Teleconference Archives
Past Leadership Teleconferences:
The Contributed Income Quest: New Strategies to Maximize Results
A Conversation with Dory Vanderhoof
Wednesday, June 25, 2:00pm (EDT)
Speaker Biography
A Senior Partner for Genovese, Vanderhoof & Associates since 1989, Dory Vanderhoof has assisted more than 200 arts, culture and heritage institutions throughout North America.
As a management consultant to San Francisco Opera, working for General Director Lotfi Mansouri from 1988 to 2001, Dory Vanderhoof, in partnership with Margaret Genovese, introduced a multi-year strategic and operational planning process, recruited members of the senior management team, served as interim development director, developed operating strategies for the integration of the income functions and developed the organization and growth plan for the development program, that facilitated the growth of the opera company’s contributed revenue from $11 million to $28 million and the organization’s growth from a $24 million to a $58 million operation.
In order to increase individual philanthropy in Canada, Mr. Vanderhoof introduced reforms to the Government of Canada for the tax treatment of gifts of appreciable property. This tax reform legislation has stimulated hundreds of millions of dollars for Canadian charities and become a permanent part of the Canadian Tax code.
Considered a leading executive recruiter of Ballet Artistic Directors, Opera General Directors, Museum Directors, Cultural Institution Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officers and Development and Marketing Directors, he has influenced the success of the arts through the placement of talented professionals who are capable of developing and fulfilling the organization’s mission in partnership with their respective communities.
With Margaret Genovese, Mr. Vanderhoof has introduced the concept that multi-year strategic and operational planning is the most important ingredient for institutional success, development and growth. To this end, he has assisted numerous clients to fulfil their mission, stabilize and grow their institutions through the introduction of a planning process that combines dynamic income maximization programs with considered artistic vision and achievement.
As a recognized leading professional in the field of philanthropy, he has served as a campaign planner and periodic fundraising counsel for clients’ capital, endowment and operating campaigns up to $250 million. His work has earned for Genovese, Vanderhoof an international reputation for its consistent track record of greatly increasing the level of client’s contributed support.
Prior to forming Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates, Dory Vanderhoof served as Director of Development for the Canadian Opera Company (1978-1989) where he was instrumental in the growth of the company from $2.4 to $15 million. During that period, the COC’s Development Department was considered the model for the Canadian Cultural Sector, introducing new techniques and programs to Canada, which lead to the development of the largest corporate sponsorship program, individual patron and major gifts programs in the country.
Dory is proud of being part of the senior management team that introduced “Surtitles” to opera, a process that is currently embraced by every major opera company throughout the world and is credited for opera’s ever expanding audience reach.
After receiving his BA in Music from Bucknell University and his MBA from the special arts management institute of the State University of New York, Dory worked as a Music Program Analyst Intern for the New York State Council on the Arts.
Dory has served as the Director of the Professional Opera Companies of Canada (now Opera.ca), and as a board member of Opera Atelier, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives (Association of Fund Raising Professionals), the Association of Cultural Executives, League of Historic American Theatres and as a member of Canada Council’s National Tax Task Force. He has been a panellist for the Ohio State Arts Council and the Canada Council and a faculty member of Confederation College and the University of Waterloo. He is proud of having trained more than 200 arts professionals through the University of Waterloo and Cultural Careers Council Ontario “Income Managers Program” which he founded with partner Margaret Genovese.
Trained as a saxophonist, music director and arranger, Dory has played back-up for many artists including, Bobby Rydell, the Coasters, the Drifters, the Platters and Little Anthony and the Imperials. He fondly recalls his time spent as music director of BJRE (Bucknell Jazz and Rock Ensemble) on the bus touring Europe and North America.
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Perspectives on the Economy: A Conversation with Robert Rubin
Thursday, April 17 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm (EDT).
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Speaker Biography
Robert E. Rubin is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citi and has been involved with financial markets and our nation’s public policy debate all of his professional life.
Mr. Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York City in 1966. Mr. Rubin served as Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987-1990 and as Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. Before joining Goldman, he was an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City.
Mr. Rubin, long active in national and New York City’s public affairs, joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the newly-created National Economic Council. Under Mr. Rubin’s guidance, the NEC oversaw the Administration’s domestic and international economic policymaking process, coordinated economic policy recommendations to the President and monitored the implementation of the President’s economic policy goals.
From 1995-1999, Mr. Rubin served as our nation’s 70th Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Rubin played a leading role in many of the nation’s most important policy debates. He was involved in balancing the federal budget; opening trade policy to further globalization; acting to stem financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia; helping to resolve the impasse between the Congress and the Executive Branch over the public debt limit; safeguarding the nation’s currency against counterfeiting; and guiding sensible reforms at the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1999, Mr. Rubin joined Citi as Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Citi is the leading global financial services company and does business in more than 100 countries.
Mr. Rubin is the Chairman of the Board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) which is the nation’s leading community development support organization with 38 offices nationwide. At the White House and Treasury, Mr. Rubin was a leading advocate for policy actions that met the need for economic development in the Nation’s distressed urban and rural areas.
Mr. Rubin also serves on the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2000, he became a member of the Advisory Board of Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based private-equity investment firm that specializes in e-commerce business-to-business companies. He is also a member of the Harvard Corporation. In 2003, he was named Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007, he was named Co-Chairman.
In 2006, Mr. Rubin was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
Mr. Rubin is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington [Random House, 2003, with Jacob Weisberg], which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Week’s ten best business books of the year.
Mr. Rubin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1960 with an A.B. in economics. He received a L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1964 and attended the London School of Economics. He was born in New York City in 1938 and is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two adult sons, James and Philip.
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