Staff

Peter Gingold founded TippingPoint in 2005, and is Director. He has had a very varied career, including spending a number of years working in low cost housing in developing countries, founding an electronics business in the silicon fen, and working as a management consultant. He became Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2001, and led the artistic side of Liverpool’s successful bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008. He doesn’t anticipate working on anything other than climate change for the rest of his life. He is a Trustee of the meditation centre Gaia House, and the homeless charity Emmaus Greenwich.

TippingPoint is a network organisation, with a range of experienced colleagues working on projects as appropriate: they include:

Mark Goldthorpe has twenty years’ experience of researching, developing and facilitating positive action on the challenges of sustainability and climate change, with postgraduate qualifications in environmental management, policy studies and climate change. He worked with UKCIP at the University of Oxford, as well as at the University of Exeter and the Environment Centre (tEC) in Southampton. He has played a number of roles with TippingPoint, including project managing several recent events.

 

Alan Dix has worked as a theatre maker and arts consultant for over 30 years. He has supported organisations and artists throughout the UK in the production of new work and has developed cultural policies and programmes with local authorities, Arts Council England and many other public bodies. In 2012 Alan produced My Last Car – a high spirited examination of the motor car, its impact on our sense of self and the adaptations we must make to address a future that may not include the ubiquitous automobile. My Last Car will be on tour again in 2014.

Michael Trainor now has a proper job - he is Creative Director for Blackpool and Wyre. He originally trained as a product designer but quickly became a collector and expert on twentieth century design and occasional TV pundit before selling everything he owned to a museum. He spent the last 15 years as a professional artist and has particular interest in consumerism and our relationship to stuff. Every 5 years he collects everything he hasn’t consumed for an exhibition in 2025.

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