Bryan brings more than 16 years of nonprofit and arts leadership experience and has helped organizations raise over $105 million along the way. Most recently, he served as Director of Philanthropy at Gather, New Hampshire’s largest community food center, where he helped complete a $10.6 million capital campaign and build a permanent endowment. He’s a Certified Fund-Raising Executive with an MBA from UMass Amherst, and he started his nonprofit career as an Arts Management Fellow at the Kennedy Center.
Bryan is a lifelong dancer and educator. He trained and taught at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet alongside a number of dancers who’ve since become part of our own company and later served as that organization’s Acting Executive Director. In 2015, he founded Exchange Street Studio, a classical ballet school near Portland, Maine, and he currently serves on the boards of #instaballet and Portland Ovations, Maine’s largest performing arts presenter.