A Global-Health Expert Will Become CEO of the Wellcome Trust in January

Wellcome Trust

John-Arne Røttingen will be the next CEO of the £38 billion ($46 billion) grant maker for health research, headquartered in London. He will begin his new role in January.

Røttingen is currently the ambassador for global health in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Joyce Foundation

Ellen Alberding plans to step down as president and CEO in 2024, once a successor has been hired.

She has worked at the $1.2 billion grant maker for 34 years.

Foellinger Foundation

Sarah Strimmenos has been named president and CEO of the $196 million foundation in Indiana. She has served on its Board of Directors for nine years.

Most recently, Strimmenos was Fort Wayne market president at Old National Bank.

Technology Association of Grantmakers

Jean Westrick will become its executive director, starting December 1. She is currently director of information-technology strategy and communications at the Chicago Community Trust.

Westrick will follow Chantal Forster, who has led the group for six years and will remain in an advisory role until the end of December.

More New CEOs

LaTara Harris has been hired as CEO and president of Crittenton Services of Greater Washington. A board member at the charity for many years, she was most recently director of external and legislative affairs at AT&T.

Muneer Panjwani will now serve as CEO of Engage for Good, a company that facilitates social-impact partnerships between companies and nonprofit groups. A social-impact investor who previously served as vice president for institutional partnerships at the Trevor Project, Panjwani acquired the company from the Cause Marketing Forum. David Hessekiel, the founder and president of Engage for Good, will stay on as an adviser until May 2024.

Shelley Strickland has been named CEO of the Charlotte Community Foundation, a $20 million community fund in Florida. She will begin in January. Until last year, she was vice president for philanthropy and interim president and CEO at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation.

Other Notable Appointments

Alana Jochum, executive director at Equality Ohio, has been named policy director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Demetrios Kadenas, interim chief development officer at the Child Mind Institute since May, has been appointed to the post permanently. He was previously head of advancement at Success Academy. In addition, Charles Fields, a strategic-operations consultant, has been hired as chief of staff.

Norma Ming has joined the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as managing director of the Carnegie Evidence and Improvement Lab. She was most recently manager of research and evaluation in the research, planning, and assessment division of the San Francisco Unified School District.

Jennifer Ruth is now chief customer officer at Bloomerang, a tech company that makes software for volunteer and donor-relationship management at small and medium-sized nonprofit groups. Most recently she was chief customer success officer at Newsela.

Departures

Patrick Butler intends to retire next year as president and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations. He has led the organization since 2011.

Paul Jones, vice president for university relations and general counsel at Marquette University, will depart the university to lead corporate development and strategy at the A.O. Smith Corporation.

Howard Kittell, president and CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation for the past 15 years, plans to retire once a successor has been named.

Legacies

Robert Brustein, an artistic director and playwright who founded two nonprofit theaters, died on October 29 at age 96. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1966 before joining Harvard University’s faculty and creating the American Repertory Theater in 1980.

Sheldon Goldseker, a real-estate developer in Baltimore and Philadelphia who was the longtime chairman of the Goldseker Foundation, died on October 27. He was 82. The $140 million foundation was created in 1973 following the death of his uncle, Morris Goldseker; it makes grants to students, families, and entrepreneurs in Baltimore. Sheldon Goldseker was also a trustee of the Baltimore Community Foundation for 38 years.

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