Robin Sher, now Deputy Director of the Clark, was previously the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer. She has long led the administrative side of the organization, overseeing the Institute's finance, human resources, information technology, and sustainability departments.

Sher began her career at the Clark nine years ago as Budget and Finance Manager and was promoted to the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer. Prior to joining the Clark, she was the director of finance and administration for both Ronald McDonald House of Houston and Camp for All, a non-profit organization based in Burton, Texas. Sher served in comparable positions at several for-profit companies in Houston, Texas before entering the non-profit sector. She received her bachelor's degree in business administration and management from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and her M.B.A. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Sher currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vermont, as a corporator for Adams Community Bank, and on the finance committee of Williamstown Rural Lands.

 

Rebecca Raimer Sartori, CMA, CSCA is now the Clark's Chief Financial Officer, promoted from her previous position as Controller. She leads the finance and food service teams and is responsible for financial reporting, audit and tax compliance, strategic budgeting and forecasting, financial systems implementation, and oversight of investments and endowment management. She began her career at the Clark ten years ago as Accounting and Finance Manager and was promoted to Controller. Prior to joining the Clark, she served as Assistant Controller and later Controller of Petricca Industries, Inc. and Unistress Corporation of Pittsfield, MA. She has a BS in business administration and management from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and an M.B.A. from the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sartori is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, Tech Valley Chapter and a past member of the Construction Financial Management Association, Albany, NY Chapter. She is also Finance Council Chair for Saints Patrick and Raphael Parish in Williamstown, MA.

 

April Swieconek was recently appointed Director of Marketing and Communications at the Clark after serving in a similar capacity at The Wadsworth, where she led a comprehensive rebrand of the 183-year-old institution and was a member of the senior leadership team.

Swieconek has had a distinguished career in art museums and higher education and was previously the head of communications for the Yale Graduate School for Arts and Sciences and the Yale Center for British Art. Previously, she was the senior press officer for the National Gallery, London and the director of public relations for the Peabody Essex Museum. She started her art museum career at the Cleveland Museum of Art while still a student and served in the Peace Corps as a teacher of English as a foreign language before returning to New York to work in publishing and media with Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television. She has a BA in English and art history from Case Western Reserve University, and a post-graduate certificate in art history from Cambridge University.