Doug Shipman

Doug Shipman is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodruff Arts
Center, home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the
High Museum of Art. 

Mr. Shipman became the Arts Center CEO in July 2017, after serving as
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of BrightHouse, a stand-alone
business unit of the Boston Consulting Group since 2015.  BrightHouse is a
purpose-driven consulting firm that helps its clients define their true purpose to
accelerate their transformation and value creation.

Prior to that role, Mr. Shipman was the founding Chief Executive Officer
of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta from 2007 through

1. Starting from the ground up, he developed the Center’s business strategy, its fundraising strategy and its public engagement plan that led the $100 million museum to become a reality.

From 2001 until 2007, Mr. Shipman was a principal with the Boston
Consulting Group at its offices in New York, Atlanta and Mumbai.  He led project
teams on several continents in a variety of industries and functional areas,
including financial services, travel and tourism, medical devices, airlines and
consumer foods. 

Mr. Shipman, an Arkansas native, is a magna cum laude graduate of
Emory University, with B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science.  He
received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a
Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard, both in 2001.

Mr. Shipman is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Carter Center
and a member of the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, the Midtown Alliance, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau and
the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. He is active with the Harvard
Alumni Association and the Emory Alumni Association where he is a past
President.  He has been named one of Atlanta’s 100 Most influential by the
Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of Georgia’s 100 Most influential by Georgia
Trend Magazine.