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Anthony Knerr
Anthony
Knerr is Managing Director of Anthony Knerr & Associates.
He was earlier Executive Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of Columbia University and Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning of the City University of New York. He was previously Special Assistant for Budget and Planning to the Acting President of Yale University; an Associate with the consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton; a Program Officer with the International Exchange Program; a Teaching Associate at Indiana University; and a Teacher at Milton Academy.
Dr. Knerr has taught English Literature at Columbia College, Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, English Literature at Indiana University, Philosophy at Yale University and Public Policy at the New School. He has written and published widely on strategy, non-profit organizations, public policy, higher education and literature.
Dr. Knerr is currently President Emeritus of the Turtle Conservancy; President Emeritus of United Neighborhood Houses of New York City; Vice Chairman of Humanity in Action; Treasurer of Words Without Borders; and a board member of the Keats-Shelley Association and New York Society Library. He is also a Director of the Delaware Group of Mutual Funds and a member of the Mutual Fund Directors Education Council. He has previously served on numerous other nonprofit and corporate boards. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, Grolier Club, New York Economic Club and Phi Beta Kappa.
He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University; M.A. cum laude from Yale University and B.A. magna cum laude in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University.
Emily
Menlo Marks
Currently a consultant with Anthony Knerr & Associates, Ms. Marks has had a variety of managerial and programmatic experiences in the nonprofit sector. She revitalized a nearly moribund 75 year-old organization, United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the federation of settlement houses in New York City. During almost 15 years as Executive Director, she restored the organization to strong financial health, brought in 10 new members and renewed its leadership position on critical social issues. She was responsible for putting together the fiscal, technological, personnel and administrative systems of the National Service Corporation for the City of New York as its Deputy Executive Director and also served as Acting Executive Director.
Ms. Marks also created several transitional employment programs at the Vera Institute of Justice as the Associate Director and Director of Special Projects. Two of the models have been spun out of Vera and continue today, one as an independent not-for-profit and the other as part of a larger institution. She worked in the public sector as Assistant Administrator of the New York City Environmental Protection Administration during the Lindsay Administration.
Ms. Marks has served as a Trustee on a number of nonprofit boards, including two three-year terms as President of The Parks Council, where she was a Board member for 30 years, and two terms as President of the International Federation of Settlements and Community Centers where she now serves as an advisor. She is a Trustee of Safe Horizon and BronxWorks. She has written and spoken widely on social policy and community issues and has been honored by numerous organizations.
She received her M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business; B.A. from Smith College; and a Certificate from the Columbia School of Social Work.
Lana Atanazevich
Ms. Lana Atanazevich, a Consultant of the firm, has significant experience and training in strategic planning, nonprofit management and organizational development. Her consulting assignments included a variety of social services and educational organizations, such as Aquincum Institute of Technology - Budapest, Asphalt Green, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Queens College Foundation and University of Aberdeen International Leadership Program, as well as organizational assessment and comparative analysis tasks for Cambridge University and Norman Rockwell Museum, among others.
Prior to this post, she was at Taproot Foundation, responsible for volunteer outreach, recruitment, training, evaluation and program management. She also held market research and analysis positions at CBS and The Intrac Group, where she undertook a variety of marketing projects and media and market research. She has also been a Teaching Assistant at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a Board member of Rotaract Club at the United Nations. Ms. Atanazevich is an active member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Columbia University Organization and Human Development Consulting Club (OHDCC).
Ms. Atanazevich received her B.S. with high honors in linguistics and intercultural communications from Voronezh State University (Russia) and her M.A. in international studies/organizational psychology from Columbia University Teachers College..
Richard Baznik
Richard Baznik, a project consultant of the firm, has extensive experience as a senior executive officer, strategist, planner, communicator and consultant for a wide variety of higher education institutions and other nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Europe.
Mr. Baznik is highly skilled in helping organizations to develop strategies that target their strengths and opportunities and at integrating these strategies with organizational development, governance, communications, partnership building and resource generation.
Mr. Baznik served for more than 40 years in senior executive roles at Case Western Reserve University, where he is now Vice President Emeritus for Public Affairs. Specific assignments during his tenure at Case Western Reserve include managing all internal and external communications; launching and managing government and community relations programs; coordinating strategic planning, international affairs, executive search and institutional research; and advising and representing the President on a wide range of issues. In his most recent assignment, he was Director of the Institute for the Study of the University in Society, where he researched and wrote a new history of the institution and explored the evolving role of research universities in society. He has also taught a variety of undergraduate courses at the University.
