October 13, 2017 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Susan G. Komen
Paula Schneider has been tapped as president and CEO of the organization, which supports breast-cancer research. She begins her new job November 6. She founded and has led a global brand-development consulting firm in Los Angeles since 2013. Ms. Schneider, a breast-cancer survivor, also lost her mother to the disease in 2010.
Ellen Wilmott has served as interim chief executive since the departure of Judy Salerno last year and will stay on for several months to help with the transition. [Editor’s note: The previous sentence has been revised because we incorrectly stated that Ms. Wilmott would return to her role as general counsel.]
7 Hills Homeless Center
Jessica Andrews, who was most recently the executive director of Community Venture Foundation, has started as chief executive of this charity in Fayetteville, Ark. She replaces Billy Rader, who plans to step down.
John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
Andrew Koch, chief operating officer, has been promoted to president of this nonprofit advisory group for colleges and universities. He succeeds the co-founder John Gardner, who has become chair and chief executive officer.
Los Angeles Housing Partnership
David Grunwald, chief business development officer and executive director of United Cerebral Palsy Wheels for Humanity, has come on board as executive director.
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
Tim McChristian, executive director of the African Leadership Foundation, has been appointed executive director. He succeeds Joseph Patuleia, who will continue to work on special projects as executive director emeritus through September 2018.
Overlook Foundation
Clelia Biamonti is now executive director of this fundraising arm of the Overlook Medical Center, in Summit, N.J. Previously she was a senior principal at Blue Fin Group, a health-care consulting company. Ms. Biamonti follows Ann Oliva, who has retired after 27 years in the role.
Tinker Foundation
Caroline Boyd Kronley, managing director of strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, will join the foundation as president before year’s end. She will succeed Renate Rennie, who is retiring after 45 years at the foundation.
Other notable appointments:
Suresh Bhat, chief financial officer at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, has been appointed chief financial officer of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Phyllis Caudill, associate vice president for philanthropy at Christian Appalachian Project, has been promoted to vice president for philanthropy.
Richard Loomis, head of marketing at Disney Channels Worldwide, has been named chief marketing officer at the Nature Conservancy.
Jane Nicholson, manager of institutional giving at Chicago Public Media/WBEZ, has joined ProPublica Illinois as director of development.
Judilee Reed has become the program director of Creative Communities at the William Penn Foundation. Previously she was director of the Thriving Cultures program at the Surdna Foundation.
Legacies
Holly Block, the former executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, died of breast cancer on October 6. She was 58. She made the decision to give museum visitors free admission and led a $25 million capital campaign to expand the museum before stepping down last year but continued serving on its Board of Trustees until her death.
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