Detroit Opera has announced the appointment of Lane DeCamp as chief marketing and development officer.
Most recently, he served as chief advancement officer at the Fort Worden Foundation, a 95-acre campus in Port Townsend, Wash. comprising 72 National Historic Landmark buildings and 15 arts organizations on the north coast of the Olympic peninsula.
“I am delighted to welcome Lane DeCamp to assume a key role with Detroit Opera. The breadth of his leadership experience in cultivating and sustaining support for arts and culture will be a tremendous asset to our organization,” says Wayne S. Brown, president and CEO of Detroit Opera.
“Lane brings a record of proven strategic practices wherever he has been assigned. His advocacy for opera and dance, in addition to vast experience with performing arts centers, aligns with the continuing evolution of our company under the artistic leadership of Yuval Sharon, Christine Goerke and Roberto Kalb.”
At the Fort Worden Foundation, he led a successful $13.6 million capital campaign in 2019 to build a 25,000-square-foot performing arts center to present a wide range of community- and diversity-oriented programming.
Previously, DeCamp served as senior vice president of strategic planning for General Electric and ran a Credit Suisse First Boston division responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing strategy for nonprofits including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Opera, Warhol Foundation, Dia Foundation, New York Lyric Opera, 92nd Street Y, universities, health care organizations, and major philanthropic families.
“I am honored to join Detroit Opera at this exciting time in the company’s history,” says DeCamp. “I’ve been impressed with their vision and how they are executing that vision as part of the renascence of Detroit. I’m proud to be part of their team.”
He studied particle physics and viral genetics at the University of Texas at Austin and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA in nonprofit finance and accounting from the University of Texas.
