Ted Russell was appointed Senior Program Officer for the Arts in December 2005. Previously, Ted was Director of Marketing at Montalvo Arts Center, Silicon Valley's largest nonprofit arts organization, where he developed and implemented comprehensive marketing strategies that helped generate $4 million in revenue. Prior to that, he served in a variety of creative marketing and audience development capacities as Audience Development Manager for the San Francisco Symphony, as Annual Fund Director at the La Jolla Playhouse, as Managing Director of the Malashock Dance & Company in San Diego and as Director of the Jazz at the Wadsworth series at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, Ted has successfully developed and implemented media and marketing plans for Listen.com, as Senior Manager of Online Marketing, and for SFGate.com as Marketing Director. Ted has served as a board member and committee chair for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Joe Goode Performance Group, and is currently on the board of the Independent Television Service (ITVS). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University, and an M.B.A. in arts management from Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.