JANE EFROYMSON
Jane Efroymson is a Vice President at DeWitt Stern Group in the Employee Benefits practice. Jane has over twenty years of experience in the group benefits field specializing in the financial analysis, design and communication of employee benefit programs. Jane is a licensed Health & Life insurance broker and has earned certification from HIAA for completion of its Group Insurance Curriculum.
Jane and her colleagues at DeWitt Stern Group have been working with performing art clients throughout their careers. The Firm’s dance clients include Alvin Ailey Dance, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris.  www.dewittstern.com

IAN GARRETT
Ian Garrett is the Executive Director of The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA). Ian is currently collaborating with the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, the Green Theater Initiative, Arcola Theater and others to work towards sustainability in the arts, ecological and otherwise. He received the 2007 Richard E. Sherwood award for emerging theater artists from the Center Theater Group (CTG) to be used forming a working relationship consulting with CTG on the integration of ecologically sustainable practice into their production. He teaches Sustainable Theater and Management Technology courses at the California Institute of the Arts and has been featured in American Theater, DramaBiz, and The Design Magazine and has spoken at The Central School for Speech and Drama, St. Louis University and the Indy Convergence. He studied architecture and art history at the Rice University in Houston, Texas, but has since come to work in live performance and installation art. After working with companies in Houston, New York City and Los Angeles he came to the California Institute of the Arts to complete dual MFAs in Lighting Design and Producing. More information can be found the CSPA’s website: www.sustainablepractice.org.

JAMES R. HACKNEY, JR. CFRE
As Managing Partner of Alexander Haas, Jim serves cultural clients all over the country.  In the past 5 years he has helped clients raise more than $700,000,000.  In the cultural area, Jim is currently the consultant to the Houston Ballet and has worked to build the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, and has consulted with the Dallas Museum of Art, Center for Puppetry Arts, Walters Art Museum, Colorado History Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, American Association of Museums, American Craft Council and many more.  Before he became a consultant in 1995, Jim was the Director of Development and Marketing for the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC. 
Jim is a founding board member of the Arts Leadership League of Georgia and is an advisor to United States Artists.  He is the past president of the Art Museum Development Association.  A graduate of Wofford College and Yale University, Jim lives in Atlanta in an Arts & Crafts house with his collection of southern pottery. 

JANELLE OTT LONG
Janelle Ott Long is one of the dance specialists at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and has worked there for over 10 years. She administers the applications and grants for the Access to Artistic Excellence and American Masterpieces: Dance categories.  She has conducted consultations and grants workshops at several arts conferences.  Prior to joining the NEA, Janelle was employed at Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance. While at Dance/USA, she helped with the administration of two re-granting programs: American Dance Touring Initiative and Philadelphia Repertory Development Initiative, acted as the liaison to the board of trustees, and administered Dance/USA’s grants.  Other arts organizations she has worked at include Cleveland Ballet, The Washington Ballet, and Karamu House. Janelle is originally from Ohio, and she is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College where she majored in business and minored in dance.  She received her M.A. in Arts Management at American University, where she currently is an adjunct faculty member.  She teaches a Cultural Policy course to Arts Management graduate students.

DAVID G. MALLETTE
David Mallette joined Management Consultants for the Arts in 2005 after working for more than two decades as a performing arts administrator in theater and dance.  His background and skills bring together a unique blend of organizational leadership, production experience, creative innovation and business acumen.  Management Consultants for the Arts provides services to arts and cultural organizations of all types and sizes including theatres, dance companies, performing arts centers, museums, colleges and universities, foundations and service organizations.
Mr. Mallette’s professional arts management experience began in 1984 at Houston’s Alley Theatre, where he was charged with the Alley’s facility operations and tour management.  He then joined Houston Ballet as company manager, where he was extensively involved in new productions and touring.  In 1990, Mr. Mallette became executive director of (what was then) Fort Worth Ballet.  During his tenure, Fort Worth Ballet would triple in size through its expansion across the region and the state, first as Fort Worth Dallas Ballet and then as Texas Ballet Theater.  While he was executive director, the Company performed in over forty cities, including Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and dozens of communities across Texas.  At his departure from Texas Ballet Theater in 2005, his fifteen-year tenure made him the longest standing ballet executive director in North America.  
His consultation experience has included work with large performing arts institutions, service organizations and foundations as well as smaller institutions, individual artists and festivals. 
Mr. Mallette is a frequent speaker, author and consultant in areas of organizational leadership and vision, crisis strategies, sustainable operational models, governance and nonprofit management.  His writing includes a series of four in-depth articles published in the Journal (Dance/USA’s member publication), exploring artistic and executive leadership in American dance companies.  In addition to his professional demands, Mr. Mallette’s volunteer service to the field and to the community has included serving on numerous boards and panels, most significantly as chair of Dance/USA (2002-05), the national service organization for professional dance, with previous terms as treasurer and vice chair.  He has also advised and/or served as trustee on numerous nonprofit boards and panels, Texas Commission on the Arts dance panel (as chair), Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the Joyce Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative and Mid-American Arts Alliance.  He holds degrees in music and music education from Hardin-Simmons University. 

