Vermont Public Radio and Vermont PBS have announced the appointment of Brendan Leonard as chief financial officer.
Leonard has over 25 years of professional experience primarily in nonprofits, including 20 years providing management consulting services to senior leaders and boards of diverse organizations. Most recently, he served as chief financial officer of the YMCA of Greater Burlington, where he shepherded the construction of a new 52,000-square-foot facility, which was designed to serve the health, wellness and child care needs of the Burlington community.
“I couldn’t be more excited to be joining VPR & Vermont PBS,” Leonard said. “Public media has been instrumental in my life, and now more than ever, we need to serve, inform and connect our communities with truth, wisdom and a little entertainment along the way.”
Previously, in his consulting work, Leonard provided financial and strategic consulting services to dozens of organizations across the country and around the world. Prior to that, he spent seven years in health care finance.
Leonard is former vice chair of the board of trustees at Saybrook University and served as chair of the trusteeship committee. He is a graduate of Haverford College and holds a Master of Business Administration in public and nonprofit administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.