Joining from Momentum Services - customer services provided for Eurostar - Grand brings a “wealth of experience” having held her position as managing director for the past four years and head of operations and customer service 11 years prior.
As executive director, she will “nurture and refine Company of Cooks’s management team and structure, and work with them over the course of the coming year, on a number of development projects with new and existing partners.”
She said: “It is an enormously exciting time for Company of Cooks. With its impressive 22-year history and an array of prestigious partners in the arts and culture sector, I am proud to be part of the team.
“I’m looking forward to honing my experience to maximise the potential of what is already a very well-established business.”
The news follows the recent appointment of Niels Bus as operations director, with founder and chief executive, Mike Lucy, commenting: “Marie and Niels are fantastic additions to our senior management team. I look forward to working with them both as we continue to grow and develop as a business.”
Company of Cooks current partners including the Royal Opera House, National Portrait Gallery, RHS Garden Wisley and Southbank Centre.