October 3, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
Background: In November, Ms. Bradley, 42, will assume her new role at the San Francisco social-change organization, which makes grants and provides fiscal-sponsorship and other services to charities. She served on the organization’s Board of Directors for six years, which she thinks will help ease the transition when Drummond Pike, Tides’s founder, steps down after 34 years. “Because people know me, there’s a lesser level of anxiety,” she says. “It’s going to allow us to get things moving and chart a new direction a lot quicker.”
Previous jobs: Ms. Bradley started New Capitalist, a venture-capital firm that has invested more than $20-million in minority-owned businesses. She is also the founder of the Entrepreneurial Development Institute, a youth-entrepreneurship organization.
Education: She received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in business administration from American University.
Her agenda: Ms. Bradley’s first goal is to remind people of all that Tides does. “People who have known us have come to think of us as being able to do one or two things really well,” she says, “when indeed we’ve expanded the suite of services to do many things very well.” She also wants to help the organization increase its use of new technologies and reach out to new audiences.
Salary: $275,000
What she’s reading: Ms. Bradley says she and her twin 3-year-old daughters read Not All Princesses Dress in Pink every night.
