World Vision Names New CEO; Skalak Leaving Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

World Vision United States

Edgar Sandoval has been named president and chief executive officer. He has been chief operating officer there for three years, and before that he worked at Procter and Gamble in several leadership positions. He will start October 1, assuming the duties of Richard Stearns, who announced his retirement in January. (See a Chronicle article about World Vision broadening its mission.)

Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

Thomas Skalak, the grant maker’s founding executive director, stepped down May 31. He plans to pursue scientific opportunities as an artist in residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation

Elizabeth Duggal has been installed as deputy director and chief operating officer. She was previously the deputy director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Philippe Vergne, the museum’s director since 2014, will leave at the end of his contract next March.

More New CEOs

Steve Lewis, executive director of the University YMCA in Seattle, has been selected as the executive director of the Seattle chapter of Friends of the Children.

Whitney Namm Pollack, interim executive director of the EB Research Partnership, has been named Project Sunshine’s new executive director.

Bob Sutton, executive vice president for human resources at Avera Health, has been promoted to president and CEO of this nonprofit health-care system in Sioux Falls, S.D. He succeeds John Porter, who is retiring after 44 years at the organization.

James Tracy, head of school at the Rocky Hill School, will serve as the first president of the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning, which is opening on July 1. This nonprofit organization is spinning off of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to offer continuing education for teachers.

Other Notable Appointments

Ron Aloni, chief financial officer at the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, has been appointed chief financial and operations officer at Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.

Tara Flynn, director of development at Loyola Marymount University’s College of Communication and Fine Arts in Los Angeles, was named the director of development at the Preservation Society of Newport County, in Rhode Island.

Matthew Haag has been appointed vice president for development and alumni relations for Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, effective September 10. Haag previously served as the associate vice president of clinical, research, and academic development at the University of Rochester and the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Darius Graham has joined the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation as program director, responsible for the foundation’s philanthropic strategy for Baltimore. He previously founded DC Social Innovation Project.

Samira Sine, a writer and producer at the BBC’s World Business Report, Reuters TV, and the Huffington Post, has become New York director at Common Sense. This organization maintains online databases for parents looking for content summaries and reviews of educational resources, movies, television shows, apps, and books for kids.

Mia Vukojević, a program officer for the Issues Affecting Women Programme at the Oak Foundation, based in Geneva, has joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as program director for the Pivotal Place: Western Balkans program.

Departures

Tino Hernandez, president and CEO of Samaritan Daytop Village, which provides services people struggling with addiction, homelessness, and mental illness in New York, will step down this summer. He has led the organization for 10 years.

Holly Johnson, president of the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation for the past six years, will step down from her role on August 3.

Paige Patterson, president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was dismissed this week following a board investigation into how he handed a sexual-abuse inquiry while leading another organization.

Martha Robles, executive director of Catholic Charities Community Services of Rockland since 2006, plans to retire on July 20.

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