Administration


Dr. Jonathan P. Binstock is the Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection. Dr. Binstock comes to the Phillips following eight years as the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) of the University of Rochester in New York. During his tenure in Rochester, Binstock led an expansion and diversification of the museum’s permanent collection, special exhibition program, public engagement and outreach efforts, and audience, as well as a significant increase in the museum’s annual budget. Prior to Memorial Art Gallery, Binstock served as the Senior Vice President for Modern and Contemporary Art in the Art Advisory & Finance group of Citi Private Bank. He was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 2000-07, and Assistant Curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1998-2000.
Staff Leadership
Jonathan P. Binstock, Vradenburg Director & CEO
Nehemiah Dixon III, Senior Director for Programming and Community Engagement
Angela Gillespie, Director of Human Resources
Renée Littleton, Chief Communications Officer and Director of Marketing
Cherie Nichols, Chief Financial Officer
Wendy Ponvert, Chief Development Officer
Elsa Smithgall, Chief Curator
Vesela Sretenovic, Director for Contemporary Art Initiatives and Academic Affairs
Anne Taylor Brittingham, Deputy Director for Education and Responsive Learning Spaces
Yuma I. Tomes, Horning Chair for Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion
Micha Winkler Thomas, Deputy Director for Strategy and Chief Operating Officer
Board of Trustees
John Despres, Chair
Barbara Hall, Vice Chair
Sala Patterson, Vice Chair
Pamela Gwaltney, Secretary
B. Thomas Mansbach, Treasurer
Patty Alper-Cohn
Beatriz Bolton
Barbara Berish Brown
Susan L. Butler
Robert Drumheller
Nina Chung Dwyer
Josh Eastright
Lindsay Ellenbogen
Todd Galaida
Julie Garcia
Bonnie Burke Himmelman
Lynne N. Horning
Paul Killian
Micheline Klagsbrun
A. Fenner Milton
Juanita Moore
Ronald A. Paul
Judy Pomeranz
Harvey Ross
Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr
Alice Phillips Swistel
Elizabeth Williams
Leo E. Zickler
Dani Levinas, Chair Emeritus
George Vradenburg, Honorary Chair, Trustee Emeritus
James B. Adler, Trustee Emeritus
C. Richard Belger, Trustee Emeritus
Jonathan Fineberg, Trustee Emeritus
Gerald W. Fischer, Trustee Emeritus
Jay Gates, Director Emeritus
J. Roderick Heller III, Trustee Emeritus
Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Trustee Emerita
Dorothy Kosinski, Director Emerita
Toni H. Paul, Trustee Emerita
Richard Thompson, Trustee Emeritus
Alan L. Wurtzel, Trustee Emeritus