Arthur Nacht

Arthur completed a thirty-year career in corporate finance in 2001. For fourteen of those years he was Director of Financial Planning at Packard Bioscience Company, a scientific instrument company. He has extensive experience in corporate financial analysis and corporate strategic planning. He has received two degrees in business administration: a Bachelor of Science in finance with honors from Syracuse University (1969) and an MBA in finance from Harvard Business School (1971). He also holds an MFA degree in theatre management from Yale School of Drama (2006). Nacht is the principal of Nacht Theatre Consulting, LLC, a consulting practice devoted to the financial and strategic management of performing arts organizations, especially not-for-profit theatres. He is currently co-leading a five-year evaluation of Leading for the Future: Innovative Support for Artistic Excellence, an initiative developed and managed by Nonprofit Finance Fund and funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. That initiative is exploring new business and funding models for the nonprofit performing arts sector.