Kendall Hubert
Executive Vice President, Revenue & Philanthropy and Chief Development Officer
Kendall Hubert is the Executive Vice President, Revenue & Philanthropy and Chief Development Officer at Sesame Workshop.
As Executive Vice President, Revenue & Philanthropy and Chief Development Officer, Kendall Hubert leads revenue generation across Sesame Workshop’s philanthropic and commercial partners. She serves as the head strategist for growing sustainable revenue streams and fostering a culture of philanthropy and stewardship within the organization.
Hubert has held senior positions with some of the leading cultural, business, and policy organizations in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Japan Society, Dai Ichi Kikaku (part of the WPP group), American Committee on the French Revolution, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and CNN.
Prior to joining Sesame Workshop, Hubert was a member of the senior management team of the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years. As the Director of Development, Hubert was responsible for the Met’s Guild and Patron membership programs as well as the Research and Institutional Giving divisions before becoming Director of Leadership Gifts and Special Campaigns, with responsibility for Institutional Giving, including instituting the Global Partners program, Planned Giving area, and Special Campaigns, securing multi-year Met campaign and annual restricted funding for 16 special campaigns, from Met new productions and revivals, The Met Live in HD, Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, HD Live in Schools, to Opening Night Relay to Times Square, Summer Parks and Summer HD Festival, Access Opera, Met Opera on Demand Student Access, and the Ukraine Freedom Orchestra tour. In 2023, she was promoted to Senior Director of Leadership Gifts and Special Campaigns, to add working strategically with the General Manager on transformational giving and fully fund the Met Orchestra Asia Tour.
Prior to the Met, Hubert spent four years as the Senior Vice President and Director of External Affairs for the Japan Society, where she was responsible for general administration, programming, and external affairs. During her tenure, she led planning and execution of the Centennial celebration, oversaw the mounting of exhibitions, managed all major capital renovations, and raised the institution’s first seven-figure gifts to cover all related costs. Prior to that, she served as Director of Corporate Development for five years at the Guggenheim Museum, responsible for covering a third of the operating budget each year through the museum’s Global Partners sponsorship and corporate giving program. She also managed the museum’s international funding cooperation between Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, and Las Vegas. Previously, she held marketing promotions and programming positions at a Japanese advertising firm, Dai Ichi Kikaku Co, Ltd. in Tokyo, the American Committee on the French Revolution, The Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, and CNN on the International Desk.
Ms. Hubert received her B.A. cum laude as a double major in Russian and French from Washington University in St. Louis, Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University, and certification from the Executive Management Program at the Getty Museum Leadership Institute. She pursued additional studies at Middlebury Summer Intensive Language Institute, and graduate studies at the Institut National des Langues Orientales and Nichi Bei Kaiwa Gakuin. Hubert speaks French, Japanese, and Russian.
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