Eileen Hanratty | Senior Manager – Membership & Projects

Eileen rejoined Business to Arts in 2016 as Membership & Project Manager having returned from Canada where she worked as Co-ordinator of Annual Programs & Patron Engagement at the Canadian Opera Company and VIP Ticket Executive at the Toronto International Film Festival.  In 2019, after a period of sustained membership growth, she was promoted to Senior Manager – Membership & Projects.

In this role, Eileen is responsible for developing our Corporate Membership offering. This includes the expansion of our donor-advised Arts Funds, our Artist-in-Residence (AR) Programme and the oversight of our membership and advisory services team, which engage many businesses and individuals in funding quality arts projects.

Eileen’s expertise lies in the areas of high-level member servicing, working with the Business to Arts team to deliver our members’ events programme, and collaboratively working with internal and external stakeholders to enhance sponsorship and CSR strategies.

Eileen graduated with a Masters in Cultural Policy & Arts Management from University College Dublin in 2014, having previously obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours, International Studies & Modern History, and a Master of Arts, European Union Politics from Queen’s University Belfast.

Eileen previously worked with Business to Arts as our Awards Manager in 2014.