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Trust Officers and Program Directors

The officers and directors of The J. Paul Getty Trust are appointed by the board of trustees to assist them in overseeing and conducting the activities of The Trust.

The Trust Officers are:

James N. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer

James M. Williams, Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, and Treasurer

Stephen W. Clark, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees

Ron Hartwig, Vice President, Communications

Patricia Woodworth, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer

Stephen L. Watson, Assistant Treasurer

William Humphries, Controller

The Program Directors are responsible for the operations of the four programs of The J. Paul Getty Trust: The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Getty Research Institute, The Getty Conservation Institute, and The Getty Foundation. The directors are:

David Bomford, Acting Director, The J. Paul Getty Museum

Thomas Gaehtgens, Director, The Getty Research Institute

Deborah Marrow, Director, The Getty Foundation

Timothy P. Whalen, Director, The Getty Conservation Institute

 

Trust Officers

JAMES N. WOOD
President and Chief Executive Officer
The J. Paul Getty Trust


James N. Wood joined the Getty in February 2007 as president and chief executive officer. A recognized arts leader, Wood served as director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1980-2004. Prior to that, he was the director of The St. Louis Museum of Art, an adjunct professor of art history at SUNY at Buffalo and associate director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. He also held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Currently, Wood sits on the boards of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS
Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, and Treasurer
The J. Paul Getty Trust


James Williams has been the vice president and chief investment officer of The Trust since December 2002 and was appointed treasurer in May 2006. Before joining the Getty, Williams spent three years as the president of Harbor Capital Advisors and president of the Harbor Fund's family of mutual funds. Prior to that, he was manager of the pension asset management department of Ford Motor Company. Williams has a B.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago.

STEPHEN W. CLARK
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
The J. Paul Getty Trust


Stephen W. Clark joined the Trust as vice president and general counsel in April 2008. Clark came to the Getty from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) where he was deputy general counsel. In his nearly 14 years of service to MoMA he served as associate general counsel, acting general counsel and secretary, and assistant general counsel. Clark was president of the Museum Association of New York, participated on several committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has served on the faculty of the American Law Institute/American Bar Association. Clark graduated from Hamilton College and Fordham University School of Law.

RON HARTWIG
Vice President, Communications
The J. Paul Getty Trust


Ron Hartwig joined The Trust as vice president of communications in 2005. Hartwig came to the Getty from Hill & Knowlton, Inc., where he was executive vice president and chairman of its California operations. He was previously general manager of its Los Angeles office. In the 1980s, Hartwig launched Hill & Knowlton's Japanese business division, later serving as president and chief operating officer of U.S. operations. Before joining Hill & Knowlton, Hartwig worked for 12 years at General Motors Corporation, serving as western corporate public relations manager from 1978 to 1980. He also served in the Carter Administration as director of public affairs and counselor to the secretary of the United States Department of Commerce.

PATRICIA WOODWORTH
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
The J. Paul Getty Trust


Patricia Woodworth joined the Getty in December 2007 as vice president, chief financial officer (CFO) and chief operating officer. An experienced and accomplished financial executive, Woodworth was the executive vice president for finance and administration and CFO for the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the Getty. She has also served as vice president and CFO for the University of Chicago and, over the course of her career, has overseen the state budgets for New York, Michigan, and Florida. Woodworth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland.

STEPHEN L. WATSON
Assistant Treasurer
The J. Paul Getty Trust


Steve Watson joined the Trust in October 1984 and has been in Investment Administration as a financial/investment analyst, manager of public market investments and currently assistant treasurer. He is responsible for helping to administer and report on the investment programs of the trust assets in accordance with the direction of the Chief Investment Officer. Prior to his position at the Getty Trust, Watson spent 11 years in accounting, cash management and investment analysis at Getty Oil Company. While at Getty Oil he participated in the administration of the company's Treasury Department and pension plan, including review and analysis of investment managers, reporting and administration of plan assets. He has a B.A. in economics from Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. in finance from UCLA.

WILLIAM HUMPHRIES
Controller
The J. Paul Getty Trust


William Humphries was appointed acting controller in February 2009. He became controller in April 2009. He is a CPA with 19 years of experience who worked most recently for Ticketmaster as their domestic controller. Prior to that he worked as the controller for the Consumer Products Group at NBC Universal and the controller for the Digital Studio Division at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He started his career at Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche. He graduated from California State University at Northridge with a B.S. in Business Administration and a major in accounting.

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Program Directors

DAVID BOMFORD
Acting Director
The J. Paul Getty Museum


David Bomford, acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, joined the Museum as associate director for collections in April 2007. Prior to joining the Getty, Mr. Bomford was senior restorer of paintings at the National Gallery in London, where he also served as head of the registrar's and art handling departments, and as conservator in charge of international loan exhibitions. Mr. Bomford, who is the author of numerous books and articles on conservation and art history, was a visiting scholar at the Getty Museum in 2005. He has served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, visiting professor at both the Churubusco National Institute of Conservation in Mexico City and the Vitae Foundation and Art Museum of Sao Paolo, editor of the international journal Studies in Conversation, and Secretary-General of the International Institute for Conservation.

THOMAS GAEHTGENS
Director
The Getty Research Institute


Thomas Gaehtgens joined the Getty as director of the Getty Research Institute in November 2007. Prior to that, he was the director of the German Center for the History of Art in Paris, an organization he founded in 1997. He also was chair of the department of art history at the Free University of Berlin where he served as a professor. Dr. Gaehtgens holds degrees in art history from the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Vienna and Paris, received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1966, and achieved his habilitation in 1972, the highest academic qualification in Germany, from the University of Göttingen. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1979 to 1980 and at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities from 1985 to 1986. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

DEBORAH MARROW
Director
The Getty Foundation


Deborah Marrow is director of the Getty Foundation. Dr. Marrow has also held other key positions within the J. Paul Getty Trust including interim president and CEO, dean for external relations, and interim director of the Getty Research Institute. Throughout her career, she has been active in professional organizations in the fields of art history, museums, preservation, and philanthropy and has served on several nonprofit boards. She is currently a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the board of Town Hall Los Angeles. Dr. Marrow began her career at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and later taught art history at universities in the Philadelphia area and in Southern California prior to joining the Getty. She holds a B.A. cum laude and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University.

TIMOTHY P. WHALEN
Director
The Getty Conservation Institute


Timothy Whalen is director of The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). His professional association with the Getty dates to 1983, when he was appointed assistant director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and then associate director of the Getty Building Program. In 1991 he assumed the position of senior program officer in The Getty Foundation, and in December 1998 he was named the GCI's director. Whalen is an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a member of the board of studies for the Courtauld Institute of Art's M.A. program in the conservation of wall paintings, and a member of the United States National Commission to UNESCO. A California native, he holds a B.A. in art history as well as an M.A. in museum studies and art history from the University of Southern California.



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