Curtis Institute of Music

Elizabeth Warshawer is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In this role, Elizabeth directs all non-musical functions of the Institute including, finance, investment, development, external affairs, communications and marketing, legal affairs, information technology, facilities and human resources. Since 2007, she has successfully managed the Institute’s physical expansion with the construction of Lenfest Hall; a $65 million mixed use building that opened in August 2011.

Elizabeth served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2003 – 2007 during which time she also agreed to serve as Interim Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for one year. Her responsibilities included labor relations, all human resource functions for the staff and musicians, media and technology, financial controls and operating procedures, shared services with the Kimmel Center, office management, and interdepartmental coordination. From 2000 – 2003, Elizabeth served as Vice President and Chief People Officer. Her initial work with The Philadelphia Orchestra was as co-founder and principal consultant of The Alliance for Effective Organizations Inc. (AEO), a firm specializing in a full array of management consulting services.

Elizabeth brings more than thirty years of successful experience in leading and managing organizations in the corporate, non-profit, and academic arenas.
With experience working inside organizations and as an external consultant, Elizabeth has worked with senior management in strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, business process reengineering, capability development, executive education and executive coaching. Her consulting and design activities have included a focus on helping organizations to align the competencies of their existing workforce with the strategic demands of emerging business challenges, with particular focus on issues of culture change and leadership development. She provided consulting services to the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, for clients of their Custom Programs and was selected as one of fifteen senior strategy and organization effectiveness practitioners from around the world to form the initial partnership network for the Center for Organizational Fitness founded by Mike Beer of the Harvard Business School.

Before co-founding AEO, Elizabeth was Vice President of Human Resources for NovaCare, Inc., a $1.7 billion rehabilitation and professional employer services company. While serving as the senior human resource generalist for the Outpatient Businesses, she was also responsible for the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of corporate-wide training and development programs and services to guide NovaCare in an ongoing effort to provide and promote innovative development opportunities for its managers and senior executives. She was responsible for working with senior business leaders to link development efforts to business strategy, provide executive assessment, development and coaching, and direct a comprehensive succession management process. As part of a major business redesign effort, Elizabeth led the development of all systems, processes and training efforts to support the transformation of the Outpatient business in response to the changes in healthcare reimbursement.

Prior to her work with NovaCare, Elizabeth served as Director of Human Resources for Scott Paper Company’s North American operations. She directed Scott Paper Company’s Center for Organizational Learning, serving the company’s domestic and global business units. She focused on the selection and development of global business leaders and in conjunction with that effort, served on the Thunderbird International Consortium Advisory Board of The American Graduate School of International Management.

Elizabeth holds a BA from Washington University with Phi Beta Kappa distinction, and an MA Ed, also from Washington University. She serves as a trustee on the board of the League of American Orchestras and Play On, Philly!

Curtis institute of Music

Elizabeth Racheva maintains fulfilling parallel careers in arts administration and classical vocal performance. In both realms Elizabeth leverages skills for strategic thinking, creativity, and positive team- building with consistently successful results.

Elizabeth joined the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008 as a member of the development team, with the charge to establish best-practice development research operations and to streamline stewardship initiatives. As director of special projects since 2010, her responsibilities have expanded to include cross-departmental and external project management, integrated development and communications campaigns online and in print, and event planning. Projects of note include leadership in design and implementation of the school-wide 2011-12 Appassionato season; the development of the new curtis.edu website and associated business systems; and co-establishing the Crescendo Club, Curtis’s first young friends affinity group.

Elizabeth developed diverse experience in the business functions of higher education at Greenhill School, Southern Methodist University, and Columbia University. At Greenhill, a highly competitive independent school in Texas, Elizabeth was hired to establish a research and campaign planning program within the school’s advancement/fundraising department. Within a year at Greenhill, she engineered a complex endowed fund reporting system and created a database resource cooperative with other independent schools across the country. Reporting directly to the Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs at SMU, Elizabeth assisted in a variety of special projects during the quiet phase of the university’s multi-million dollar capital campaign. These included leadership in establishing a prospect management system, oversight of donor proposal development, and identifying talent to grow the staff by 180% in preparation for the campaign’s public phase. Her introduction to higher education was at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City, where she assisted in property acquisition and disposition, strategic planning, and leasing associated with the 17 acre Manhattanville campus planning project in West Harlem. This third campus for the school, designed by Renzo Piano, is slated to emerge over the next quarter century, providing more than 6.8 million square feet of space for teaching, research, and support services.

