Information Record | Metropolis of Sarasota
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 24, 2022
CONTACT: Ashley Bauman; [email protected] | 239-404-1214
(Sarasota, FL) – Van Wezel Basis and the Metropolis of Sarasota are happy to announce the group members who will serve on the architect choice activity pressure for the Sarasota Performing Arts Heart. The 5 distinguished members of the duty pressure carry a breadth of expertise, ardour, and a dedication to realizing the promise of this transformative mission for Sarasota and the area.
The duty pressure will likely be chaired by Dr. Jenne Ok. Britell, Vice Chair Van Wezel Basis Board of Administrators. Dr. Britell has been an acclaimed director and trustee of public corporations and personal organizations for over 20 years, following a global profession as a senior officer of a number of monetary establishments, together with GE Capital, and Chairman of United Leases. The duty pressure contains Mary Bensel, Govt Director of The Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor and member of the Broadway League and Florida Presenters; Mark Famiglio, co-founder of Sarasota Movie Pageant, a 50-year Sarasotan, and investor within the improvement and progress of a lot of Sarasota’s neighborhoods; Michele Hooper, CEO of the Administrators Council and extremely regarded governance knowledgeable and enterprise chief just lately named to Forbes 50/50 Ladies Making an Impression; and Dr. Larry R. Thompson, long-time President of Ringling Faculty of Artwork and Design who efficiently led the creation of the Sarasota Artwork Museum and served because the founding govt director of the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Museum.
“The humanities have the magic and the ability to remodel lives and communities at each degree. I’ve seen this energy as a participant in related giant scale cultural initiatives elsewhere. Now I’m honored to carry this expertise house –to Sarasota,” mentioned Process Power Chair, Dr. Jenne Ok. Britell.
The RFP will likely be issued by the Metropolis via their BidSync public system to draw nationwide curiosity from a broad and various variety of respondents. The architect choice course of is estimated to take six months and will likely be funded via an appropriation from the State of Florida. The conferences of the duty pressure will likely be open to the general public and the choice course of will culminate in a brief record of finalists who will come to Sarasota to current their {qualifications}.
“This can be a once-in-a-generation mission for the Metropolis of Sarasota and as such, probably the most achieved and skilled professionals have been included within the architect choice activity pressure,” mentioned Metropolis of Sarasota Supervisor Marlon Brown. “This group understands how vital a brand new performing arts middle is to the legacy of Sarasota. I’m trying ahead to working intently with them as we transfer via the proposal course of.”
“We’re lucky to have such a prestigious group of group leaders that may assist create an iconic image for Sarasota,” mentioned Cheryl Mendelson, CEO of the Van Wezel Basis. “With the opening of the primary part of the Bay Park, we’re an vital step nearer to fulfilling the promise of the greater than 18,000 group members throughout the area who shared with us their aspirations for a brand new performing arts middle.”
The orientation assembly of the architect choice activity pressure will happen on October 31, 2022.
Process Power Members:
Dr. Jenne Ok. Britell
Chair, Architect Choice Process Power
Vice Chair of Board, Sarasota Performing Arts Heart Basis, Inc.
Bio: Dr. Jenne Britell has been an acclaimed director and trustee of public corporations and personal organizations for over 20 years, following a profitable profession as a senior officer of various monetary establishments, together with GE Capital. Retired because the Chairman of United Leases, Dr. Britell is at present a director of Ocwen Monetary Company and Zenbusiness.com. Dr. Britell has beforehand served on different public firm Boards, together with TIAA-CREF, Lincoln Monetary and Quest Diagnostics, in addition to having beforehand served on various nonprofit arts, housing, and training boards, together with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, the New York Metropolis Housing Partnership, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Santa Fe Opera. In 2011, Dr. Britell was chosen because the Nationwide Affiliation of Company Administrators’ (NACD) Director of the Yr. She is a member of the Council on International Relations and a member of the advisory board of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Heart for the Research of Invention and Innovation. Dr. Britell additionally has two printed case research from Harvard Enterprise Faculty highlighting her work with United Leases.
Mary Bensel
Govt Director, The Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor
Bio: Mary Bensel has been govt director of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor for over 14 years. She served as common supervisor of the Barbara Mann Corridor in Ft. Myers, the Walnut Road and Merriam Theaters in Philadelphia; and reserving director for Troika Leisure, a producer of Touring Broadway Reveals. Bensel is a Tony-Voter, member of the Broadway League, Florida Presenters, board member of Florida Venue Managers and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota. Beneath Bensel’s route, Van Wezel was named the #1 theater in its measurement worldwide and went from having working losses to incomes surpluses of over a million {dollars} pre-COVID.
Mark Famiglio
Board Member, Sarasota Performing Arts Heart Basis, Inc.
Bio: Mark Famiglio is concerned with actual property, development, finance, data know-how, aviation, and biologics. A 50-year Sarasotan and graduate of New Faculty, he’s lively locally and in philanthropic causes in southwest Florida and past. Mark has been a serious supporter of the Florida State College Faculty of Medication and The Ringling Museum, the place areas have been named in his honor. He has owned and rehabilitated quite a few vital historic buildings and is a co-founding producer and chairman of the Sarasota Movie Pageant. He has served on the opera and ballet boards in addition to having served as president of United Cerebral Palsy. He’s a longtime supporter of the Van Wezel Basis; varied kids’s companies organizations in addition to being a previous trustee of the Financial Growth Company of Manatee County.
Michele Hooper
Board Member, Sarasota Performing Arts Heart Basis, Inc.
Bio: Michele J. Hooper is president and CEO of The Administrators’ Council, which consults with main corporations on board effectiveness and company board of director recruitment, targeted totally on various candidates. She is an audit committee monetary knowledgeable with over 30 years of expertise chairing the audit committees of a number of main corporations and is a extremely regarded governance knowledgeable and enterprise chief. In 2017, Ms. Hooper was chosen because the Nationwide Affiliation of Company Administrators’ Director of the Yr. This 12 months, she was named to Forbes Journal’s 50 Over 50 Impression record. Ms. Hooper at present serves on the boards of administrators of UnitedHealth Group as lead unbiased director and United Airways the place she chairs the Audit Committee. Ms. Hooper is vice chair of the Smithsonian Establishment’s Nationwide Board, and a member of the boards of Van Wezel Basis in addition to West Coast Black Theater Troupe.
Dr. Larry R. Thompson
President, Ringling Faculty of Artwork and Design
Bio: Dr. Larry R. Thompson, president of Ringling Faculty of Artwork and Design since July 1999, champions the necessity for companies to embrace creativity to thrive within the 21st century international economic system. A lawyer and an educator, Thompson beforehand served as Particular Assistant to the President of The Ohio State College; CEO of Flint Cultural Heart; and the founding Govt Director of Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and Museum. Dr. Thompson is former President of the Affiliation of Unbiased Schools of Artwork and Design (AICAD) and at present serves on its Govt Committee; is the previous Chair of the President’s Council of the Unbiased Schools and Universities of Florida (ICUF); and serves on the boards of many native arts and civic organizations. Dr. Thompson has been the recipient of quite a few tutorial and humanitarian honors and awards for his service as a visionary chief and educator.
On April 4, 2022, The Van Wezel Basis and the Sarasota Metropolis Fee fashioned a partnership for the planning, financing, design, and development of the brand new Sarasota Performing Arts Heart situated on the coronary heart of the Bay Park grasp plan. The Van Wezel Basis is proud to associate with the town of Sarasota and the Bay Park Conservancy to carry this thrilling new dream to life.
Please go to http://vwfoundation.org/ for extra data.
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