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Webb Management Services Inc. 22 personnel + experience (continued) Duncan M. Webb founded Webb Management Services, Inc. to provide management consulting services to the arts and cultural industries. Duncan’s Role: Duncan will serve as Project Manager and would lead the planning effort by:  Coordinating all aspects of the effort, setting timelines and deadlines and managing the team and planning process;  Facilitating meetings, public presentations, and community input sessions;  Gathering information on Sunny Isle Beach’s arts and cultural community; and  Overseeing the development of the Cultural Master Plan and its implementation details, guiding visioning and identifying and prioritizing strategies. Duncan M. Webb, President, Project Manager Since 1997, Duncan has led more than 300 cultural studies and planning projects at Webb Management Services that include services similar to those requested in the RFP. He also completed similar work in two previous positions between 1989 and 1997. His work has particularly focused on community cultural planning and facilitation, cultural facility development and operation, cultural district planning and community development through cultural activity and facilities. Duncan’s career in the arts began onstage as a lovesick maiden in a 1969 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. After college, he became a banker, spending seven years in commercial lending and international finance. In 1986, after many years of volunteer work in the arts, he came into the field as a producer of experimental, industrial, and commercial theatre, with such credits as the Canadian premieres of Changing Bodies, Children of a Lesser God, Blood Brothers, Orphans, Marshall Bravestarr, and Barbie and the Rockers. He also developed marketing and sponsorship programs for the Canadian premiere of Les Miserables. In 1989, Duncan joined Theatre Projects Consultants as a management consultant, writing feasibility studies for a range of performing arts facilities and ultimately becoming the general manager of the North American practice of this theatre consulting firm. He then spent two additional years at AMS Planning and Research, doing similar work before starting Webb Management Services in March 1997. A Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Duncan has been an active speaker and published writer on arts management and the development, operation and financing of arts facilities. Webb’s book “Running Theaters: Best Practices for Managers and Leaders” was the first book ever written on the management of performing arts facilities. He is also a professor in New York University’s Graduate Program in Performing Arts Administration, where he teaches Finance and Planning for the Performing Arts and Principles & Practices of Performing Arts Administration, and is a regular contributor to The Clyde Fitch Report. Duncan has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Toronto. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.