Wendy Haley has over 25 years of financial technology experience, and is currently employed as CTO at Entrypoint Capital. She previously worked at JPMorgan Chase and other financial firms in various technical capacities. Wendy holds a B.A in Mathematics and B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University.

Wendy has loved opera since childhood, and has been turning friends into (sometimes surprised) fans since college. She is excited about this opportunity to support NCO in its mission to share the fun!

Scott Lindroth is an experienced program manager and specialist in program development, social media, fundraising and marketing with seven (7) years of expertise in operations management, program development, and communications consulting. His experience has involved such major companies as Manhattan School of Music, Dicapo Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Moderne, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Wildlife Conservation Society. At Manhattan School of Music, one of the country's most renowned, Scott focused on program development and marketing directly with customers. Scott has multi-year experience in communications consulting for various enterprises, which complements his program development work. Over the course of his career, Scott has developed a significant skill set in: (1) consulting; (2) website development; (3) operations management; (4) event coordination; (5) social media management; and (6) fundraising. Scott's consulting and operations management skills include: (1) developing multi-year strategic plans for development; (2) implementation and execution of the strategic plans; and (3) working with executives to track revenue and cost results, and make changes as needed. 

www.scott-lindroth.com

Ms. Smith currently serves as the Chief of Staff to the President of Manhattan School of music. Before that she was the Director of Marketing at New York City Opera (NYCO) where she was focused on the Pride Opera Initiative and the Ópera en Español series. In this position she sets the strategy for marketing initiatives, including e-newsletters, social media, season brochures, advertising, etc. Before working at NYCO, Alexa worked for Baltz & Company, a full service public relations firm first as Executive Assistant to the President, then Account Manager, and finally Operations Manager.

Ms. Smith holds a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

As a performer, she has been seen on the stages of New York City Opera, CNR Drama, The Martina Arroyo Foundation's Prelude to Performance, dell'Arte Opera, and BarnArts Theatre. She was most recently seen as an Elfe in Respighi's La Campana Sommersa with New York City Opera.

Her recent roles include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (dell'Arte Opera), Beatrice in the off-Broadway revival of Michael John LaChiusa's Marie Christine (Columbia Stages), Sarah in Ragtime Clara (CNR Drama) in Porgy & Bess (BarnArts Center for the Arts), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance) and Sharon Graham in Terrence McNally's Master Class (ArtisTree Center for the Arts). She made her Lincoln Center debut in New York City Opera's production of Rachmaninoff's Aleko and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.

She won an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions and was a semi-finalist in the Giulio Gari Foundation's International Vocal Competition and the Joy in Singing art song competition.