Business, community leaders named to Art Museum board
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The Worcester Art Museum has a new board president and five new board of trustees members.
The Worcester Art Museum has five new board of trustees members and a new president following the trustees’ annual meeting Tuesday.
Lisa Kirby Gibbs of Worcester will be the next president of the board, taking over from Joseph J. Bafaro, Jr., who completed his board term.
Gibbs served as chair of the Museum’s Audience Engagement Committee and sponsored free admission during the month of August for the past three years through The Kirby Foundation, of which she is CEO and Trustee.
“It is our responsibility, on a high level, to make sure the institution takes care of the collection and, through programming and engagement, remains relevant and accessible to a broad range of people,” she said in a statement.
Gibbs also serves on the boards of numerous other Worcester cultural and community organizations. She is the owner of WorkCentral, an office business center in Westborough, and consults as a career management and leadership coach.
There will also be five new trustees: Susan M. Bassick, Andrew T. Jay, Dana R. Levenson, Ronald L. Lombard, and Anne-Marie Soullière.
Bassick is an active community volunteer, participating in number of organizations in Paxton, including literacy and youth programs. She is passionate about art and education, and is a WAM docent alumna.
Jay is a Managing Partner at Siemens Venture Capital. He is active in the world of healthcare finance and has worked in investment banking in the past.
Levenson is President and CEO of Southgate at Shrewsbury. He previously worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of America, then went on to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the city of Chicago and more recently, MassDOT.
Lombard is the current owner of RL Ventures LLC, an independent consulting firm that provides executive-level service to clients. In the past, he co-founded Cybersheath Services International, LLC and Quantech Services Inc.
Soullière served as chief executive of the Fidelity Foundations and the Edward C. Johnson Fund from 1987-2014, and as a trustee of the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund since its inception in 1991.
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