PEOPLE
The CCAT Board is comprised of a mix of skilled professionals with expertise in finance, recruitment, legal, public relations, advocacy, and fundraising.
Tim Brown - Chair
Tim was appointed Chair in 2011 when the Trusts which oversaw Fringe and the Cuba Street Carnival were merged. He had an extensive corporate career with Morrison & Co and Infratil which included board roles on a number of companies and a decade as chair of Wellington Airport. He was the Wellingtonian of the Year: Business in 2021 and won the Chamber of Commerce’s Wellington Adress award in 2022. In 2022 he was elected to represent Motukairangi Ward on the Wellington City Council where he is Chair of the Environment and Infrastructure Committee and the City’s representative on the Regional Water Committee. He is a passionate supporter of the arts and is also on the board of NZOpera.
Miranda Clayton
Miranda became a board member at Wellington's Fringe Arts Trust in 2001, then was the Chair from 2004 to 2011. Her professional background is diverse, spanning both science, public affairs, communications, and the arts. Miranda served as the manager of the Palmerston North Community Arts Council. In this capacity, she oversaw various responsibilities such as event management, sponsorship, promotion, public relations, media management, and marketing initiatives. She also held a trustee position on the Square Edge Creative Centre Trust Board. Currently, Miranda is the Chair at the Hawke's Bay Prima Volta Charitable Trust. In her day-to-day career, she serves as a corporate communications specialist at Farmers' Mutual Group (FMG).
Nick Simcock
Nick was the Chair of the Cuba Street Carnival Collective Trust from 2008 until 2011 and has been a Trustee with CCAT since its inception. He is a passionate Wellington and emerging arts supporter. Professionally Nick is a company director, consultant and investor.
Liz Aitken
Liz Aitken brings more than 15 years of board governance and festival leadership to her role as trustee of Creative Capital Arts Trust. A director and trustee across arts, technology and non-profit organisations, including Wellington Opera, Barts Choir and family office Foggy Valley Aotearoa, Liz pairs hands-on festival production experience (having led the Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival and founded the Noah's Ark Challenge) with sharp governance and stakeholder expertise. Wellington-based, she is passionate about backing the artists, practitioners and communities that make Pōneke's cultural life thrive.
Michael O'Flaherty
Michael is new to the Board in August 2026. He is a commercial lawyer at Wellington law firm Gibson Sheat and proud father of two sons. Michael has spent most of his life in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara and loves to support the city’s arts, culture and sports, and all other things Wellington.
The CCAT Management Team comprises of the Chief Executive, Festival Directors, Marketing Director.
Kim Bailey | Chief Executive CCAT
Kim is excited to rejoin the Creative Capital Arts Trust as the Chief Executive. Kim has worked in Theatre Management throughout New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Previous roles have included Regional Site Manager (Stage School Australia), Venue Manager (Turner Centre, Kerikeri), Box Office Manager (Assembly Rooms- Edinburgh Fringe). Kim currently produces for Primarily Dance and Kim Bailey Productions and since returning to New Zealand in 2020 has produced Grooves! mini tour (2020), The Nutcracker (2020 & 2021), Grooves! South Island Tour (2021), Comedy of Errors (2021), Macbeth (2021 & 2022), Pointe Shoes and ShowBiz (2022), Melodrama (2022) and premiered Mens Rea at NZ Fringe 2023. Kim was also a founding member of The Stage Door Community Theatre. Kim is an expert in harnessing the power of people to motivate, drive positive change and strategic direction, and inspires teams to exceed expectations while maintaining a happy, safe and supportive work environment.
Bianca Bailey | CubaDupa Director
Bianca Bailey is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based event producer, musician and songwriter who joined the Creative Capital Arts Trust (CCAT) team in 2020. She currently serves as Festival Director for CubaDupa, leading programming, scheduling, artist communications, and payment systems. Bianca brings a sharp eye for project management, having developed bespoke festival management platforms for both CCAT and Eyegum Music Collective.
With a background spanning community-driven and large-scale events, Bianca has previously worked with the Auckland Folk Festival (2016-2021) and co-curated Welcome To Nowhere (2020 - 2021) as part of the Eyegum team, also coordinating volunteers. Alongside her work in events, she is active musician, performing under the moniker Wiri Donna, an indie rock project known for its raw energy and emotionally charged live shows.
Catarina Gutierrez | Marketing Director
Catarina Gutierrez (she/her) is a multi award-winning photographer and artist originally born in Atlanta, Georgia and who now lives in Wellington. She is an experienced freelance marketing and community manager with an obsession for books and films. She served as the Treasurer of Women in Urbanism Aotearoa since 2021, Chief Organiser of Women Who Get Sh*t Done Unconference (2017 & 2023) and Board of Directors at Bikes Welcome and Freerange Press (2017-2020).
She has led various social enterprises, startups and non-profits since moving from the US in 2013. As a keen advocate of Wellington, she loves working in the creative sector and enjoys seeing people smile and laugh on the streets of Pōneke. Since 2023, she has worked as Marketing Director for CCAT.
Luke Eisemann| NZ Fringe Director
Luke Eisemann is a New York born and trained theatre practitioner going into his third NZ Fringe Festival, and second as Operations Manager. Having navigated the financial and operational challenges of 2022, he helped deliver NZ Fringe festivals in 2023 and 2024 building internal systems and processes to track and reconcile a high volume of financial transactions, and paying out our participating artists and venues in record time.
Building and maintaining external stakeholders ensured smooth communications between venues, box office staff, and the small army of volunteers deployed to keep the festival humming. When not on the NZ Fringe team, Luke has served as the Operations Manager for Whanau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival for the past four years, allowing him to build his skills between contracts, and return to CCAT with practical insights and upgrades to the organisation, such as formatting ticketing data from previous years to better inform our artists what ingredients make up a financially successful production.
