustee of the Ove Arup Foundation, and sits on the Development Board for the CIC’s Design Quality Indicator.
Through Colander, she continues to work with client organisations, architects and consulting engineers.
For further information take a look at Caroline's LinkedIn profile
