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Veronica Thames, a senior-level executive with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation in Venice, is moving on to a new top leadership role with another foundation.
Thames has been named executive director for the Manatee Community Foundation, according to a statement. She replaces another prominent foundation executive, Susie Bowie, who left the Manatee Community Foundation in March when she was named president and CEO of the William G. and Marie Selby Foundation in Sarasota. Bowie had overseen MCF for nearly seven years.
Thames comes to MCF with experience as a senior vice president and COO at Gulf Coast, where she played a key part in expanding the foundation’s operations, including the opening of the Sarasota Philanthropy Center, according to a statement. Longtime Gulf Coast Community Foundation CEO Mark Pritchett retired earlier this year; the organization's new CEO, Phillip Lanham, who had been chief philanthropy officer at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, started June 1.
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