Catherine Lee

Managing Director and owner, Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant Services

Catherine is a highly experienced Personal Assistant and Office Manager. She has experienced life at Chairman and CEO level in both public and private sectors and worked for businesses both large and small – as well as life managing a restaurant and being a travelling cook in Africa!

Catherine established Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant Services to provide proactive and professional PA and administrative support to business professionals. She has a passion for helping people move their business forward, be successful and achieve all their professional goals.

Catherine is assisted by a hand-picked team of highly experienced and trusted professionals that maintain the very high standards and quality of work that you will come to expect from Kaleidoscope.

Nikki Thurston

Virtual Assistant

Nikki's experience in insurance, administration and business support services make her an excellent all-rounder who prides herself on turning her hand to any task Kaleidoscope clients need. She spent 10 years in the insurance industry, in customer service as a team leader and as PA to a head of department. She also spent one year as PA to the CEO of Business Link York and North Yorkshire - giving her a good understanding of the challenges and opportunities available to small and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs.

Since becoming a mother, she has worked as a virtual assistant handling invoicing, telephone queries, typing and audio typing for clients. She specialises in event planning, from small meetings to large corporate events, plus data entry, minute taking, diary and email management, invoicing, audio typing and marketing mail-outs.

She lives in York with her partner, 18-month-old daughter and an old ginger cat called Fred.

Barbara Munley

Virtual Assistant

Your documents are in safe hands when they're entrusted to Barbara, a highly experienced digital transcriber. Fast turnaround and excellent standards of accuracy are a core part of the service Barbara provides as a Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant.

She has 20 years’ experience as a legal secretary, working for large law firms including Barrington Black and Morley Mitchell Solicitors. Now working as a freelance transcriber, she still counts large London law firms among her clients. She frequently deals with sensitive material for the High Court and County Courts, often turning polished documents around overnight for use in court.

She's a Yorkshire lass, now happily living in York, describing herself as 'madly in love' with her second husband.