Mr. LaGreca has recently been appointed VCG's Transitional Executive
Director. Prior to this position Mr. LaGreca founded The LaGreca
Company. He has extensive experience in working with corporate
and nonprofit executives in areas as diverse as performance
coaching, to refining and redefining business operations. Over
the past 4 years, he has served three of his clients as Interim
Executive Director. He recently completed a $30M merger of two
social service agencies in Manhattan and on the dissolution
of a long established workforce program. In 2006 he completed
a business plan to create a young adult workforce development
intermediary focused on the challenge of out of school, out
of work young adults. Since then, he served first as Interim
Administrative Director and now as a Board member of the organization,
JOBSFIRSTNYC.
Prior to establishing The LaGreca Company (TLC) in 1999,
David spent eight years as a consultant at the Volunteer Consulting
Group (VCG). A graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit te
Leuven, Belgium, & a former priest, Mr. LaGreca received
his MBA in Management & Marketing from the Columbia University
School of Business.
Before joining VCG in 1991, Mr. LaGreca was the Administrator
for the Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center, managing a department with a budget of over $27M and
a staff of 130 employees. He also taught at Boston and Providence
Colleges, wrote a newspaper column in Rhode Island and spent
over fifteen years working with community-based health care
organizations caring for terminal patients. He currently also
serves on the Board of Governance Matters and on the Advisory
Board for the MBA-Nonprofit Connection.
Mr. LaGreca served on the Boards of Hospice Care of Rhode
Island and McAuley House (Providence, RI). He served as Chair
of the board of Body Positive of New York-a position he held
for five years. A native of Rhode Island, Mr. LaGreca has
lived, worked and studied in Belgium, England, Germany, Italy,
Jamaica, Massachusetts and Tanzania.
Mr. LaGreca contributed a chapter on chairing a board to
SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL BOARDS: The Best from the Non-Profit
Pros (compiled and edited by Carol Weisman, 1998), a chapter
on fundraising in the corporate community in SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL
FUND RAISING, and a chapter on implementation issues surrounding
strategic planning in a new book, SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL RETREATS.
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