Prior to embarking on a non-profit career, Elizabeth was a full-time classical singer. A passionate advocate for the beauty and transformative power of art song in particular, she has been associated with the Dallas-based art song series Voces Intimae since its founding in 2006, first as a performer, then as artistic director for three seasons, and now as a board member. A lyric soprano acclaimed as “a great storyteller”, Elizabeth has been featured in concert throughout the country with the symphonies of Dallas, North Carolina, Fort Worth, Eugene, Charleston, Lubbock, and the Mid-Atlantic, as well as opera companies and choral societies. Her many recital and chamber music engagements include appearances for Philadelphia’s Lyric Fest and Kimmel Center Presents!, New York’s Trinity Concerts at One, Dallas’s Voices of Change, Fort Worth’s Cliburn at the Modern, and Baltimore’s Community Concerts at Second.

As a freelance consultant, she has partnered with organizations including Camerata Winds, LIFT Philadelphia, and Lyric Fest to assess and implement effective and comprehensive development, communications, and marketing strategies, with an increasing focus on integration of technology and new media.

Elizabeth holds a BA with high honors in music from Emory University, where she was co-director of Volunteer Emory. She earned a Master in Music and Graduate Performance Diploma in voice, with concentration in opera, from Peabody Conservatory, where she was nominated to the Pi Kappa Lambda honor society. Elizabeth experienced further training at the Middlebury College German for Singers program, Berkshire Opera Company Resident Artist Program, and the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria.

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

Kelly M. O’Brien has been at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for eleven years and was appointed Executive Director of Development in March 2010, managing a staff of thirty-four responsible for Individual Giving, Institutional Support, Planned Giving and Gifts of Works of Art, and Development Administration. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, Kelly was Development Officer for Major Gifts and Capital Projects at the Seattle Art Museum. A graduate of Emory University with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics, she was Director of Development and Alumni Affairs at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory and served as Director of Alumni Giving and as Director of the Parents Fund and Telefund.

Cleveland Museum of Art

August A. Napoli, Jr., Deputy Director and Chief Advancement Officer, joined the Cleveland Museum of Art December 2010. Mr. Napoli has thirty years of nonprofit executive experience in the northeast Ohio region.  He led institutional advancement activities at several universities including Baldwin Wallace College and Cleveland State University.  He also served as the first president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Diocesan Foundation, which raised more than twelve million annually for Catholic education and charities.  In 2002, Mr. Napoli assumed Vice Chairman responsibilities with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  Under his leadership more than $340 million was raised from public and private sector sources to support the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center campaign. Mr. Napoli is a graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. Having once served as a member of Highland Heights City Council, he currently is affiliated with numerous professional and community organizations. Mr. Napoli also serves as adjunct faculty with the Case Western Reserve Mandel School of Applied Sciences and Center for Nonprofit Organizations programs.

Art Gallery of Ontario

Shawn St. Michael is the Executive Director, Development at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada, where she has been a lead fundraiser for 15 years. Under her leadership, in 2008 the Transformation AGO campaign achieved $306 million – a new benchmark in Canadian cultural fundraising.  In 2009, Shawn was named the Association of Fundraising Professional’s (AFP) Toronto Chapter’s Outstanding Fundraising Professional.  As the 2011 President of Art Museum Development Association (AMDA), she was the first Canadian President in its 40 year history.

Following studies at York University in Toronto, she completed the Christies’ Fine Arts Course and has worked at the P & D Colnaghi Gallery in London, England.  She has worked in communications at Orchestra London and was the Director of Development at the Stratford Festival in Canada, based in the Toronto office.

Marts & Lundy

Lynne joined Marts & Lundy as a senior consultant in 2000 with more than five years of consulting experience in her own practice and with another national consulting firm. She co-leads the firm’s Arts & Culture Practice Group and has served in staff and consultant roles to the nonprofit sector for more than twenty-seven years working with a varied client portfolio including performing and visual arts organizations, educational institutions, hospitals and medical centers, health and human service agencies, museums, environmental organizations, foundations, corporations, venture philanthropists, and numerous public-private partnerships. Lynne provides consulting services in fundraising, capital campaigns, nonprofit management, board governance, strategic planning, leadership coaching and development to nonprofit organizations.