He has served as the Founding Chair of the University Magazine Network, a national consortium of research universities; Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts; incorporator and officer of the Board of Trustees of the Buckeye Health Center, a primary care and birthing center serving inner city residents that has since been integrated into University Hospitals of Cleveland; and a trustee and officer of Karamu House, an arts, education, and community-service organization focused on African American culture.
Mr. Baznik received his B.A. in classics (English, Greek, and Latin) from John Carroll University and completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business.
R. Dyke Benjamin
R. Dyke Benjamin, a project consultant for the firm, has extensive experience as an investment and financial counselor to a wide range of commercial and nonprofit institutions.
A Managing Director of Axiom Capital Management Inc., Mr. Benjamin is a former Director of Lazard Asset Management LLC, where he was an Investment Counselor and securities analyst for more than thirty years. He was previously a securities and regulatory analyst.
A primary focus of his work has been financial and organizational structures of nonprofit institutions, and he has consulted widely in the U.S. and abroad on a broad range of alternative financial and investment strategic, policy, structural and governance issues.
Mr. Benjamin is CEO of the Annie Tinker Association for Women, Inc; Chairman of the Audit Committee for the Bibliographical Society of America, Inc.; Advisor to the Board of Trustees of the Modern Language Association; Treasurer of the American Trust for the British Library; a member of the Finance Committee of St. Philip’s Church; and a member of the Finance Committee of the Support Center for Nonprofit Management. He is also a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Financial Planning Association.
He served on the U. S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hunger; was Chairman of the Finance Committee and Treasurer of the Century Association and the Grolier Club of New York City; has been a financial advisor to several United Methodist City Society charities, including the Five Points Mission, one of the oldest charities in New York City; and was a member of the vestry of St. Bartholomew’s Church and a Director of Girls Inc., formerly The Girls’ Club of America, Inc. He is a member of The National Institute of Social Sciences, which honors the highest level of contribution to the betterment of American society.
Mr. Benjamin has spoken and written widely in investment and financial advisory matters as well as on John Ruskin, a nineteenth century art critic and social reformer, whose books and letters he collects. Among his recent publications are Greater World Stability Through Innovative Ethical Finance; John Ruskin: the Formation of a Private Collection; Ruskin Observed; and Ruskin Remembered.
Mr. Benjamin received his B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Viktor Böhm
A Senior Consultant of the firm, Viktor Böhm is a strategy advisor to leading social entrepreneurs, non-profit organisations and select commercial enterprises.
He previously held executive positions at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, including Vice President for Strategy and Development and Deputy Chief Operating Officer. His contribution to the development of the Central European University was acknowledged by the CEU President’s Award in 2009.
In various advisory capacities, Dr. Böhm has been involved in leadership enhancement and capacity building at a number of public institutions and multinational corporations, including the Hungarian subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom the Hungarian Regulatory Authority for Telecommunication and, most recently, at a publicly listed UK company. He has also managed major fund-raising initiatives for professional organizations, local and international foundations, large-scale public events, research projects and scientific conferences.
Dr. Böhm received his M.A. in social psychology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and his Ph.D. in political science from Central European University. He was a resident Research Fellow in moral and political philosophy at New College, Oxford.
John M. Braunstein
John M. Braunstein, a Senior Consultant of the firm, has extensive experience in higher education strategy, organization, management, enrollment and planning.
He was earlier a Senior Associate in the Higher Education Consulting Group of Coopers & Lybrand, a Senior Consultant in Higher Education at KPMG Peat Marwick and a Principal in the higher education strategy and financial analysis practice of The Stillwater Group. His clients in these positions included Columbia University, Educational Testing Service, University of Maryland System, University of Missouri, MIT, New York University Stern School of Business, University of Chicago Law School, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.
Mr. Braunstein has also served as Associate Provost for Enrollment and Planning at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion; Interim Associate Provost for Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission at Franklin and Marshall College; Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at Iona College; Associate Director of Admission at Oberlin College; and Assistant Director of Admission at Brown University.
He has written and spoken widely on higher education strategy, planning, financing and athletics.
He received his B.A. degree in semiotics from Brown University and his M.B.A. in management of organizations and marketing from Columbia University. He also participated in the Management Develop Program of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Peter McE. Buchanan
Peter McE. Buchanan, a Project Consultant of the firm, is a Senior Associate at Washburn & McGoldrick, Inc.
He is President Emeritus of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In that role he directed the training of institutions in the fields of fundraising, marketing, communications and alumni relations. He has consulted widely with higher education institutions about fundraising and related issues.
Dr. Buchanan was previously Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations at Columbia University, where he led two major fund-raising campaigns, one of which was for a billion dollar program, and Vice President for Planning and Resources at Wellesley College, where he led a major fund-raising campaign.
