Speaker: Kelsey Griffin
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA

Speakers: Biography

Kelsey Griffin

Director of Museum Operations
Bletchley Park Trust
The Mansion
Sherwood Drive
Milton Keynes
MK3 5AA United Kingdom
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk

Kelsey Griffin is the Director of Museum Operations for the Bletchley Park Trust. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Kelsey has been working for the Bletchley Park Trust in England for the last five years having previously been employed as Communications Manager for a major retail bank. Since she joined the museum, visitor numbers have risen by over 100%, it has enjoyed visits from some very high profile guests including HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall and HRH The Duke of Kent and in excess of £2,000,000 of funding has been secured. Amongst her key achievements for the museum, Kelsey was responsible for developing a major exhibition, ‘From Bletchley, With Love’, detailing Ian Fleming’s top-secret wartime work with Bletchley Park, which inspired the ideas for his novels. Kelsey has been utilizing Social Media as part of the Trust’s marketing strategy since January 2009.

Kelsey will present Can Twitter Save Bletchley Park?. [Paper]