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Strategic, financial and operations leader with a successful track record spanning major arts, education and health care nonprofits—including complex financial challenges, major new program initiatives, organizational re-engineering, endowment performance, grant development, and asset and debt management.• Strategic planning leader and vision steward – Partnered closely at CEO and board level on major strategic change initiatives and ongoing administrative/financial leadership to further long-term goals.• Organizational architect – Built from the ground up and overhauled nonprofit financial organizations developing effective strategy, process/governance best practices, and consistent operating surpluses.• Astute endowment and asset manager – Carefully balanced endowment disbursement needs and preservation imperatives through up and down cycles, employing sophisticated debt tools, state-of-the-art benchmarking, and development/management of high performing outside money manager talent.• Partnership, government relations, communications leader – Played key role in mission-critical museum/education partner organization merger; built city, state and regulatory comity on expansion, real estate asset deals and financial/governance matters; and took on public affairs communications leadership.