He is a past member of the governing boards of CASE, Dana Hall School, Episcopal Divinity School, Independent Sector and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. He also chaired the Washington Higher Education Secretariat’s Multiple Employer Trust Board (MET), providing comprehensive medical insurance for participating associations’ members. He is currently a Director of the Curry School of Education Foundation Board at the University of Virginia; a member of the University Council of Cornell University; and a Trustee of the Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Dr. Buchanan received his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University, his M.B.A. in Marketing from Columbia University and his Ed.D. in Higher Education from Columbia University.
Patricia R. Burch
Patricia R. Burch is a project consultant of the firm and one of two managing principals of The Stillwater Group (www.stillwater.com), a management consulting firm specializing in financial analysis and academic planning for institutions of higher education.
Ms. Burch has extensive experience in strategy, finance, operations management and organizational effectiveness for a diverse set of higher education clients, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, schools of art and design, historically black colleges and universities, theological seminaries, and single-sex colleges. She has assisted a number of clients with mergers and other forms of institutional alliances; business planning; and exploration of strategic options.
She held a variety of administrative positions at Columbia University from 1981 to 1993, including Budget Director for the Arts and Sciences and Associate Provost for Planning and Policy Analysis. She staffed Columbia’s university-wide strategic planning process and directed studies of a wide range of financial and policy issues in the University’s schools, academic programs, and libraries.
She received her B.A. in economics and her M.B.A. in business economics and non-profit management from Columbia University.
Robert Curvin
A Project Consultant of Anthony Knerr & Associates, Robert Curvin is widely experienced in community development, social policy, urban policy and leadership development.
Dr. Curvin was most recently President of the Greentree Foundation. He was previously Vice President, Communications, of the Ford Foundation; Director, Urban Poverty Program, at the Ford Foundation; Dean, Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, at the New School for Social Research; Member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times; Associate Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College; Community Development Specialist at Rutgers University; Director of the Rutgers Community Action Training Program; Director of the Harlem Leadership Training Institute; and Caseworker and Supervisor of the Essex County Welfare Board.
Dr. Curvin is presently Board Chair of the Fund for the City of New York, a member of the boards of Humanity in Action, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the RAND Corporation and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He was previously a Trustee of Princeton University; a member of the National Academy of Public Administration; a Director of the Revson Foundation; a Trustee of Channel 13 Public Television; a member of the Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University; and a Director of Broad National Bank. He has also been a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution and a Consultant to the National Affairs Division of the Ford Foundation.
He has written widely on issues of urban politics, economic development and social policy.
Dr. Curvin received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.S.W. from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work and his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Prior to attending college, he served as an officer in the 101st Airborne Artillery. He is married to Patricia Hall Curvin, a retired high school English teacher. They have two children and two grandchildren.
Patricia Dandonoli
Patricia Dandonoli, a project consultant of the firm, has extensive experience as a senior executive and consultant in mission-driven organizations and philanthropies.
Ms. Dandonoli is experienced in organizational assessment and at developing implementing strategic plans for change and growth. She has particular skills in capital campaign planning, financial and strategic planning, marketing and communications, resource development, program planning and implementation and governance.
Ms. Dandonoli was the founding President and CEO of WaterAid America, an international non-governmental organization devoted to providing safe drinking water in developing countries. Prior to this, she was the Head of Resource Development at the Office of Queen Rania Al Abdullah in Jordan. She previously was Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Sundance Institute, Executive Director of the Steven H. & Alida Brill Scheuer Foundation and Vice President, Development/Institutional Giving and Executive Director, Institutional Planning & Media Productions at the American Museum of Natural History.
She was earlier a Senior Associate at Jan Krukowski Associates, a consulting firm specializing in marketing and communications for education, arts, and culture organizations.
Ms. Dandonoli’s consulting clients have included the American Cancer Society, Defense Language Institute, Educational Testing Service, The Getty Museum, Investors’ Circle, Mouse, Inc., Nasher Sculpture Center, National Security Agency; Parrish Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the UCLA Hammer Museum.
She received her B.A. in Psychology from Clark University and was a Ph.D. candidate at CUNY Graduate School.
Margaret S. Downs
Margaret Downs, a Project Consultant of the firm, has wide experience in public policy, strategy, general management and private equity.
Most recently, Ms. Downs has served as Managing Director of Downs & Associates LLC, a practice she founded in 1997 to advise clients in the information and services sectors on strategic and organizational issues. Consulting engagements have ranged across organizational assessment and design, strategic planning, change management, merger integration, leadership development and business process improvement. Downs & Associates has served in a variety of sectors including media, marketing information, healthcare, financial services, management consulting, environmental services, engineering, food, fashion and non-profit.
