People in the News (4/10/16): Appointments and Promotions
The Duke Endowment has announced RHETT MABRY as its new president, succeeding GENE COCHRANE, who will retire in June. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Mabry joined the endowment in 1992 as associate director of health care, became director of the child care program area in 1998, and was named vice president in 2009. Cochrane joined the endowment in 1980, directed the health care program area from 1991 to 2002 and the higher education program area from 2005 to 2012, and has served as president since 2005. A native of Charlotte, Cochrane has served as a board member or trustee for numerous national and regional organizations, including the Council on Foundations, the Cannon Foundation, and the Southeastern Council of Foundations. He also was a founding board member of the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers and a former board chair of Grantmakers in Health. "Throughout his thirty-six years at the endowment, Gene has made a significant and lasting impact on our work in the Carolinas and nationally in the field of philanthropy," said Minor Shaw, the endowment's board chair. "Although he will be greatly missed, his extraordinary leadership put us in a strong position for the future."
The Chicago-based J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation has announced JANET FROETSCHER, former CEO of Special Olympics International, as its new president, in which role she will work closely with the Pritzkers to increase the foundation's impact, expand its investments, and drive results in its priority areas, including early childhood development, health care, and civil rights. Froetscher joins the foundation having served at the helm of global philanthropic and not-for-profit organizations for more than three decades, including stints as cEO of the National Safety Council, CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, and COO of the Aspen Institute.
The Coca-Cola Company has announced that HELEN SMITH PRICE will become vice president of global community affairs for the Coca-Cola Company and president of the Coca-Cola Foundation, effective April 16. Price, who joined the company in 1993 as corporate external affairs director and since 2001 has served as assistant vice president and group director of global community affairs and executive director of the Coca-Cola Foundation, will succeed LISA BORDERS, who left the company in March to become president of the WNBA. A native of Atlanta, Price currently serves on the boards of the Woodruff Arts Center's Alliance Theatre, the Villages at Carver Family YMCA, and the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals, and also serves on the Nominations Committee for the United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Corporate Contributions Council of the Conference Board.
Amalgamated Bank, the nation's leading progressive bank, has announced that ANNA FINK will join its Washington, D.C., office as first vice president for philanthropy and will be responsible for growing and serving a client base that is working to solve today's pressing issues. Fink comes to the bank with more than fifteen years of public policy advocacy and philanthropy experience, including service leading the Women's Equality Program at the Wyss Foundation, as a senior advisor for philanthropy and innovation at the AFL-CIO, and at the New World Foundation, where she oversaw grantmaking initiatives as a senior program officer.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has named RAHUL SINGHAL as its new chief risk officer, a position created in 2012 to strengthen risk management at the fund. Singhal, who has nearly thirty years of risk management experience in the financial services industry, joined the Global Fund in October 2015 as deputy chief risk officer and has been acting chief risk officer since January 2016. Prior to joining the fund, Singhal, who holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, served in numerous positions overseeing credit and market risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk for Bank of America.
The Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan, has named REGINA R. SMITH as managing director of its arts and culture program. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, with a master's degree in arts administration from Winthrop University, Smith has been with Kresge since 2008 as a program officer and senior program office and has been interim managing director of its arts and culture program since July 2015. Before joining the foundation, Smith worked at the Arts & Science Council in Charlotte, North Carolina; served as programs and services director at Culture Works in Dayton, Ohio; and managed a nationally recognized program for the Indiana Arts Commission.
The Walton Family Foundation has announced that TED KOWALSKI will join the environment program team as senior program officer, in which role he will lead the foundation's Colorado River basin initiative. Kowalski has dedicated his career to working on issues of water in the West, starting in the Colorado attorney general's office, where he worked on water rights, and moving on from there to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, where he served most recently as chief of the interstate, federal, and water information section.
The Meyer Foundation in Washington, D.C., has elected RAJIV VINNAKOTA, executive vice president for youth and engagement programs at the Aspen Institute, to a three-year term on its board. Before joining Aspen, where he oversees the organization's efforts to engage youth in tackling current issues, Vinnakota co-founded the SEED Foundation, a public foundation that opens and operates public college-preparatory boarding schools serving underserved students. An alumnus of Princeton, Vinnakota received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor bestowed by the university on an undergraduate alumnus, and is a past Echoing Green and Ashoka fellow.
The board of trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust has announced that ROBERT W. LOVELACE has joined the Getty's board. An executive with the Capital Group, which he joined in 1985, Lovelace serves as a director of the California Community Foundation, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Value Schools Foundation. He is, in addition, a founder of Vistamar School, a private independent high school in the South Bay region of Los Angeles.
In other news, the National Human Services Assembly (NHSA), a Washington, D.C.-based organization composed of nearly eighty national nonprofits, has announced that LEE SHERMAN will become president and CEO of both NHSA and National Assembly Business Services, Inc. (NABS), effective June 6. Sherman comes to NHSA with more than twenty-five years of executive-level experience in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors, most recently as president and CEO of the Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies. As incoming CEO, one of his responsibilities will be the continued implementation of NHSA's National Reframing Human Services Initiative, which seeks to build broader and deeper public support for human services and to improve public understanding of the important work being done by the sector. "The National Assembly's Reframing Initiative is the single best tool today for changing the conversation [around the human services sector]," Sherman said. "I look forward to working with the board and members of the National Assembly to impress upon the public the shared values that can ensure our communities move forward for all of their constituencies and participants."
