Visitor - Interview
with
Curt Welling T'77
President and CEO, AmeriCares
Keynote Speaker for 2008 Community Outreach Day, Class of 2010 Orientation Week
Mr. Welling had a career in venture capitalism and private equity prior to taking the leadership of AmeriCares. When the T'10 interviewer asked him to compare his current activities with those in the for-profit financial sector, he said, "... the management skill set.. and the strategic discerning are very similar..the dynamics are similar enough so that the things that make sense in the for-profit sector generally make sense in the non-profit sector.... There’s good transferability, you just have to ......understand the difference between a market discipline and a mission discipline and how that effects the way the company works."