In 2000, Ms. Downs joined Bain Capital LLC as an Executive Vice President and served for more than two years in a business development and marketing role for this private equity firm. Bain Capital was formed by partners of Bain & Company, where she served from 1985 to 1990, managing engagements in business strategy and operations for the firm’s corporate clients. Prior to founding Downs & Associates, Ms. Downs served as General Manager of APM’s strategic consulting group. APM, Inc. (now CSC Healthcare, a division of CSC) was a leading U.S. consulting firm serving the health care industry.
Ms. Downs has held management positions across the private, public and non-profit sectors. She left Bain & Company in 1990 to join the newly formed U.S. subsidiary of Daneco Danieli Ecologia S.p.A. (now Daneco ABB), an Italian-based company active in design, construction and operation of waste processing facilities, where she served first as Vice President and then as President. Beginning in 1981, Ms. Downs spent two years as a project director for the Northeast-Midwest Institute, where she specialized in environmental issues for this non-profit policy research center that serves members of Congress and governors. Also in Washington, she served as a legislative director and education policy aide in the U.S. Congress.
A member of the board of directors of the A.M. Todd Company, a former client, Ms. Downs also serves as an advisor to their venture capital arm, Great Spirit Ventures. In addition, she performs non-profit service as a member of Fountain House’s Council for Training, Education and Advocacy.
Ms. Downs received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, where she received first year honors and served as a marketing tutor. She earned her B.A. degree from Harvard College, magna cum laude with highest honors in history and Phi Beta Kappa. Margaret has completed additional training in organizational psychology, negotiation and group facilitation.
Shirley Ferguson Jenks
A senior consultant of the firm, Shirley Ferguson Jenks has extensive experience in providing strategic and development counsel to nonprofit organizations in the fields of culture, education, health, and social services.
As a principal of the Jenks Group, LLC, she works independently and with other experts to design and implement strategic planning projects; conduct annual and capital campaigns; undertake writing and research projects; and conduct executive searches. With over 30 years of experience as a consultant and executive, she began her career in New York as the first Director of Development for the Landmarks Conservancy where she established and directed the fund-raising office. Subsequently, as Director of Development for the Cultural Council Foundation (CCF), she organized the organization’s first formal development efforts and has advised dozens of the emerging arts groups served by CCF.
Ms. Jenks then served as Manager of the Annual Fund of the American Craft Museum, where she devised and implemented a full range of national development programs during the construction of a new museum and a $10 million capital drive. She established and conducted all of the activities of the Museum's first major donor club, the Collectors Circle. Subsequently, Ms. Jenks served as Vice President for Development for the American Academy in Rome where she oversaw annual fund raising and a $20 million Centennial campaign for capital needs and endowment. She has been a consultant to nonprofit organizations for more than 17 years.
Ms. Jenks was founder of the Development Professionals Roundtable and served as its President for ten years. She currently serves on the Boards of the American Foundation for the Courtauld Institute of Art and the New York Preservation Archives Project.
She received her M.A. in Medieval Architecture from the Courtauld Institute in London and her B.A. with honors in Political Science from Manhattanville College.
Suzanne Gaba Aisenberg
Ms. Aisenberg, a Project Consultant of the firm, has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, having served as a foundation program officer, a consultant and a staff member.
She was most recently Program Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies where she was responsible for $100 million in grants primarily in the areas of philanthropy/volunteering, civic engagement and nonprofit infrastructure. She was earlier Vice President of Art Options where she advised corporate clients on the acquisition of works of art and the implementation and management of educational art programs in the workplace. She has served as an advisor and consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations and foundations on issues of infrastructure, program development, strategic planning and positioning.
Ms. Aisenberg currently is a board member of Hands On Network, and was a founding Board member of the Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service (now Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement), and a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Standards of Excellence Project developed by the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. In addition, she has been a mentor in the Global Social Venture Competition jointly run by the Columbia Business School and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and serves on the reader selection panel for the Echoing Green Foundation for its annual fellowship awards.
Ms. Aisenberg received her B.A. from Barnard College in economics and art history and her M.F.A. from Columbia University in arts administration and nonprofit management.
Cynthia Gibson
Dr. Gibson, a Project Consultant of the firm, most recently was Program Officer, Strengthening U.S. Democracy, at the Carnegie Corporation, in which position she was responsible for overseeing and administering grants for the foundation's national program in strengthening U.S. democracy as well as two national sub-programs, strengthening the nonprofit and philanthropic sector and youth civic engagement.
