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Past Leadership Teleconferences:
Theatre Facts 2007: Everything You Wanted To Know but Were Afraid To Ask!
A Presentation by Zannie Giraud Voss
Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm (EDT)
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Based on TCG’s annual fiscal survey, Theatre Facts provides three lenses through which to view the not-for-profit field’s attendance, performance and fiscal health. This comprehensive report is the only document analyzing the national not-for-profit theatre field and is a vital advocacy and policy tool for trustees, foundation and corporate executives, policy makers and the national press.
Speaker Biography
Zannie Giraud Voss is Chair and Professor of Arts Administration in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at SMU. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, she was a Professor in the Department of Theater Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Management Area of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she also served as Producing Director of Theater Previews at Duke, a professional theatre company that specializes in developing and co-producing new works that go on to have a life either on Broadway or in other nonprofit professional theatres. Zannie is a consultant for the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative/Cultural Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, Theatre Development Fund and Theater Communications Group, co-authoring TCG’s Theatre Facts since 1998. She has served as a site visitor and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an affiliate professorship at the Euromed School of Management in Marseille, France, and she has published research in journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, International Marketing Review and International Journal of Arts Management, for which she serves on the editorial board. Zannie is the co-recipient of research grants awarded by the National Science Foundation, Marketing Science Institute, American Marketing Association Foundation, the Sheth Foundation and the Aspen Institute, among others.
Panelist Biographies
Jennifer Bielstein (Managing Director) joined Actors Theatre of Louisville in the fall of 2006. She was recently elected to the boards of Partnership for Creative Economies, Arts and Cultural Attractions Council and National Coporate Theatre Fund. She is a member of the 2008 Leadership Louisville class. Ms. Bielstein moved from Chicago, Ill., where she served as Executive Director of Writers' Theatre. During her tenture there she opened a second venue and more than doubled the operations of the company including the programming, audiences and revenues. Previously she worked as Director of Marketing and Communications for Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she was responsible for almost $6 million in annual revenues through ticket sales
Ms. Bielstein also worked for About Face Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre and Lincoln Park Zoo where she helped to create and launch the successful Jammin' at the Zoo series in 1994. Ms. Bielstein served as an officer of the Board of the League of Chicago Theatres representing almost 200 area theatres, and as chair of the League's Marketing Committee through which she spearheaded development of a city-wide program to introduce new audiences to theatre, called Theatre Thursdays. She was on the board of the Glencoe Chamber of Commerce and About Face Theatre, where she co-chaired the Strategic Planning and Facilities Committee, was Secretary of the Producers Association of Chicago-Area Theatres and served as a review panelist for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
Ms. Bielstein is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in business administration and theatre and has spoken on panels for the American Marketing Association, the Arts and Business Council of Chicago, Roosevelt University, Illinois Theatre Association, League of Chicago Theatres Annual Conference, School of the Art Institute and Kellogg School of Business.
Susan Medak has served as Berkeley Repertory Theatre's managing director since 1990, leading the administration and operations of the Theatre. She is president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and has been an officer on the board of Theatre Communications Group (TCG). Medak is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. She has served in an advisory capacity for the Joyce Foundation, has participated extensively on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts as well as for the Massachusetts Arts Council. Closer to home, Medak is a commissioner of the Downtown Business Improvement District, former vice president of the Downtown Berkeley Association, and the founding chair of the Berkeley Arts in Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Unified School District and the Berkeley Cultural Trust. Medak is a graduate of Lawrence University. Prior to her move to California, Medak worked at The Guthrie Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Northlight Theater and People's Light and Theater Company. She is a proud member of the Mont Blanc Ladies' Literary Guild and Trekking Society.
The Contributed Income Quest: New Strategies to Maximize Results
A Conversation with Dory Vanderhoof
Wednesday, June 25, 2:00pm (EDT)
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Speaker Biography
A Senior Partner for Genovese, Vanderhoof & Associates since 1989, Dory Vanderhoof has assisted more than 200 arts, culture and heritage institutions throughout North America.
As a management consultant to San Francisco Opera, working for General Director Lotfi Mansouri from 1988 to 2001, Dory Vanderhoof, in partnership with Margaret Genovese, introduced a multi-year strategic and operational planning process, recruited members of the senior management team, served as interim development director, developed operating strategies for the integration of the income functions and developed the organization and growth plan for the development program, that facilitated the growth of the opera company’s contributed revenue from $11 million to $28 million and the organization’s growth from a $24 million to a $58 million operation.
In order to increase individual philanthropy in Canada, Mr. Vanderhoof introduced reforms to the Government of Canada for the tax treatment of gifts of appreciable property. This tax reform legislation has stimulated hundreds of millions of dollars for Canadian charities and become a permanent part of the Canadian Tax code.
