Team

Sue Wiggins, Chairman and CEO
President and Founder of art4business and ArtSouth Inc., Ms. Wiggins is a lifelong entrepreneur. She has assisted with the development of art collections at countless corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, hospitals and universities. She is a pioneer in the field of art consulting with 25 years expertise. A member of National Association for Corporate Art Management and a board member of the Philadelphia Print Center, she has lectured extensively on art in the corporate environment. A graduate of the University of Alabama (BA, 1972) with studies in communications and art history, she also designed and implemented special programs for the University's Peace Corp department.

Heather Gibson, COO
Ms. Gibson, the Chief Operating Officer art4business, has twelve years experience in art business management. She has actively consulted on $5-million projects including Wyeth, McGraw-Hill and IBM where she supervised major acquisitions projects, framing and installations. In addition, she has directed all of ArtSouth/art4business' major disposition projects. Ms. Gibson managed the implementation of art4business' SKU SmartArt bar-coding system. Her specialties include art appraisal, condition assessment and art handling.

Ms. Gibson has a BA from the University of Delaware (1988) and is USPAP (Uniform Standard Principles of Appraisal Practice) certified (1998). She is continuing her coursework in art appraisal.

Carrie Cook, Project Manager
Ms. Cook has been with art4business Inc. for six years, working in a variety of roles from Slide Registrar to Project Manager. She has managed several acquisition projects from inception to installation and has specific skills in research, art handling and installation. She has a broad knowledge of contemporary artists throughout the United States.

Ms. Cook has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

Monika F. Brodsky, Consultant
Mrs. Brodsky has more than thirteen years experience in art business management. As a Boston-based consultant, she has been involved in the inventory, project coordination and installation of art for several New England clients including IBM, Cigna, and Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP. As a previous primary project manager for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in New Jersey, her work included redefining the focus of their original collection for a 500,000 square foot research facility as well as curating art programs for numerous internal company divisions. In addition, she arranged the solicitation of venues for a traveling illustration exhibition and its related transportation coordination, conservation and framing. She has also supervised art installations, art audits and the coordination of research projects. She was previously the primary facilitator of the SmartArt inventory system for art asset management, documenting the fine art holdings of many major corporations around the country.

Mrs. Brodsky has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

Leah Winter
Ms. Winter joined art4business Inc., after completing an internship with a curator at the Gershman Y Galleries, through the JCC of Philadelphia. There she assisted the curator on studio visits in New York, selecting artwork, installing exhibitions, editing and producing brochures and serving as a liaison to the artists. Ms. Winter also taught art in a suburban public school of Philadelphia. There she came up with projects that followed the middle school curriculum, managed classes for grades 6 - 9, aided in the coordination of the school's art show, and made revisions to the middle school art curriculum.

Christine Fields, Associate
Ms. Fields recently joined art4business as an Associate. Her responsibilities at art4business include the coordination of all shipping, art handling and framing. Her attention to detail provides the continuity required to maintain a seamless flow of work between artists, clients and vendors.

Prior to Art4Business, she was working in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Data Center and helped out when needed with the Dali exhibit. She has volunteered at the Zirkle Gallery in Harrisonburg, Virginia planning openings and working directly as an assistant to the artists.

Ms. Fields graduated from James Madison University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History.

Morgan Pinkstone
Ms. Pinkstone recently joined art4business Inc. after five years working in non-profit arts and cultural organizations, including Perkins Center for the Arts and International House Philadelphia. Her previous experience includes preparing exhibitions and events, artist relations, writing and editing promotional materials and coordinating volunteer efforts. As an associate at art4business, Morgan manages inventory for Cigna's collection and helps administer the art program for Novartis pharmaceuticals.

Lauren Gutierrez
Ms. Gutierrez brings a broad knowledge of the arts and arts administration to art4business. She has experience working with non profit community arts organizations as well as private art galleries. Her skills range from serving as a development director for the Village of Arts and Humanities to special exhibitions project management, exhibition design, artist liaison, marketing, and organizational evaluation.

Ms. Gutierrez currently administers Novartis Pharmaceutical's art program for company divisions in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. She manages art acquisitions from curation to installation; maintains and manages Novartis' on-line art inventory; and coordinates conservation, framing and art handling.

