(New York, September 12, 2018)—The Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has elected two new members: Aaron I. Fleischman and Sacha Lainovic. The election took place at the September 12 meeting of the Board and was announced by Daniel Brodsky, the Museum’s Chairman. Mr. Fleischman will be an Honorary Trustee and Mr. Lainovic will serve as an Elective Trustee.
“It is a pleasure to welcome to the Museum’s Board two individuals who have already demonstrated a strong and longstanding commitment to the arts and to The Met,” said Mr. Brodsky in making the announcement. “With their collective experience in business, communications, investment, and law, and a personal interest in modern and contemporary art and African art, respectively, Aaron and Sacha both bring important dimensions to our Board. I look forward to working with them in their new leadership capacity over the coming years.”
Aaron I. Fleischman
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Aaron I. Fleischman, of Miami Beach, Florida, is an investor. He founded and oversaw for more than 35 years a leading, eponymous Washington, D.C., law firm in the communications, telecom, and energy sectors. During a period of explosive growth and change in these industries, he and his firm were a dynamic presence on behalf of major clients in the development, shaping, and often transformation of their clients' businesses as well as their related industries.
Mr. Fleischman has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary European and American art for more than 30 years. He has been a benefactor of museums and other institutions throughout the country, primarily in Miami; Washington, D.C.; New York; Cambridge; and Chicago. He has served on several corporate and museum boards, including the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is presently on the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago.
At The Met, Mr. Fleischman endowed a curatorial position in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2018. He is a former member of the department’s Visiting Committee. Together with his spouse, Linford L. Lougheed, he has supported several exhibitions, including a recent retrospective on David Hockney (2017).
Sacha Lainovic
Sacha Lainovic is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the investment firm Invus Financial Advisors, LLC. He also co-founded the global private equity firm the Invus Group, LLC, where he served as Executive Vice President from 1985 to 2006. Previously, he was a manager and consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. He received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds an MS in engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France).
He serves on the boards of the Hospital for Special Surgery and the Ronald McDonald House, both in New York, and on the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Lainovic spent his formative years in Ethiopia. Together with his wife, Rebecca, he collects African art. They have been members of The Met’s Visiting Committee for the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas since 2013.
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September 12, 2018
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