TONNY HOLTRUST APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AT DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN
EINDHOVEN – The Supervisory Board at Design Academy Eindhoven has appointed Tonny Holtrust Director of Education from 1 August 2013. By appointing Tonny Holtrust the academy’s Executive Board has been completed.
In her capacity as Director of Education Tonny Holtrust will be defining and managing the educational programme at Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). She will also join the Executive Board, which was joined earlier this month by Thomas Widdershoven as the academy’s new Creative Director.
The decision to appoint Holtrust was the result of an extensive selection procedure which involved representatives from the different ranks within the academy as well as a renowned recruitment and selection agency. In the end the decision to appoint Holtrust was unanimous, and based on her personality, network, career and wide experience both within education and the cultural field. Her previous experience, for instance, includes being Director of Art & Design at ArtEZ from 2003 - 2010, chairing a range of advisory committees (Fonds voor Creatieve Industrie, Mondriaan Fonds), being head mistress of the Fons Vitae Lyceum and a member of the Execuive Board for the Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Amsterdam Zuid.
When Tonny Holtrust joins the Executive Board (CvB) on 1 August 2013, the completed Board will consist of:
• Thomas Widdershoven – Creative Director, Chair of the Executive Board
• Tonny Holtrust – Director of Education, member of the Executive Board
• Igor van Hooff – Director of Operations, member of the Executive Board
Ton Wagemakers, currently the acting Director of Education and member of the Executive Board, will return to his post on the academy’s Supervisory Board. He was on the Supervisory Board when he temporarily joined the Executive Board in the summer of 2012.