| Richard Kamenitzer has a 40 year experience base as a CEO, COO and CFO of both commercial and not-for-profit organizations, in the public and private sectors. Throughout almost all of that time, he has advanced start-up organizations, turned around poorly performing entities, obtained financing for emerging groups, managed small to very large construction projects and worked very closely with Boards and other CEOs in advancing plans for a more successful future. |
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The range of entities extend from K-12 schools, post-secondary institutions, construction management firms, marine construction, training and research entities, fine and performing arts organizations, youth services, scholarship funds, leadership development institutes and church-related organizations. |
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After working in public accounting and later as a college chief financial officer for two institutions, he has almost twenty years of continuous college teaching in accounting, arts management, business law, planning and budgeting, and statistics at the community college, senior college and graduate school level. Richard has guest lectured on such topics as collective bargaining, public budgeting, business ethics and cost accounting. Mr. Kamenitzer is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Higher Education Program and Associate Professor - Program Director of George Mason University's College of Visual & Performing Arts Master of Arts in Arts Management. He holds a B.S. in Accounting and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from Seton Hall University, a law degree from LaSalle Extension University and has done Ph.D. work in higher education administration at NYU.
Currently, he serves as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Washington Stage Guild and serves on the boards of illume productions, inc. (a not-for-profit documentary film producer), Hamiltonian Artists and, the Arts Council of Fairfax County. |
He is married to RoseMarie Pfaffe, a visual artist, and has four adult children and three grandchildren.
