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President and CEO, National Park Foundation
Vin Cipolla is recognized for his business and civic entrepreneurship, having achieved parallel
success in the private and public sectors. He has served on fourteen non-profit Boards and eight
corporate Boards. A six-time corporate CEO, he has founded three successful companies, and was
recruited by Fidelity Investments to head its global workforce management company, Veritude.
Devoted to preservation, conservation and the arts, Mr. Cipolla has consistently supplied civic leadership in these areas throughout his adult life, and joined the National Park Foundation as its President and CEO in 2005, architecting and overseeing a transformation of the organization. Twelve years prior, Mr. Cipolla was Executive Vice President and Publisher of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
For nine years he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston, where he oversaw the development of the museum’s stunning new building on Boston Harbor. Now Honorary Trustee and Emeritus Chairman, he served on the Board for a total of 15 years. Throughout his professional life he has been a pioneer of public-private partnerships involving some of the country’s most esteemed corporations and institutions.
In addition to the National Park Foundation Board, he presently serves on the Boards of Ballet Hispanico, where he is Secretary and Chairman of its Circulo de Honor, and the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy, where he is also Secretary. Recent corporate board appointments have included Fidelity Charitable Services and HNW, where he also served as Chairman and is a current Director. Having spearheaded major charitable campaigns over the years, Mr. Cipolla has also raised tens of millions in venture capital and corporate investment.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Cipolla has been on the forefront of new media. As founding CEO of HNW, he launched a company that is now a leader in high-net-worth digital marketing for the world’s top financial institutions. His previous company, Pamet, which he founded and ran, provided web technology to prestige clients in the U.S. and Europe, and was sold to a public holding company in 1999. His first company, Cipolla Group, was a leader in database systems and was sold in 1991 to Ingalls, Quinn & Johnson, a major advertising and integrated marketing agency then headquartered in Boston, where he also became President.
Other Board service has included Clark University, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, The Orton Foundation, Earthwatch, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he was Vice Chairman. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Clark University and an honorary Beta Gamma Sigma inductee of its Graduate Business School, where he also gave the commencement address for the MBA Class of 2000. He has frequently appeared on national television over the years on the subjects of conservation, wealth and philanthropy, and he has addressed a range of major audiences, from the World Business Forum to Congress.
Mr. Cipolla currently divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C. He is married to artist Celine McDonald and the couple has four daughters.
In the News
- Message from Vin Cipolla
- Vin Cipolla, President and CEO of National Park Foundation, Remarks on the Centennial Initiative
- NPF President and CEO addresses Congress on Proposed Centennial Legislation
- Vin Cipolla, President and CEO of National Park Foundation, opens Leadership Summit on Partnership and Philanthropy
