Anne Pasternak and Ben Jones, with Dan Sallick

Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest fine arts institutions in the nation. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Anne served as the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time for two decades, collaborating with hundreds of artists including Nick Cave, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, and Kara Walker, commissioning and presenting works that ranged from sculptural installations in Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall to the Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the sky above the former World Trade Center site, and continue to be presented on the anniversaries of 9/11.

Ben Jones is the Creative Director for the Unskippable Labs team at Google, which designs experiments to explore the future of advertising. He works with brands and their creative and media agencies to draw on the best of technology, culture, media and storytelling. His work takes him inside most major global advertisers and the top advertising agencies, helping shape them for this digital/mobile age. Prior to that, Ben was the Dean of Admissions at Bennington College, building a network of early stage venture funds, and publishing The Rope Eater, a novel, with Doubleday.

Dan Sallick founded Subject Matter legacy firm Home Front Communications with Paul Frick in 1999, which grew into a fully integrated communications and advertising firm, before merging with lobbying firm Elmendorf | Ryan to form Subject Matter. Prior to that, Dan worked in political campaigns and government, serving as press secretary to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt and as communications director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the successful 1998 election cycle. He is the chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A graduate of Rollins College, he was an NCAA All-American in tennis in 1991. Dan is also a former board member of the Judd Foundation.