What Happened?

New York, NY-based Metropolitan Museum Of Art has appointed Jeff Spar as Chief Technology Officer.

About the Company

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world`s largest and finest art museums. Its permanent collection includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. In addition to its permanent collection, the Museum also presents dozens of special exhibitions each year, as well as a variety of events and programs, including films, lectures, concerts, guided tours, talks, and family programs. The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.

About the Person

Jeff Spar is a Senior IT operating executive with more than twenty years Information Technology and global business transformation leadership across media, entertainment and publishing companies.          

He is Currently Chief Technology Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Directly before joining the Museum, he served as Independent Consultant to CxOs helping to improve the strategic use of IT. He spent 10 years as SVP & Chief Information Officer at The Reader's Digest Association, a complex global $3 billion media, marketing & entertainment company with 5,000 employees across 60 countries and locations. RDA was publicly traded on NYSE until 2007 private equity transaction led by Ripplewood Partners. Before RDA, he had 10 years Strategic Management Consulting of experience at McKinsey & Company, Inc. Served clients on a broad set of business problems leveraging extensive IT expertise. He was a Member of McKinsey's Business Technology Office creation team.