Considered a leading executive recruiter of Ballet Artistic Directors, Opera General Directors, Museum Directors, Cultural Institution Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officers and Development and Marketing Directors, he has influenced the success of the arts through the placement of talented professionals who are capable of developing and fulfilling the organization’s mission in partnership with their respective communities.
With Margaret Genovese, Mr. Vanderhoof has introduced the concept that multi-year strategic and operational planning is the most important ingredient for institutional success, development and growth. To this end, he has assisted numerous clients to fulfil their mission, stabilize and grow their institutions through the introduction of a planning process that combines dynamic income maximization programs with considered artistic vision and achievement.
As a recognized leading professional in the field of philanthropy, he has served as a campaign planner and periodic fundraising counsel for clients’ capital, endowment and operating campaigns up to $250 million. His work has earned for Genovese, Vanderhoof an international reputation for its consistent track record of greatly increasing the level of client’s contributed support.
Prior to forming Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates, Dory Vanderhoof served as Director of Development for the Canadian Opera Company (1978-1989) where he was instrumental in the growth of the company from $2.4 to $15 million. During that period, the COC’s Development Department was considered the model for the Canadian Cultural Sector, introducing new techniques and programs to Canada, which lead to the development of the largest corporate sponsorship program, individual patron and major gifts programs in the country.
Dory is proud of being part of the senior management team that introduced “Surtitles” to opera, a process that is currently embraced by every major opera company throughout the world and is credited for opera’s ever expanding audience reach.
After receiving his BA in Music from Bucknell University and his MBA from the special arts management institute of the State University of New York, Dory worked as a Music Program Analyst Intern for the New York State Council on the Arts.
Dory has served as the Director of the Professional Opera Companies of Canada (now Opera.ca), and as a board member of Opera Atelier, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives (Association of Fund Raising Professionals), the Association of Cultural Executives, League of Historic American Theatres and as a member of Canada Council’s National Tax Task Force. He has been a panellist for the Ohio State Arts Council and the Canada Council and a faculty member of Confederation College and the University of Waterloo. He is proud of having trained more than 200 arts professionals through the University of Waterloo and Cultural Careers Council Ontario “Income Managers Program” which he founded with partner Margaret Genovese.
Trained as a saxophonist, music director and arranger, Dory has played back-up for many artists including, Bobby Rydell, the Coasters, the Drifters, the Platters and Little Anthony and the Imperials. He fondly recalls his time spent as music director of BJRE (Bucknell Jazz and Rock Ensemble) on the bus touring Europe and North America.
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Perspectives on the Economy
A Conversation with Robert Rubin
Thursday, April 17 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm (EDT).
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Speaker Biography
Robert E. Rubin is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citi and has been involved with financial markets and our nation’s public policy debate all of his professional life.
Mr. Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York City in 1966. Mr. Rubin served as Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987-1990 and as Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. Before joining Goldman, he was an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City.
Mr. Rubin, long active in national and New York City’s public affairs, joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the newly-created National Economic Council. Under Mr. Rubin’s guidance, the NEC oversaw the Administration’s domestic and international economic policymaking process, coordinated economic policy recommendations to the President and monitored the implementation of the President’s economic policy goals.
From 1995-1999, Mr. Rubin served as our nation’s 70th Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Rubin played a leading role in many of the nation’s most important policy debates. He was involved in balancing the federal budget; opening trade policy to further globalization; acting to stem financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia; helping to resolve the impasse between the Congress and the Executive Branch over the public debt limit; safeguarding the nation’s currency against counterfeiting; and guiding sensible reforms at the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1999, Mr. Rubin joined Citi as Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Citi is the leading global financial services company and does business in more than 100 countries.
Mr. Rubin is the Chairman of the Board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) which is the nation’s leading community development support organization with 38 offices nationwide. At the White House and Treasury, Mr. Rubin was a leading advocate for policy actions that met the need for economic development in the Nation’s distressed urban and rural areas.
Mr. Rubin also serves on the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2000, he became a member of the Advisory Board of Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based private-equity investment firm that specializes in e-commerce business-to-business companies. He is also a member of the Harvard Corporation. In 2003, he was named Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007, he was named Co-Chairman.
In 2006, Mr. Rubin was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
Mr. Rubin is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington [Random House, 2003, with Jacob Weisberg], which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Week’s ten best business books of the year.
Mr. Rubin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1960 with an A.B. in economics. He received a L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1964 and attended the London School of Economics. He was born in New York City in 1938 and is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two adult sons, James and Philip.
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