She was previously a consultant on nonprofit and philanthropy strategic planning, research and communications for a wide variety of foundations and organizations, including Annie E. Casey Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Institute, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, National Institute of Health and Citizens Committee for Children.
Earlier, Dr. Gibson was Director, Communications and Development for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association; Development Communications Associate for Ms. Foundation for Women; Development Associate for Partnership for Democracy; and Research Associate/Media Production Coordinator for People for the American Way.
She has spoken and written widely on nonprofit strategy, citizenship, education, philanthropy and social policy. She has taught at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy and served on numerous advisory committees, selection panels and editorial boards. She was selected by the Nonprofit Times in its "Power and Influence Top 50 Leaders in 2003" and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. Gibson received her Ph.D. in Social Work/Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University, M.S.W. from Catholic University and B.A. summa cum laude in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University.
Susanna Ginsburg
A project consultant of the firm, Susanna Ginsburg has significant expertise in assisting both public and private client organizations to design, implement and assess investment strategies and performance, program initiatives and policies. Ms Ginsburg has extensive experience in women’s health including reproductive health. Her most recent efforts involved work with the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association examining current trends and issues related to family planning through focus groups at the national PPFA meetings and development of a policy framework to address family planning with the new administration. She was the principal developer of the National Family Planning Performance Measurement System and one of the original developers of the National Women’s Health Report Card.
Ms. Ginsburg’s consulting and research experience has focused on emphasizing improvement of the health and well-being of vulnerable populations through strategic consulting to public agencies, health care providers, nonprofits and foundations, public policy analysis, program design and implementation, evaluation, and development of data and performance measurement for organizations including the Health Resource and Service Administration, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the Department of Health and Human Services, among others.
As a Presidentand CEO of SG Associates Consulting, a firm that specializes in providing strategic consulting to foundations, public entities, health care organizations and nonprofits, Ms. Ginsburg is involved in conducting policy analyses on critical health issues and impacts of policy change; and designing and evaluating programs for performance improvement and assessment of impacts. She was previously Managing Vice President of Health Services Research and Evaluation at Abt Associates in Cambridge, Vice President and Practice Director of The Lewin Group and an independent consultant in several policy research firms and community development and planning organizations.
Ms. Ginsburg is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and sits on the Steering Committee for Bright Futures for Women’s Health and Wellness. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Hygiene, a Clinical Instructor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. She has written, published and spoken widely on issues concerning public health research and policy.
Ms. Ginsburg undertook her Doctoral studies at Brandeis University’s Heller School of Social Policy and Management. She received her Master of Social Work in Administration from the University of Michigan and earned her B.A. in Social Sciences from Michigan State University.
Daniel Goroff
Daniel Goroff, a project consultant to the firm, is on leave from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont where he is a Professor of Mathematics and Economics, and where he previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.
Dr. Goroff was on the faculty of Harvard University for over twenty years, where he served as Professor of the Practice of Mathematics, Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Resident Tutor at the Leverett House. A recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, he taught courses at Harvard in mathematics, economics, physics, history of science, and continuing education programs, and was the founding director of a masters degree program in “Mathematics for Teaching” offered through the Harvard Extension School.
Dr. Goroff has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Higher Education, as a Division Director at the National Research Council in Washington, in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as Director of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, and as the Chair of the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction at the National Research Council. With Richard Freeman, he co-directed the Scientific and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-edited the book Scientific and Engineering Careers in the United States published by the University of Chicago.
Dr. Goroff has also held visiting positions at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, and the Dibner Institute at MIT. He is currently based in New York working as a Program Director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Dr. Goroff earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University as a Danforth Fellow, his M.A. and B.A. in mathematics from Harvard as a Borden Scholar, his M.Phil. in economics at Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar, and his M.A. in mathematical finance at Boston University.
Neil Grabois
Neil Grabois, a project consultant to the firm, was previously Vice President and Director for Strategic Planning and Program Coordination at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he was responsible for the direction, conduct and evaluation of all programs of the Foundation.
Dr. Grabois served as President of Colgate University for 11 years. He was previously Provost of the College, Dean of Faculty and Dean of the College of Williams College. As a professor of mathematics, he taught at Colgate University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, State University of New York at Albany, University of Oregon, University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University and Williams College.
Active in educational organizations, Dr. Grabois has chaired and served on accreditation teams for the Middle States and New England Associations of Colleges and Schools. He has served on numerous educational boards and committees, including Harvard University’s assessment seminar and Pew Foundations’ science advisory committee.
Dr. Grabois received his B.A. in mathematics from Swarthmore College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a certificate from the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. Dr. Grabois was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from Williams College and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Colgate University.
