Leader Qualifications

Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners, is a pioneer in the field of corporate sponsorship in the United States. During nearly 20 years at The Chase Manhattan Bank, she created and ran the Cultural Affairs Marketing Group in 14 countries and 20 U.S. cities -- doing good, raising visibility and helping to generate over $2 billion.

Ms. Zimet founded Arts + Business Partners in 1999 to consult on issues related to corporate marketing and sponsorship.

Ms. Zimet teaches regularly at Columbia University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania.

For the U.S. Department of State, she trains Cultural Attaches at American Embassies how to more effectively approach corporations to fund American culture abroad.

Ms. Zimet has degrees in art history from Syracuse University (BA), Sorbonne University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts (MA). She is a member of the American Association of Museum's Task Force on Corporate Giving and the Collections Committee of the Harvard University Art Museums.

Having read thousands of proposals and managed millions of "donor dollars", Ms. Zimet provides a rare glimpse from the donor's point of view.

You will walk away understanding how to strategically leverage charitable donations - and how to turn the expense of sponsorship into a profitable part of the business plan.