6 Minutes With a CEO
Leadership identification, development and succession planning has been a focus of Dewey & Kaye since our founding in 1990. In this monthly Mosaic newsletter feature, we highlight an influential, effective and innovative nonprofit CEO and the organization they are leading successfully. Please take a few minutes out of your day to learn what's helped them succeed in their career and what advice they have for aspiring nonprofit executives.
We're delighted this month to feature:
Bill Kitson
President & CEO
United Way of Greater Toledo
- As the CEO of an organization that serves three counties in NW OH, what's the most daunting challenge presented by operating in multiple and diverse locations?
Keeping our work authentic to each community is the biggest challenge of being a regional organization. While the things we do in Toledo's central city are dramatically different than what we do in rural North Baltimore in southern Wood County, they are grounded in the belief that we must reflect what our community asks of us.
Click here to read the complete 6 Minutes with a CEO —Bill Kitson.
Welcome to Jermaine Husser
New CEO – Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Jermaine Husser started as the new CEO for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank on August 1, 2011.
Husser comes to Pittsburgh from the Lowcountry Food Bank in Charleston, SC, where he served as executive director since 2005.
"My family and I are elated to be joining the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank family. We have enjoyed Pittsburgh's hospitality and hope to repay it by working together with the board, staff, volunteers, elected officials and community to continue to seek innovative ways to end hunger in Western Pennsylvania. We truly believe in Joyce Rothermel's message that we are "‘stronger together and that change can only happen with persistence.’ We plan to build off of her strong legacy of service," said Husser.
Husser succeeds Joyce Rothermel, former CEO and co-founder of GPCFB. She retired after a 30-year career with GPCFB.
Husser is a native of Goose Creek, SC. He earned an Associate in Business degree at Trident Technical College with additional coursework in business administration at Charleston Southern University. He also served in the U.S. Army. Husser is currently a member of the National Action Committee of Feeding America. He also serves on the boards of Trident Technical College Foundation and the Charleston Housing Authority. He is a past president and the first African-American president of the Historic Rotary Club of Charleston.
Husser and his wife, Thetyka, have a 3-year-old daughter, London Jade.
Dewey & Kaye is proud to have helped with this search.