Susanne
Kastler
Before
joining ANTHONY KNERR & ASSOCIATES in 2000, Ms.
Kastler was Director of Program Development at the
French American Foundation in New York City where
she planned and administered educational and social
programs. Her program areas included Youth Violence
Prevention, Civic Education and Early Education. She
was responsible for developing program budgets, proposals,
agendas and coordinated candidate selection. Ms. Kastler
also oversaw the publication of major reports on the
French universal pre-school system, organized press
conferences and consulted with American organizations
interested in French early education policies.
Prior to coming to the United States, Ms. Kastler
held several positions at INSEAD, an international
business school in France. In her last post there,
she was responsible for formulating a new reciprocation
policy for their FF 700M global capital campaign.
Ms. Kastler received her MA in American Studies from
Columbia University; BA magna cum laude in
American Studies from Mount Holyoke College; and language
degree in English, French and Spanish from Nürnberger
Fremdsprachenschule (Germany). She is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa.
Andrea Kihlstedt
Andrea Kihlstedt is a Project Consultant with Anthony Knerr & Associates and is widely experienced in planning and coordinating fundraising programs and capital campaigns.
Ms Kihlstedt has a remarkable record of successful development programs and capital campaigns, typically assisting clients raise more money than they ever thought possible. Over the past 25 years, she has assisted dozens of organizations expand and reinvigorate their fundraising programs. She has a wide range of experience, working with community-based organizations and national organizations. She has conducted assessments and training programs for the ACLU, the Robin Hood Foundation, Hudson Guild Settlement House, and the Cancer Center for Lancaster General Hospital among many other organizations. Ms Kihlstedt is a frequent speaker on fundraising and related topics at national conferences.
Ms Kihlstedt has written extensively about fundraising. Her book, Capital Campaigns: Strategies That Work, now in its 3rd edition (Jones and Bartlett, 2009)is a standard reference in the field. Her new book, How to Raise $1 Million in Ten Bite-Size Steps (Emerson & Church) came out in 2010.
Ms Kihlstedt is co-founder of Asking Matters™, an innovative web-based resource that enables people to identify their Personal Asking Styles and understand how best to use their styles in asking for gifts. This site was launched in May of this year and also provides a compelling video library of people talking about asking and giving.
Ms Kihlstedt served on the founding Board of MATA, an organization that encourages the work of young composers and founded and ran a successful concert series for emerging performers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Ms. Kihlstedt received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. in Philosophy from Brown University.
James (Jack) A. Krauskopf
A Project Consultant of the firm, Jack Krauskopf is presently Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Nonprofit Group in the School of Public Affairs of Baruch College. He was previously Chief Program Officer of the 9/11 United Services Groups; Senior Fellow, Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives at the Aspen Institute; President of Corporation for Supportive Housing; and Dean of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy of the New School.
Earlier, he was Commissioner of New York City Human Resources Administration; Director of the Center for New Jersey Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University; Deputy Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services; Director of the Office of Newark Studies of Rutgers University; and Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Cleveland (Ohio) Department of Human Resources and Economic Development.
Mr. Krauskopf has written and spoken widely on social services, child welfare, urban policy, employment policy and city government. He has taught at Baruch College, Cleveland State University, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Rutgers University School of Law and the University of Wisconsin. He has extensive consulting experience with a wide range of nonprofit and governmental clients.
Mr. Krauskopf is presently Chair of the Board of the Center for Urban Community Services; a board member of the Citizens Committee for Children of New York and United Neighborhood Houses; a trustee of the Cultural Institutions Retirement System; a member of the Advisory Committee of Child Welfare Watch, the National Steering Committee of the Coordinated Assistance Network and the Program Committee of I Have a Dream. He has previously served on many nonprofit boards and governmental advisory groups, with a particular focus on community volunteer, human services and public policy organizations.
He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.
Sandra D. Kresch
Sandra Kresch, a project consultant of the firm, is President of PSD International Inc., a consulting firm focused on supporting corporate and not-for-profit clients in addressing high impact strategic business issues. She has more than 30 years of experience in managing businesses and consulting with clients on issues related to implementing strategic change with particular focus on growth strategy, organization design and marketing. Her work often involves leveraging intellectual property assets and brands into new sources of revenue, and she has deep expertise in all segments of the media business.
Ms. Kresch has significant experience in defining and implementing the organizational changes required to successfully grow businesses and expand the impact of not-for-profit organizations. She marries an in-depth understanding of the critical success requirements in individual institutions with a sensitivity to the structural and staffing issues associated with effective implementation of strategy to guide organizations through major restructuring initiatives.