In addition to holding a Graduate Degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University, Ms. Gutierrez also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cleveland Institute of Fine Arts.

UK Personnel

Allison McCarthy, Operating Director

Ms. McCarthy has seven years experience in arts management. She is supervising all aspects of project management for the art4business,ltd office, including research and implementation for major acquisitions projects, collections management, and framing and installation for clients with offices in Europe, including MasterCard and McGraw-Hill. Her specialties include project administration and research, public relations, graphic design, and art handling.

Prior to art4business, Ms. McCarthy was Executive Director at LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts in Tallahassee, Florida, and Arts Consultant and Program Manager with the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs in Tallahassee, Florida. She has juried several art exhibits, developed and presented an historic architecture walking tour for Tallahassee, and served as Artist in Residence at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India.

Ms. McCarthy has a BFA in Historic Preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2001). She is continuing her graduate coursework in Art History from Florida State University, with an emphasis on modernist art and architecture.

Anita Hamilton, Managing Director

Anita has over ten years' project management experience within European companies advising and working with senior executives, architects and interior designers on aesthetic and operational aspects of continually evolving working environments. As Managing Director of art4business' UK office, she has managed art programmes for MasterCard Europe, Montagu Private Equity and USAA.

Raffaela Formichella, Senior Project Manager

Raffaela is an Interior Designer with over twenty years' experience focused on client design management. Most recent projects include the new headquarters for Barclays at One Churchill Place where she was part of the client art team compiling the art brief and location of pieces. At Standard Chartered Bank Raffaela prepared, on behalf of the client, the Request for Proposals for the Art Consultant and the Decorative Designer. These headquarters for major organisations have been developed as landmark buildings with a new approach to working practices and building management.

Raffaela's design experience covers a variety of market sectors, predominately working in the private sector with a move to end user within the last five years. She has experience interacting with other professional consultants, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers on all aspects required in a new build or refurbishment project.

Evi Baniotopoulou, Art Consultant

Evi has eleven years' experience within the art museum and heritage fields in the UK and Europe. She has collaborated for a number of years as a freelance consultant/ researcher on multinational projects funded by the European Union. In the UK she has worked with, amongst others, the University College London Museums and Collections, the Royal Academy and the Tate, where she was Assistant Curator in the Collection. She has been involved in the curation of many contemporary art exhibitions, both in the UK and Europe and has lectured on contemporary art and exhibitions. She has also acted as a freelance researcher for the Museums Association and the Policy Studies Institute.

Evi holds a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Art History from the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece and masters degrees in Modern Art and Theory from the University of Essex and in Museum Studies from University College London.

She is working with art4business as a freelance associate.

Elpiniki Psalti, Art Consultant

Elpi has ten years' experience working with Museums in the UK and Greece. Her role has included curatorial support for a major London Museum project, collections inventory, gallery de- installation, object storage organisation and planning.

She has a BA (Honours) in History ad Archeology and an MA in Managing Archaeological Sites.

Alison Foster, Art Consultant

Alison is a museum professional, specializing in the area of curatorship, with MA degrees in Museum Studies and Archaeology and Anthropology. She has diverse museum and gallery experience, from collections management and care, exhibition research and installation, communication and interpretation, educational and administrative duties to outreach work and training.

She recently worked for BTC Co (a consortium of International partners including BP) where she was involved in revising the Cultural Heritage Management and Transition Plans for the move from the construction to operation phase of the BTC pipeline project to ensure the protection of archaeological sites, monuments and other items of cultural heritage in the vicinity of the pipeline right of way.

She is working with art4business as a freelance associate.

Abigail Hampton, Art Consultant

Abigail Hampton has 5 years experience in arts administration and project management. She has worked for several high profile arts organizations, including The British Museum and the Heritage Lottery Fund. From 2002-2005, Abbie worked at the Wellcome Trust as an assistant curator and project coordinator for their contemporary art and science exhibitions programme. She recently delivered an interactive exhibition in collaboration with the V&A.

Abigail has a BA from The University of Manchester and a Masters degree in museum and gallery studies from University College London.

She is working with art4business as a freelance consultant.