Brian joined EAC in 2018 after 19 years as president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Lorain County in Ohio, growing the organization’s assets by 130 percent while successfully weathering two recessions. During his tenure, the foundation awarded $80 million in grants and scholarships and earned an international reputation for innovation and excellence.

Brian is a co-founder of My Lasting Legacy, an online platform for storing and sharing inspirational donor stories. He has also served as chair of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a regional philanthropic collaborative that pooled more than $110 million over 12 years; chair of the Midwest Community Foundation Ventures, a four-state collaboration of community foundations to identify and develop innovative and value-added products and services to the field; and founding board member and governance chair of the National Standards Board for U.S. Community Foundations. 

Brian spent more than a decade learning alongside international colleagues as part of the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network and Transatlantic Community Foundation Fellowship. In 2013, he was recipient of the Ohio Philanthropy Award. In 2014, he received the Eric Nord Award for Excellence in Leadership, and 2016 he received the Michael G Shinn award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy (the Community Foundation of Lorain County).