Prior to founding her own consulting firm, Ms. Kresch was a Partner with Booz, Allen & Hamilton working in their commercial management consulting practice; the lead Entertainment and Media Strategy Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers; and has held senior management positions at Time Inc. In that work, she has participated in the evolution of the Internet as a communications tool and new medium, helping companies and not-for-profits to take advantage of new capabilities to expand their impact.
Ms. Kresch currently serves on the Boards of Directors of The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and the Theater Development Fund. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Asset Management and Development Committee of the YWCA of the USA and is their representative to the United Nations. Ms. Kresch is a past member of the National Board of the YWCA of the USA and of the Boards of Directors of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, Utopia Parkway Arts and the Jose Limon Dance Foundation. In addition, she previously served as a Director of Ascent for Meredith Asset Management, a privately held asset management firm serving high net worth individuals and institutions.
She has written and lectured on market segmentation, competitive structure, strategic planning, management of innovation and corporate and not-for-profit governance. In addition, she has been an advisor to the European Commission on issues related to the development of media and telecommunications in Europe.
Ms. Kresch received her B.S. in Physiological Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Esther Lee
Esther Lee, Executive Assistant to the Managing Director, has significant experience in project and operations management in both public and private sectors.
Prior to joining Anthony Knerr and Associates, Ms. Lee managed the operations of LeaderFinder, an executive recruitment firm that specializes in financial services, healthcare and government contracting agencies. She also held a project management position at D2Creative, an interactive design agency serving the medical field.
Ms. Lee worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Hong Kong where she coordinated the communications between UNHCR staff and refugees and asylum seekers. She also worked at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Hong Kong where she oversaw volunteer activities and developed advocacy workshops for high school students.
Ms Lee received her B.A. in International Relations and Theology with a minor in Communications from Wheaton College in Illinois and her M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Janice McGuire
Janice McGuire, a Project Consultant of the firm, has broad executive, programmatic and consulting experience in the nonprofit sector.
She was most recently Executive Director of Hudson Guild, a settlement house providing a wide-range of educational, recreational, and social services to residents of all ages in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. During her 19 years in that position, Ms. McGuire planned and implemented the organization’s first strategic plan and its first capital campaign, which resulted in the complete renovation of its headquarters building – as well as the creation of a new template for contractual relationships between community service organizations and the NYC Housing Authority.
Prior to her tenure at the Guild, Ms. McGuire served in a variety of administrative, teaching and organizational development positions in both the private and public sector. This included securing the first federal grant to New York City to develop a community education program which blended school and community services; participating in the development of early models of supportive housing for the mentally ill homeless; and creating and implementing training and technical assistance programs for community boards and other units of local government, as well as teaching in both the New York City public schools and at LaGuardia Community College.
Ms. McGuire has served on the boards of a variety of civic organizations, including Manhattan’s Community Board #4; the Hudson River Park Trust Community Advisory Committee; the 23rd Street Association; and Urban Pathways.
She received her B.S. in chemistry from Mount St. Vincent and her M.A.T. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Stephen R. Reiner
A Project Consultant to the firm and an attorney in the business of enhancing the financial and operational health of non-profit organizations and entrepreneurial focused enterprises, Steve Reiner brings nearly 40 years experience managing multiple businesses while actively serving on over 15 boards of prestigious non-profits, primarily in the Jewish community.
Mr. Reiner is currently the Chair Emeritus of the Jewish Communal Network Commission at the UJA-Federation of New York. In his role as Chair, he led various committees and task forces that directed approximately $35 million in core operating grants, organizational reviews, and capacity building grants and services for more than 100 agencies in the UJA-Federation network. He also served on the UJA-Federation Executive Committee, and he is presently a Board Member.
Mr. Reiner currently serves as the President of the Kings Bay YM/YWHA and is a Trustee of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America and the Jerusalem Foundation, where he is also the Treasurer. Mr. Reiner is currently a Trustee, Member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee at Brandeis University. He has served on three Presidential Search Committees and three university-wide Strategic Planning Committees, and has played a key role in the strategic plan to reorganize the governance structure of the Brandeis National Women’s Committee, which brought it into greater alignment with broader university governance. He was also Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Alumni Association, which facilitated changes in governance and operating processes in order to be more receptive and relevant to alumni, and Chair of the Brandeis Annual Fund which increased alumni giving by 15% during his tenure.
Mr. Reiner has participated in a number of strategic planning projects for various not-for-profit institutions, and has substantial experience dealing with governance and organizational issues.
Mr. Reiner received his L.L.B. from New York University Law School and his B.A. from Brandeis University. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Svetlana Shmulyian
Svetlana Shmulyian, a Project Consultant with the firm, has experience with a wide variety of non-profit, public and for-profit institutions with broad experience in organizational and business strategy consulting, research and teaching.
