Caroline Sharpen has worked as a senior executive in Australian and US cultural organisations for two decades, and in 2019 became Chief Executive Officer of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Caroline also serves on the boards of Symphony Services Australia and Creative Partnerships Australia. Caroline remains Principal of her own Sharpen Creative Industries Consulting. She was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, holds a Master of Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and achieved her Bachelor of Music (Honours I) and Graduate Diploma in Music at the University of Tasmania.