People in the News (09/19/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries
The Cummings Foundation in Woburn, Massachusetts, has announced the appointment of JOYCE VYRIOTES as its new executive director, effective October 1. Vyriotes, who is currently deputy director, succeeds JOEL SWETS, who is retiring after a fifteen-year tenure. Vyriotes is and will continue to be employed by the foundation's for-profit affiliate, Cummings Properties, where she serves as director of communications and marketing.
The F.M. Kirby Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, has announced that S. DILLARD KIRBY plans to step down as president and from his day-to-day managerial duties, effective September 30. Having helped guide the foundation for twenty-six years, Kirby intends to remain a fully engaged board member, serving on several committees. Executive vice president JUSTIN J. KICZEK will assume the newly created title of executive director, while board member LAURA HORTON VIRKLER, Kirby's niece and daughter of board member Alice Kirby Horton, will serve as the foundation's first volunteer chairperson.
The Kresge Foundation has announced that vice president and chief investment officer ROBERT J. MANILLA will retire in June 2022. During his tenure, Manilla created a professional investment office within the foundation, designed a global investment strategy that has resulted in annualized returns of nearly 9 percent, and helped establish student-managed investment funds at Oakland University, his alma mater, and Wayne State University to expose undergraduates to careers in philanthropic investing. Managing director JOHN A. BARKER, who joined Kresge in 2007, has been named deputy CIO effective immediately and will succeed to the role of vice president and CIO next June. The foundation also announced that VENUS B. PHILLIPS has been promoted to managing director; since joining the foundation in 2019, she has been integral to the investment office's recruiting activities and has led the team's successful partnerships with Girls Who Invest and the John W. Rogers, Jr. Internship Program in Finance.
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation has announced the appointment of MARGARET GOLDBERG as president and CEO, effective immediately. Goldberg broke her C2 vertebrae as a passenger in a car accident at age 16 and, though she herself recovered fully, committed to working on behalf of the paralysis community and helped establish the Reeve Foundation, the only national paralysis-focused organization with a dual mission — "Today's Care. Tomorrow's Cure." She has worked for more than twenty years at the foundation, most recently as COO and, prior to that, as vice president of policy and programs.
The Satterberg Foundation has announced that director of programs and strategic initiatives CC GARDNER GLESER has decided to take a sabbatical from October 1 through January 1, 2022 "to rest, repair, and heal," after which she will leave the foundation. "I am...extremely proud of what we have accomplished together over the past five years while being in partnership and community together," Gardner Glesser wrote on the foundation's blog. "It has been a challenging last eighteen months, and many of us are taking a moment to re-evaluate things."
The John Templeton Foundation has announced the appointment of JOHN BARE as vice president of programs. In this role, Bare will oversee the Human Sciences, Character Development, and Individual Freedom & Free Markets departments. Bare most recently served as senior vice president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and Disruptor-in-Residence at Babson College. He joins the foundation with more than two decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, and as an author, journalist, and media consultant.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has named California Supreme Court justice MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR as its next president, effective November 1. Known for his international perspective and intellectual reach, Cuéllar was appointed to the court in 2015; he previously served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy and as the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford Law School and director of Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Born in Matamoros, Mexico, he moved with his family to California at age 14, became a naturalized U.S. citizen at 21, and holds degrees from Harvard College, Yale Law School, and Stanford. Among his first initiatives at Carnegie will be to reopen a West Coast office in Silicon Valley. He succeeds WILLIAM J. BURNS, who now serves as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Feeding America has announced the promotion of VINCE HALL to chief government relations officer, a position he has held on an interim basis since February. Hall joined Feeding America in July 2020 as vice president of external affairs. He previously served as the CEO of Feeding San Diego; his prior experience includes serving as chief of staff for local, state, and federal elected officials including California Governor Gray Davis; vice president, public affairs and communication for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest; and executive director of Future of California Elections.
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has named MICHAEL SKREBUTENAS as its new senior vice president for housing. Skrebutenas previously served as senior vice president and regional director of community preservation in the Albany, New York, office of Community Preservation Corporation, where he originated and closed on construction, permanent, and agency multifamily financing for affordable, supportive, and market-rate housing. Prior to his work at CPC, Skrebutenas was executive deputy commissioner/president at New York State Housing and Community Renewal.
The PAN Foundation, one of the nation's largest charitable patient assistance organizations, has announced KEVIN L. HAGAN as its next president and CEO. Hagan most recently served as CEO of Thrive Impact, a consulting firm he co-founded in 2018 that supports nonprofits, associations, and foundations in the areas of organizational strategy, leadership and governance, and revenue diversification. He previously served as CEO of the American Diabetes Association, president and CEO of Feed the Children, and COO of Good360. He succeeds DAN KLEIN, who is retiring after seven years at the helm.
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the appointment of MARYANA ISKANDER as CEO, succeeding KATHERINE MAHER, effective January 5, 2022. A social entrepreneur and an expert in building cross-sector partnerships that combine innovative technology with community-led solutions to close opportunity gaps, she has served since 2013 as CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a South African nonprofit social enterprise focused on building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment, which was a 2019 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Born in Cairo, Egypt, and educated in the United States and the United Kingdom, Iskander previously served as COO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
