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New Trustees Charles N. Atkins, Blair Effron, John Paulson, and Dr. Samantha
Boardman Rosen Elected at Metropolitan Museum
Four new members—Charles N. Atkins, Blair Effron, John Paulson, and Dr.
Samantha Boardman Rosen—have been elected to the Board of Trustees of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announcedby Daniel Brodsky, the
Museum’s Chairman.
The election took place at the November 12 meeting of the
Board.
Brodsky noted:
“We are pleased to welcome four individuals to
the Board who bring a wide range of talents and experience to the Museum.
Each
of them has participated in various Museum Committees and shown a commitment to
the Museum’s mission and collection.
I look forward to working with them in
their new capacity as Trustees.
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and C. E. O. of
the Metropolitan Museum, continued:
“A global museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is
strengthened immeasurably by the wide-ranging experience and multifaceted
interests of its Board.
For this reason, I am delighted that the four new
Trustees will serve as stalwart advocates for such diverse areas as African
American art, Outsider art, and folk art; arts education, archives, and
20th-century art; Old Masters and 19th-century art; and modern and contemporary
art and photography.”
Charles N. Atkins is chief
executive officer of Atkins Capital Strategies LLC.
An attorney and investment
banker, he has more than 30 years of experience in capital markets, law, and
government.
During 22 years at Morgan Stanley, he focused on corporate
structured finance and recapitalizations in the power utility sector and other
sectors for corporate and financial sponsor clients. Prior to Morgan Stanley,
he was a structured finance banker at Lehman Brothers and E.F. Hutton for
governmental and government-sponsored entities.
A member of the District of
Columbia Bar, Atkins also practiced corporate law at the Washington, D.C.,
office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld.
A graduate of Howard
University and Harvard, Mr. Atkins served as an Associate Assistant
to the President during the Carter Administration.
In 1984, he was named deputy
director of the Democratic National Convention’s platform committee under
Geraldine Ferraro.
He served on the Presidential Transition Committee for the
first Clinton Administration and was appointed by President Clinton to serve on
the advisory committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Together with his
wife, Gayle Perkins Atkins, he has been active at the Metropolitan
Museum.
Mrs. Atkins, a civic leader, political and media consultant, and
broadcast journalist, served the Metropolitan Museum as an Elective Trustee,
Manhattan Borough Representative, and member of the Visiting Committee for the
Department of Photographs.
Atkins has joined the Board as an Elective
Trustee and its Manhattan Borough Representative.
He collects contemporary works
of art by self-taught artists and African American artists.
Blair Effron is a co-founder and partner of Centerview Partners, a leading
independent investment banking and advisory firm with offices in New York,
London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Throughout his career, he has advised
Fortune 500 and multinational companies across a range of sectors, including
consumer, retail, industrial, healthcare, and media. Mr. Effron began his
career at Dillon Read Co. Inc., where he worked for ten years before it was
merged into several successor firms, in what was to become UBS. While at UBS,
he was group vice chairman of UBS AG, a member of the board of UBS Investment
Bank, and served on several management committees.
Effron holds a
B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. His
past and present board memberships include the Center for Arts Education, New
Visions for Public Schools, Northside Center for Child Development, National
Humanities Center, the Foundation for the National Archives, Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Frick Collection. He is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Hamilton Project at the
Brookings Institution.
Together with his wife, Effron has been a
member of the Chairman’s Council at the Metropolitan Museum since 2011.
He
collects 19th- and 20th-century American and European art.
John Alfred Paulson is the founder and president of Paulson & Co. Inc.,
an investment firm with offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Previously,
he was a general partner of Gruss Partners and a managing director in mergers
and acquisitions at Bear Stearns.
Paulson graduated from New York
University and received his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard
Business School. He is a member of the board of New York University, the Central
Park Conservancy, the 92nd Street Y, and Partnership for New York City, and the
Dean’s Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School.
With his wife, Paulson has been a member of the Metropolitan Museum’s Chairman’s Council since
2008.
Samantha Boardman Rosen is
a clinical instructor in psychiatry and public health and an assistant attending
psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is a graduate of Harvard
University, the Weill Cornell Medical College, and the University of
Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. She is a board
member of Citymeals-on-Wheels and the Harvard Club of New York Foundation and
the founder of the website Positive Prescription.
At the Metropolitan
Museum, Boardman Rosen has served as an advisory member of the Trustee
Education Committee since 2011 and joined the Visiting Committee for Modern and
Contemporary Art in 2013.
Since 2009, she has been a member of the Museum’s
Chairman’s Council, of which she became co-chair in 2012.
Together with her
husband, she is a collector of modern and contemporary art and photography.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
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