Anne Wallestad
President & CEO, BoardSource
Anne serves as president and CEO of BoardSource, a globally recognized nonprofit focused on strengthening nonprofit leadership at the highest level — the board of directors. Recognizing the critical partnership between boards and executives, and the impact of that partnership on overall organizational success, BoardSource helps nonprofit leaders invest in their leadership partnership by providing research, thought leadership, and practical supports that help transform board structures, dynamics, and perspectives.

Anne was appointed to her position in 2013, after having served on BoardSource’s leadership team for nearly five years. She has overseen a period of remarkable growth and change, helping BoardSource expand its leadership voice and build a scalable model of program delivery that has resulted in a more than 200 percent growth in the number of leaders served. She has played an instrumental role in the launch of several new leadership initiatives including the Stand for Your Mission campaign, which challenges board leaders to play a stronger role in advocacy and public policy.

With 20 years of executive leadership experience in the nonprofit sector, Anne has worked closely with boards of directors and volunteers in a number of national and local organizations, and has cultivated deep expertise in fundraising strategy and leveraging the board’s fundraising role. She has served on a number of advisory committees and panels, including the Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations Panel on the Nonprofit Sector and Independent Sector’s 2014 Ethics & Accountability Advisory Committee. Under her leadership, BoardSource has been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious Drucker Prize for innovation, and named a Best Nonprofit to Work For in 2016 and 2017. Anne herself has been honored as one of The Nonprofit Times’ “Power & Influence Top 50.”

Anne graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Drake University, with degrees in both sociology and English. She is also a graduate of Stanford University Graduate School of Business’ Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

Rick Moyers
Board Chair, BoardSource
Rick is an independent consultant to philanthropy and nonprofit organizations. From 2010 to 2017, he was vice president for programs and communications at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation that supports nonprofits working to meet local needs in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Rick joined the Meyer Foundation as a program officer in 2003, and led the foundation’s work to support and sustain nonprofit executive directors and strengthen the region’s nonprofit sector.

From 1999 to 2003, Rick was executive director of the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations, and from 1992 to 1999, he held senior management positions at BoardSource. He is a co-author of “Daring to Lead 2011,” a national study of nonprofit executive directors, and is the author of The Nonprofit Chief Executive’s Ten Basic Responsibilities, published by BoardSource. Rick also writes about boards and governance issues for The Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2009, Rick received the Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s inaugural Grantmaker in Capacity Building Award. He is a past board member of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers and Imagination Stage, a children’s theater in Bethesda, Maryland, and the World Bank Community Connections Fund. Rick is a graduate of Washington Adventist University and holds a master’s degree from the University of Baltimore.