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Jayme Koszyn (Principal and Founder) oversees all activities of Koszyn & Company. She was the executive in charge of BAM’s first-ever Department of Education and Humanities, reporting to Harvey Lichtenstein. For over a decade Ms. Koszyn was on the faculty of the Boston University Theater School and Boston College. She has worked with over 70 clients since Koszyn & Company’s inception, and has spoken at numerous seminars and symposia about fundraising, development, and institution building. She was the President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association for the Americas and her writings on dramaturgy are used in international curricula. Ms. Koszyn is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, and was a Telluride Scholar at Cornell University. She holds an MFA from the Boston University Theater School, and a certificate from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Ms. Koszyn is a fourth generation New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Morgan Martin (Development Associate) joined Koszyn & Company in 2009. Morgan previously worked in the Development departments of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She also worked in publicity, human resources and administration at the Johnson Museum and as an assistant in both Cornell University’s Office of the President Emeritus and the Survey Research Institute. Morgan holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.
Ilona Aleksandrova (Associate) joined Koszyn & Company in 2011. Previously, Ilona worked in development at the GO Project, a not-for-profit based in lower Manhattan. Ilona also held positions at the Cluny Museum in Paris, where she helped create a corporate sponsorship initiative strategy, and in the Marketing and Communications department of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She graduated cum laude from UC Berkeley with a degree in Political Science and Mass Communications, and will complete her MA in Art History at Brooklyn College in December 2011. Ilona speaks Russian and Spanish fluently, and is proficient in French.
Jessica Crone (Marketing & Client Relations Director) joined Koszyn & Company in 2010. Previously, Jessica was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for Young Audiences New York, one of the largest arts education providers to the New York City Public Schools. Jessica has also worked with MCC Theater (Off-Broadway), Lincoln Center Festival and New York University Television in various marketing capacities. Jessica holds Master’s degrees in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and Classical Music Performance from Miami University (OH) and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music.
Dan Zanella (Senior Associate) joined Koszyn & Company in 2006. During his more than two decades working in development, Dan had a senior position with the Easter Seal organization, then served as Director of Development at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra before becoming the Chief Development Officer at American Ballet Theatre. He has managed programs raising a total of more than $80 million for these organizations. During Dan’s eight-year tenure at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, annual contributed income doubled while the organization’s endowment saw a six fold increase. He was also instrumental in successfully transitioning the Orchestra into its new home at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. At American Ballet Theatre, Dan was a member of the senior management and was directly responsible for an annual development goal of more than $13 million as well as significant Board development responsibilities. Dan graduated from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music with a double major in Music Performance and Management.
Rafael Weil (Designer) began working with Koszyn & Company in 2006, when he refined and upgraded the company’s visual identity. Since then, Rafael has designed numerous marketing pieces, including brochures, invitations, case statements, and presentations for many of Koszyn & Company’s clients. Working with Koszyn & Company, Rafael designed the logo for National Foundation for Advancement for the Arts and collaborated with the World Federation of United Nations Associations to design their Global Citizen Campaign brochure. Rafael was born in Caracas, Venezuela and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior architecture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master of Fine Arts in graphic design from Yale University. Following his studies at Yale, Rafael served as director of design at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where he implemented a new visual identity across the entire organization. Rafael is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
Additional staff / Koszyn & Company also works with over thirty highly-qualified educators, grant-writers, researchers, and nonprofit executives as its associate staff throughout the year.