People

Alzheimer’s Association, California Southland Chapter (Los Angeles): Appointed Bettina Kurowski, chief executive officer of Kurowski & Company (Encino, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Arizona Humane Society (Phoenix): Appointed Kelsea Vescova, director of community relations and operations for the Marley Park community at DMB Associates (Scottsdale, Ariz.), to be director of marketing and development.

Chrysalis (Los Angeles): Appointed Mark Loranger, vice president of Chrysalis Enterprises, to be president and chief executive officer. The organization has also appointed Trevor Kale, director of operations at Chrysalis Enterprises, to be vice president of Chrysalis Enterprises. Chrysalis provides job opportunities for poor and homeless people.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Appointed Deborah Gribbon, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum and vice president of the J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles), to be interim director. Ms. Gribbon succeeds Timothy Rub, who is now the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

College Crusade of Rhode Island (Providence): Appointed Todd D. Flaherty, former Rhode Island deputy commissioner of education (Providence), to be interim president and chief executive officer.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Ark.): Appointed Don Bacigalupi, director and chief executive officer of the Toledo Museum of Art, to be director.

Fifth Avenue Theatre (Seattle): Announced the retirement of Marilynn Sheldon, managing director, effective in December.

OneWorld Health (San Francisco): Appointed Robert E. Farrell, president and chief financial officer of Titan Pharmaceuticals (South San Francisco), to be chief financial officer. This organization develops drugs for people in developing countries with neglected infectious diseases.

Pratt Institute (New York): Appointed Todd Michael Galitz, vice president of external affairs at the Asia Society (New York), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Refugees International (Washington): Announced the death of Kenneth H. Bacon, president, on August 15. He was 64.

Shawnee State U. (Portsmouth, Ohio): Appointed Eric Braun, a lawyer in Wilmington, N.C., to be director of its development foundation.

Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades (Media, Pa.): Appointed Peter J. D’Orazio, associate athletic director for advancement at La Salle U. (Philadelphia), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

YWCA of Bergen County (Ridgewood, N.J.): Appointed Jeanne M. Patrican, chief fund raiser at the Franklin Lakes Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Franklin Lakes Youth & Recreation Foundation (N.J.), to be director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Asia Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Nick Langton, the foundation’s representative in Nepal, to be country director in India, based in New Delhi.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Joe Cerrell, director of global health policy and advocacy, to be head of the foundation’s office in London, effective January 1, 2010.

California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Charles Fields, a program officer at the Marguerite Casey Foundation (Seattle), to be senior program officer for South Los Angeles.

Holland America Line (Seattle): Appointed Pamela Baade, manager of education and volunteer programs at the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation (Federal Way, Wash.), to be manager of corporate giving.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Sarah Marquardt, grants manager at St. Paul’s Grotto Foundation, to be program assistant for its environment program.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Appointed Yolanda Quesada, program director at the Western Union Foundation (Englewood, Colo.), to be managing director of its Latino Community Foundation.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed John McGuirk, director of the arts program at the James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco), to be director of the performing-arts program.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Joel Wittenberg, corporate vice president for treasury and investor relations at the Kellogg Company (Battle Creek), to be vice president and chief investment officer. Mr. Wittenberg succeeds Paul Lawler, who has retired.