James Abruzzo serves as Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Nonprofit Practice, in the firm's Newark, New Jersey office. He has over 25 years of experience as a consultant to nonprofit organizations. He has conducted management consulting projects in the arts/cultural, international relief, social service, foundation and trade association sectors. He has also recruited some of the nation’s top CEO’s to these nonprofit organizations.Mr. Abruzzo is also Co-Director and Co-Founder of The Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership at Rutgers Business School. This Center hosts Symposia and Workshops for nonprofit leaders, operates a Certificate Program in Nonprofit Leadership, provides consulting to nonprofit organizations and conducts research on critical nonprofit issues. Mr. Abruzzo also serves on the faculty of the Rutgers Business School. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Abruzzo served on the graduate faculty of Columbia University and continues to lecture frequently at other major business schools in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of Jobs in Arts and Media Management (ACA Publications, NY) that is used as a text book in many of the graduate programs in arts management in the US. He is quoted widely in industry publications like the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Nonprofit Times, the Art Newspaper, and has been interviewed on All Things Considered, NPR’s Morning Edition and One on One with Steve Adubato.Since 1997, Mr. Abruzzo has served on the Board of Trustees for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and from 1998 to 2004 was the Chairman of the Board of Dieu Donne Paper Mill, Inc. a nonprofit, contemporary art publishing and creative visual arts organization in New York City. He also served as President of the Board of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Abruzzo holds a Masters and a BA from Brooklyn College and a MS from Queens College.