92nd Street Y Selects Real-Estate Developer as Next CEO (Transitions)

92nd Street Y

Seth Pinsky will become CEO on January 1. Currently he is an executive vice president of RXR Realty, which develops commercial, retail, and residential real estate in New York. Until 2013, he led the New York City Economic Development Corporation for 10 years.

He succeeds Henry Timms, who became president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the spring.

Andrus Family Fund

Manuela Arciniegas, interim director since January, was appointed to the leadership role permanently. She was previously program officer at this family fund, which is part of the $1 billion Surdna Foundation.

Kansas Health Foundation

Reginald Robinson, vice chancellor for public affairs at the University of Kansas, has been named president and CEO of the $516 million grant maker in Wichita, effective December 1.

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Chad Smith, chief operating officer at the performing-arts group, has been promoted to CEO. He succeeds Simon Woods, who abruptly departed in September.

More New CEOs

Daniel Bresette, vice president for policy at the Alliance to Save Energy, where he also served as the executive director of its Energy-Efficient Codes Coalition, has joined the Environmental and Energy Study Institute as executive director. He succeeds Carol Werner, who has been with the organization for 32 years and will remain working there as a senior fellow.

Katherine Crawford Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, will become director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, beginning January 2. She succeeds Kaywin Feldman, who left in March to become the director of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington.

Yolanda Seals-Coffield, a principal and chief employment counsel at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been named president of the PwC Charitable Foundation. She succeeds Shannon Schuyler, who will now serve as the company’s chief purpose and inclusion officer.

Joshua Walker, global head of strategic initiatives and Japan at the Eurasia Group, will be the next president and CEO of the Japan Society, effective December 2. He will succeed Motoatsu Sakurai, who is retiring after 10 years in the role.

Stelter Company

The company’s co-owners Larry Stelter, president, and Peggy Fisher, CEO, are retiring from their planned-giving consulting firm.

Bev Hutney, chief operating officer, has been promoted to CEO.

Michael Hutney has been promoted to chief client strategy officer from director of business development.

Nathan Stelter has been named president of the company, and Jeremy Stelter will now serve as executive vice president. They are both sons of Larry Stelter.

University of Hawaii Foundation

The university has made changes to its business school’s fundraising staff.

Dani Douglass, marketing and communications manager at St. Andrew’s Schools, has joined the university as director of alumni and development communications at the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii at Menoa.

Nina Horioka, associate director of development for the Shidler College of Business, has been promoted to director of development at the business school.

Bianca Mordasini, director of alumni engagement for the Shidler College of Business, has been promoted to senior director of alumni engagement for the Shidler College of Business and the Travel Industry Management School.

Grant-Maker Moves

Rashida Bumbray will serve as the inaugural director of culture and art at the Open Society Foundations. She has worked at the grant maker as senior program manager of its Arts Exchange since 2015.

Stephen Everett, a special projects leader at the Midwest AIDS Training + Education Center Indiana, has returned to the Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis as vice president for programs. He previously worked at the foundation from 2003 until 2010.

Aaron Seybert, a social investment officer at the Kresge Foundation, has been promoted to managing director of the foundation’s Social Investment Practice.

Katie Tetrault has been promoted to vice president for finance and grants management at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has worked at the $2.7 billion foundation since 2010, most recently as director of finance and grants management.

Sophy Yem, grants manager at the Surdna Foundation, has been promoted to program officer for philanthropy.

Other Notable Appointments

Sally Bickerton, director of leadership gifts at the California Institute of the Arts, has been named associate director for development at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Natalie Coles, chief development officer at Flying Horse Farms, a camp for seriously ill children and their families, has been named vice president for advancement and chief development officer at Wilberforce University.

Andrew Ickes, associate director of development for leadership gifts at Virginia Tech, has been promoted to director of development at the university’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.

Michael Kelley, director of development for university research at Northwestern University, has been named director of development at the Discovery Partners Institute, a research institute led by the University of Illinois Foundation.

Tony Tian-Ren Lin, director of fellows and a research scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, will now be vice president of institutional advancement and research at the New York Theological Seminary.

Karl Miller Lugo, a managing associate at Bentz Whaley Flessner where he focused on capital campaigns and major gifts, has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Departures

Katherine Lorenz, CEO of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation since 2011, intends to step down, pending the selection of a successor.

Legacies

Deborah Marrow, who retired as director of the Getty Foundation at the end of 2018, died on October 1 at age 70. She had worked at the J. Paul Getty Trust since 1983, and was promoted to director of the foundation in 1989, when it was known as the Getty Grant Program.

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M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.