Depelsha McGruder
Outside Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Ms. McGruder has been a director since February 2021. Ms. McGruder is the chief operating officer and treasurer for the Ford Foundation, overseeing Finance, Information Technology and Information Management, International Operations, Facilities and Property Management, Grants Management and Event Strategy & Production across 11 offices in the US, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining the foundation in 2020, she served as COO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), overseeing internal operations and strategic planning for WNYC, WQXR, Gothamist.com, The Greene Space, and New Jersey Public Radio since 2018. Before her tenure at NYPR, Ms. McGruder spent 17 years at Viacom in senior leadership positions at both MTV and BET Networks, launching and operating multiple new businesses and networks. She started her career as a broadcast journalist, working as an on-air reporter, anchor, and producer for two commercial television stations in Georgia and subsequently spent time as a strategy consultant at Accenture in the media, telecommunications and high technology practice. She holds a B.A. from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.