Nashville Ballet Selects Its Artistic Director to Be Chief Executive; More Nonprofit Personnel Changes Announced

Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Maykao Y. Hang, director of children and family services, to be president. She succeeds Tom Kingston, who is retiring.

Babson College (Babson Park, Mass.): Appointed Deborah J. Sinay, senior vice president and chief development officer at United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (Boston), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Education Writers Association (Washington): Appointed Caroline W. Hendrie, a managing editor at Education Week (Bethesda, Md.), to be executive director. She succeeds Lisa Walker, who is retiring.

FEGS Health and Human Services System (New York): Appointed Michael Ostroff, owner of his own fund-raising consulting firm in Boca Raton, Fla., to be chief development officer. (This corrects information that appeared in the May 6 issue.)

Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed Lawrence E. Sullivan, professor of theology and anthropology at the U. of Notre Dame (Ind.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Thomas Beech, who is retiring.

Florida Philanthropic Network (Winter Park): Appointed David Biemesderfer, vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Katie Ensign, who will become a senior program officer at the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (Washington): Appointed Shireen Zaman, director for the Middle East and North Africa region at Vital Voices Global Partnership (Washington), to be executive director. This research organization studies United States domestic and foreign policy, with a focus on the American Muslim community.

Nashville Ballet: Appointed Paul Vasterling, artistic director, to also be chief executive officer. He succeeds Andrea Dillenburg, who is leaving to become vice president of external affairs at the Nashville Symphony.

New College Foundation (Sarasota, Fla.): Appointed Dennis L. Stover, vice president for resource and program development at the Senior Friendship Centers (Sarasota), to be vice president of philanthropy.

Peirce College (Philadelphia): Appointed Charles A. Wright III, vice president for development at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Prisoner Entrepreneurship Program (Houston): Appointed Bert Smith, principal at Inwood Management (Houston), to be chief executive officer. He succeeds Catherine Rohr, who has resigned. This organization provides inmates with business education and mentoring from business leaders.

Public Agenda (New York): Announced the retirement of Ruth A. Wooden, president, effective December 31.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.): Appointed Brenda Wilson-Hale, chief executive of the Washington State U. Foundation (Pullman), to be vice president for institute advancement.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Phoenix: Appointed Tamara Bohannon, director of resource development at St. Francis Xavier Parish (Phoenix), to be development director.

Touro College (New York): Appointed Eric Levine, senior vice president for development at the Jewish Federations of North America (New York), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

United Way of Metropolitan Nashville: Appointed Ed LeMieux, director of sales and marketing at Rentokil Initial (London), to be senior director of fund raising and marketing.

Grant Makers

Alcoa Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Paula Davis, vice president of corporate communications at the Pepsi Bottling Group (Somers, N.Y.), to be president. She succeeds Meg McDonald, who left to become chief executive officer of the Australian Carbon Trust (Brisbane).

Bush Foundation: (St. Paul): Appointed Stephanie Andrews, former deputy commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget (St. Paul), to be manager of its Teacher Effectiveness Initiative.

College Access Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Victor Garcia, outreach director for the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the U. of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be a program officer.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (New York): Appointed Peter Goodwin, former vice president of national-program affairs at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.), to be chief operating officer and treasurer.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (Tucson): Appointed Martha Gilliland, former chancellor of the U. of Missouri at Kansas City, to be vice president.

X Prize Foundation (Playa Vista, Calif.): Appointed Grant Campany, former vice president of business development at PPD Discovery (Wilmington, N.C.), to be senior director of the Archon Genomics X Prize, which challenges individuals to build a device capable of sequencing 100 genomes within 10 days for less than $10,000 per genome.