BOB MIDDLETON
Bob Middleton is the Director of the Arts Insurance Program (AIP), which provides property and casualty products to performing arts organizations. With over twenty five years of risk management experience, he has developed programs specifically for the insurance needs of the dance community.  Working in partnership with Fractured Atlas, AIP currently insures over a hundred professional dance organizations, including many members of Dance/USA.

JULIANA MASCELLI
Juliana Mascelli is a Dance Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts.  After graduating from the George Washington University with a double major in English and Dance, she worked for the International Women’s Forum.  Before joining the Arts Endowment as a Program Assistant in Dance and Media, Juliana interned at Dance/USA. 

MADELEINE M. NICHOLS, Esq.
Madeleine M. Nichols is an attorney who has combined her knowledge and skills gained from work in the law, performing arts and investment fields for over 35 years.  She is an international speaker on copyright and a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) and Dance USA’s "Ernie" Award.  As curator of NYPL’s Dance Division, she negotiated contracts for: acquisition and preservation of arts materials; for recordings of theatrical performances, involving film, video and television; and with choreographers, composers, designers, photographers, performance companies, theaters and theatrical unions. She currently advises artists about pertinent legal documents that need to be in place for the best interest of their creativity and success, and counsels on how to take action steps at a pace consistent with the growth and health of their creative process for immediate and longer-term benefits.  www.mnicholslaw.com

JENNIFER NOVAK
Jennifer Novak is a consultant with WolfBrown, and is co-leading the research and assessment component of Dance/USA’s Engaging Dance Audiences initiative with Alan Brown.  Jennifer specializes in evaluation and research, specifically the development of innovative measurement tools to understand the intrinsic impact of arts on individuals. Her work often lies at the nexus between art - in all forms - and its connection to broader public policy issues.  Jennifer provides clients with technical assistance for evaluation, and helps them develop new ways to assure their programs are relevant, to rise to the growing challenge of accountability requirements, and to implement new approaches to audience engagement. Jennifer co-authored the 2007 WolfBrown study Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance and recently completed a large study of patterns of cultural engagement for the James Irvine Foundation.  Jennifer is completing her PhD at the RAND Graduate School.

DOUGLAS C. SONNTAG
Douglas C. Sonntag was appointed Director of the Office of National Initiatives at the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004.  The Office of National Initiatives administers several signature Endowment programs including Shakespeare in American Communities, Save America’s Treasures, American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius,and The NEA Arts Journalism Institutes.  Mr. Sonntag also serves as the Director of Dance for the NEA; a position he has held since 1997. 
Previously, he served as program administrator and senior program specialist for the Arts Endowment’s Dance Program where he supervised grants to dance companies, dance presenters, dance media grants, and dance preservation projects.  From 1981-1986, Mr. Sonntag was general manager of the Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In addition, he was an associate instructor for the University of Utah's Institute of Arts Administration and a staff specialist for the Department of Ballet. From 1980-81, Mr. Sonntag was the project director of the Utah Playwriting Conference, a joint project of the Sundance Institute and the Utah Arts Council. 
He has served as a judge for the American College Dance Festival/Dance Magazine Awards, and as a panelist for the Utah Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and the Carlisle Project. He has spoken at and served on panels many organizations including Dance/USA, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the International Association of Blacks in Dance, and at the International Tanzmesse NRW in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the Monaco Dance Forum, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Mr. Sonntag attended the American College in Paris and the University of Utah graduating with a B.F.A. in Ballet and an M.F.A. in Theater with an emphasis in arts administration.