Dr. Shmulyian was previously Senior Consultant, Business and Organization Strategy, at IBM; Principal Consultant, Business and Organization Strategy, at PwC; and Analyst, Human Resource Planning and Development, at Arthur Andersen. In these positions, she undertook a variety of strategic projects with a particular focus on strategy development, organization development and design; customer relationship management; organizational assessment; and employee and customer analytics (including interview, focus groups and survey research and advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis).
Dr. Shmulyian is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Organization and Leadership Department at Teachers College, Columbia University, with a special interest in data-based organizational consulting, organizational research methods and statistics. She has also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Guest Speaker in the Management Department and MBA Executive Education Program at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.
Svetlana received her Ph.D. in Organization Psychology from Columbia University. She also holds a M.S. in Non-Profit Management and a graduate certificate in Organizational Development and a B.A. with honors in Mathematics.
Lynn M. Taussig, MD
Dr. Taussig, a Project Consultant of the firm, retired in January, 2006 as President/CEO of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, a position he held for nearly 12 ½ years. Currently, he is a Special Advisor to the Provost (for the Life Sciences) at the University of Denver and a consultant to National Jewish. He serves as the chair of the steering committee for the National Institutes of Health’s Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network.
Prior to assuming his position at National Jewish, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Director, Steele Children’s Research Center at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He was on the faculty of the University of Arizona for 19 ½ years and began the Pediatric Pulmonary Section at that institution. In 1980, Dr. Taussig initiated the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study, a major longitudinal study of the risk factors for asthma; the study continues today.
He is the author of more than 165 scientific publications and six books and monographs. He is a recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University School of Medicine, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society and the Kendig Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Taussig is a graduate of Harvard University and Washington University School of Medicine.
Brigitte W. Treumann
Brigitte W. Treumann, a Project Consultant of the firm, combines a successful career of 20 years working for nonprofit organizations in the arts and higher education and consulting widely, as principal of her firm Resources 2000, with nonprofit organizations in the United States and Europe on issues of strategy, development/fundraising and organization design. Her clients include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, England, the Privat-Universität Witten in Germany, The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago and the Heliopolis University Project in Cairo, Egypt.
Dr. Treumann also was Associate Director of Development at the University of Chicago, Director of Development of George Washington Law School and Associate Vice-President for Development at George Washington University. Prior to her work in the non-profit sector, Dr. Treumann was in the graduate program of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago. During that time she also taught at Latin School as well as Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. She has done research and field-work in the Near East and Spain, presented and published papers on early trade and colonization in the Mediterranean, and is currently writing a book on that topic.
Dr. Treumann is currently President of the Human Opportunities Trust (HOT), an organization she founded to provide assistance to SMEs in the Near East. She is also a member of the US Board of Trustees of Asha Foundation, an Indian NGO based in New Delhi that provides tuberculosis treatment to the very poor. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Opera Theater and is on the Board of Directors of the Civil War Landscapes Association. Dr. Treumann is a past member of the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Board of Governors of the American Research Center in Egypt and the Board of Directors of the Aurea Performance Ensemble.
She received her B.A. in library sciences from the Library School of the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Germany and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago. She is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, with basic conversational skills in Italian and is familiar with classical and contemporary Hebrew and beginning Arabic.
Sara C. Wedeman
Sara Wedeman, a project consultant of the firm, is an executive-level management consultant and psychologist with integrated expertise in business planning and practice, applied behavioral science, research and technology. She has over twenty years of experience helping clients and colleagues craft novel, effective strategies for change using a thorough grounding in and understanding of behavioral economics, information technology, market strategy, business planning and organizational culture.
Dr. Wedeman is President and Founder of the Behavioral Economics Consulting Group, LLC, which provides strategic, analytical and implementation support to clients. Previously, she led the behavioral science initiative at the Advanta Corporation; was a Principal and owner of the Wharton Center for Applied Research at the University of Pennsylvania; Founder of Sara C. Wedeman Associates, a consulting firm focused on research, change initiatives, and product development; and Vice President of the Research Division at CoreStates Financial Corporation and First Pennsylvania Bank.
She has consulted widely in the nonprofit and corporate sectors on: market strategy, business planning, organizational design and behavior, as well as stakeholder relationships. She is licensed in the practice of psychology and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Stanford University’s Center for the Ethics of Persuasive Technology.
Dr. Wedeman received her B.A. with distinction in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College, her M.S.S. in social work and social research from Bryn Mawr College, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in scientific and professional psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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