private sector leadership

Executive Board

Founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller, Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) encourages, inspires, and stimulates businesses to support the arts in the workplace, in education, and in the community. The BCA board provides leadership on key initiatives including messaging, advocacy, and strategic alliances within the private-sector community.

Founder
David Rockefeller

Chairman
William T. Kerr
Chairman
MiBa Holdings LLC
President & CEO (retired)
Arbitron, Inc.

Members
John F. Barrett Chairman, President and CEO Western & Southern Financial Group	Kathryn A. Paul President and CEO Delta Dental of Colorado
Albert Chao President, CEO and Director Westlake Chemical Corporation	Suku Radia President & CEO Bankers Trust Company
Joseph C. Dilg Partner Vinson & Elkins LLP	Henry T. Segerstrom Managing Partner C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans Chairman and CEO (former) Sunoco, Inc.	Mark A. Shugoll CEO Shugoll Research
C. Kendric Fergeson Chairman, Board of Directors Americans for the Arts Chairman and CEO NBC Oklahoma Altus, OK	Edgar L. Smith, Jr. CEO World Pac Paper
Martha R. Ingram Chairman Emerita Ingram Industries Inc.	Ken Solomon Chairman, Ovation TV Chairman and CEO The Tennis Channel
Parker S. Kennedy Executive Chairman The First American Corporation	Jonathan Spector CEO The Conference Board, Inc.
William T. Kerr President and CEO Arbitron, Inc.	Steven Spiess Executive Director Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Robert Lamb, III President Grayson Group LLC	Barry S. Sternlicht Chairman and CEO Starwood Capital Group
Craig A. Moon President and Publisher (former) USA TODAY	Bobby Tudor Chairman and CEO Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC
John Pappajohn Chairman, Equity Dynamics Inc. Owner Pappajohn Capital Resources


Former Chairmen	Directors Emeriti
Robert O. Anderson	Henry W. Bloch
Winton M. Blount	Eli Broad
John H. Bryan	John H. Bryan
Willard C. Butcher	William R. Chaney
Ralph P. Davidson	Don H. Davis Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon	David Finn
W.H. Krome George	Christopher Forbes
David R. Goode	David R. Goode
J. Barry Griswell	Arthur C. Martinez
Gavin K. MacBain	Thomas P. Putnam
Raymond D. Nasher	Harry M. Reasoner
John D. Ong	William Ruder
Thomas P. Putnam	A. Thomas Young
Robert W. Sarnoff
Henry T. Segerstrom
Frank Stanton
Rawleigh Warner, Jr.
A. Thomas Young