Prudential and Wells Fargo Foundations Appoint New Leaders (Transitions)

Prudential Foundation

Shané Harris, vice president for corporate giving at Prudential Financial, is now president of the $154 million corporate foundation. She will oversee the financial company’s recently announced commitment to provide $35 million in grants and $145 million in loans and investments to improve access to education, training, and jobs for young people ages 15 to 29 worldwide over the next six years.

Nature Conservancy

Mark Tercek has stepped down as CEO of the environmental group after 11 years. He leaves just one week after the resignation of its president, Brian McPeek, continuing the fallout of an internal investigation into workplace sexual misconduct.

Sally Jewell, a member of the organization’s Board of Directors and the former U.S. secretary of the interior, will step in as interim CEO on September 3 while the board searches for the next leader.

In addition, Luis Solórzano, the group’s Caribbean program chief, is departing following years of documented complaints that he mistreated his staff, according to reports.

Raikes Foundation

Dennis Quirin, president of Neighborhood Funders Group, will become executive director of the $131 million foundation in September.

Wells Fargo Foundation

Brandee McHale, who most recently led the Citi Foundation, will now serve as president of the Wells Fargo Foundation, which has just announced a $1 billion pledge for affordable housing. She will take over on August 1. Its outgoing president, Jon Campbell, will stay on through the end of the year to help with the transition.

More New CEOs

Sarita Ahuja, vice president of operations, and Adriana Rocha, vice president of programs, both at the Neighborhood Funders Group, will serve as interim co-directors of that organization following Dennis Quirin’s departure in September.

Rebecca Gamble, co-director of the Heartwood Institute, has been named executive director of the Pittsburgh Schweitzer Fellows Program.

Fang Li has been tapped as director of the World Resources Institute’s office in China. Previously she served as deputy director general of the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office in China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

Elizabeth Lynch, grants manager and executive director of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, has been named executive director of the Cabot Family Charitable Trust, effective August 1. She succeeds Katherine McHugh, who is retiring.

Charlie Pagnam has been hired as chief philanthropy officer at the United States Golf Association and executive director of the USGA Foundation. Most recently, he was vice president for advancement and executive vice president of the UMass Foundation.

I Live Here I Give Here

This organization, which encourages local charitable giving in the Austin, Tex., area, has hired three new staff members.

Jerrica Deloney Witte has joined as director of strategy and programming. Most recently, she was director of education at the Austin Apartment Association.

Stacey Ingram Kaleh, chief communications officer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, has been hired as senior manager of marketing and communications.

Jessi Moon, director of philanthropy and communications at Evanston Community Foundation, will become senior director of development.

Other Notable Appointments

Andrew Burki, founder and director of public policy at Life of Purpose Treatment, has been named chief public policy officer at the Hanley Foundation.

Inimai Chettiar has joined the Coalition for Public Safety as federal legislative and policy director. Most recently she directed the justice program at the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice.

L. Blue Dean has been appointed executive director of library development for the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously she was executive director of development for Duke University’s department of medicine and the Duke Heart Center.

Ernie Glover, a science program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will join the $1.9 billion Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as program director this fall.

Lucy Kim will become vice president for development at the Brookings Institution in August. Kim comes to the think tank from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she is deputy vice dean of development.

Paul Martinez, an executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership, has been named chief leadership and human capital strategist at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Chakshu Patel, vice president in the strategy office at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has been appointed director of institutional advancement at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Jason Wu Trujillo has been named vice president for university advancement at the University of Dallas. Currently he is chief development officer at the University of Virginia Law School Foundation and director of its capital campaign.

Departures

Vu Le intends to step down as executive director of the Rainier Valley Corps before December. Le was featured in the Chronicle’s 40 Under 40 list in 2016.

Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, will retire in September 2020 at the conclusion of his contract. He will have led the organization for 22 years.

Legacy

Lewis Cullman, an investment banker and heir to the Benson & Hedges and Philip Morris tobacco companies, died on June 7. He was 100. With his second wife, Dorothy, the couple gave hundreds of millions of dollars through the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Foundation to cultural and educational institutions in New York, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Botanical Garden. Dorothy Cullman died in 2009.

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