LEWIS BRINDLE: BIOGRAPHY

Lewis C. Brindle was appointed director, George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, in April 2006. He works with Chair and Executive Director Naomi Levine to continue developing the Center's innovative programming and advancing its reach.  

Brindle formerly was director of Lewis Carver Brindle Arts Consulting, which provided fundraising and administrative expertise to arts organizations in the United States and Europe. Clients included the Norbert Brainin Foundation (London, England, and Asolo, Italy) and Fondazione William Walton e la Mortella (London, England, and Ischia, Italy).  

At New York University he was the founding director of the Alberto Vilar Global Fellows in the Performing Arts, a unique interdisciplinary fellowship program, which included seven selection committees in North America and Europe representing all the performing arts. At NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science, Brindle served from 1996 through 2000 on NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences as associate director of development, where he distinguished himself by identifying and developing many important new donors. His careful cultivation of these relationships resulted in new or increased major gifts and led to substantial growth in individual giving to FAS. Between 1992 and 1995 he was NYU’s assistant director of foundation and corporate relations, where he played a key role in increasing major gifts from organizations to the University.  

Brindle has been the director of development at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, and executive assistant to the president and secretary of the board at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.  

He pursued a performance career in New York and Boston, appearing as a soloist with the Opera Company of Boston and the Festival Orchestra of Boston, and in New York with the Bel Canto Opera.  Brindle received his Bachelor of Science in Education  degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Music degree from Boston University.