Along with her Marts & Lundy client work, Lynne also serves as a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches board governance in the Nonprofit Management Program. She is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Marts & Lundy.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Lisa M. Key is the Director of Development at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) where she has overseen all fundraising and membership activities since 2007.  In her position at the MCA, Lisa is a senior manager who works throughout the museum to fund the museum’s numerous projects and to coordinate efforts that engage Trustees and volunteers in the fundraising process.  Prior to the MCA, Lisa worked at the Field Museum at Director of Strategic Initiatives.  Previous to her work with the Field Museum, Lisa held numerous positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, working in corporate and foundation relations, serving as Vice President for Development, overseeing annual fund, organizational giving and individual giving and leaving as Vice President of Institutional Advancement charged directly with the capital campaign for the Modern Wing.  Lisa is committed to engaging the next generation of Arts Administrators through her work as an adjunct faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches in the Masters of Arts Administration and Public Policy Program and she also serves on the board of threewalls and is a member of the Arts Club, the Association of Fundraising Professionals and ArtTable.

Lisa Lustgarten Byala has worked in recruiting and executive search since 1998 including five years at the international global executive search firms, Heidrick & Struggles and Spencer Stuart, in their Education and Not-for-Profit practices. She specializes in placing Presidents and Executive Directors, senior development professionals as well as administrative and functional leaders in academia, research institutes, foundations, and arts organizations. Her recent clients include the High Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts and the Brandywine River Museum where she is conducting the Museum Director search.

Prior to her tenure in executive search, Ms. Byala was a recruiter for the national law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and she worked in publishing for Random House’s Bantam Doubleday Dell, Knopf, and Vintage Español divisions.

Ms. Byala is a cum laude graduate of Barnard College with degrees in Spanish and French and has a Master’s Degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Virginia. A former board member of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Charlottesville, Virginia and volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ms. Byala serves as a trustee of Sutton Place Synagogue and is Chair of the Development Committee.

Alexander Haas

Linda Wise McNay Partner, has completed her sixth year at Alexander Haas. Linda’s professional background includes work with both higher and secondary education, the arts and human service organizations and has included work in capital campaigns, annual fund, planned giving, membership, strategic planning and organization development.

Linda has lived and worked in Atlanta for more than 20 years. Most recently, she served as Chief Development Officer for the High Museum of Art leading its efforts to raise $95 million to bring great art from the Louvre and China to the Atlanta community. During her tenure she also managed the execution of an endowment campaign, initiated the institution’s first full-time planned giving effort, and increased the museum’s membership to a record 50,000. During this time, Linda served as national president of the Art Museum Development Association.

Prior to the High, Linda served as Director of Advancement at Pace Academy, a K-12 private school in Atlanta. During her time at Pace, she led the school’s largest and most successful capital fundraising campaign with a goal of $15 million. The campaign was an overwhelming success, reaching goal ahead of schedule, under budget and with 95% parent participation and 100% faculty/staff participation.

In higher education, Linda has held positions including Vice President of the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges; Executive Director of the Emory Challenge Fund at Emory University; Director of Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology and alumni and development roles at her alma mater, Transylvania University. Linda earned her Doctorate in Philosophy of Higher Education from Georgia State University; a Master of Business Administration specializing in Personnel Administration, from the University of Kentucky; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Kristen Greenaway is the Director of Development and External Relations at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and has held this position since July 2008. She began her career marketing professional services, working as national director of marketing for Coopers & Lybrand in both New Zealand and London, and for the London-based international law firm, Herbert Smith. For the past 20 years she has worked in higher education fundraising, and in that time has held director level positions at Cambridge University (UK), University College London (UK and North America), Erasmus University (Netherlands) and now at Duke University. Between her time at Erasmus and Duke she was director of events and communications for Sally Ride’s San Diego-based science education company, Sally Ride Science, dedicated to supporting girls’ interests in science, math and technology; and director of development for Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, an international non-profit membership society of nearly 60,000 scientists and engineers, based in RTP, NC. Greenaway holds a Master of Social Sciences from the University of Waikato (NZ), and is currently studying for a Master of Liberal Arts, at Duke.