I'm responsible for strategy, funding, audience, speaker and partner experience, and the programme itself.
They must be change agents who are innovative about fund raising, audience outreach and the kinds of performers and shows they feature.
He told a fund-raising audience in Los Angeles on Sunday that his performance in the debate had gone awry.
For his part, Obama was taped telling a wealthy San Francisco fund-raising audience that frustrated working-class Americans tended to "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion".
"I would advocate a lot of people doing things for television, not film, because TV is much more possible to fund as audiences are watching and advertisers are paying," he says.
Adlai Stevenson, a year later, told a fund-raising audience: "Moderation, yes! Stagnation, no!" At the same dinner, Averell Harriman, a potential opponent for the 1956 Democratic nomination, disagreed: "There is no such word as moderation in the Democratic vocabulary".
I read articles on funding, trends, audiences and discovered inspirational people who combined business with art.
John Tusa Managing director, BBC World Service 1986-92 You compare the BBC's international activities, funding and audiences with those of its Russian counterparts.
In my own company, the main changes have been positive: a gradual increase in funding and audiences, and a growing organisational core supporting the company.
Obama told fund-raising audiences that it was entirely possible to support Israel, even passionately, without endorsing the platform of Likud and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
What takes up the bulk of your time? A. In addition to overseeing the daily operation, I do a lot of fund-raising, audience-building and attending artist showcases where artists perform.
