Roxanne Spillett
President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Roxanne Spillett leads one of the most successful nonprofit organizations in the nation. Each year, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) serves some 4.5 million girls and boys through membership and community outreach. There are more than 4,300 Club affiliates in the United States, and on U.S. military bases in Europe and Asia, with a combined staff of 50,000 full- and part-time employees and annual revenues of $1.5 billion.

Spillett has led BGCA through a period of major expansion, implementing a growth strategy that doubled the size and scope of the Boys & Girls Club Movement and tripled its revenues during the last eight years. More recently, the organization unveiled a dynamic new brand strategy, featuring national spokesperson Denzel Washington, that is heightening the public profile of Boys & Girls Clubs.

Spillett also spearheaded the drive to increase services for children in nontraditional environments, including public housing and Native American lands. One of her most noteworthy achievements is initiation of a unique partnership with the Department of Defense, which has chartered Boys & Girls Clubs on more than 470 U.S. military bases worldwide.

Under Spillett’s leadership, BGCA has created generation-changing initiatives in education, technology and diversity. The organization has also significantly enhanced efforts to help Clubs increase their capacities in technology, human resources, and board and resource development. Her proudest accomplishments include uniting Clubs behind a common agenda and raising hundreds of millions of dollars to support the Boys & Girls Club Movement.

Spillett has also built one of the most prestigious and engaged nonprofit boards in America, establishing an enviable governing body that includes leaders and key executives of 15 Fortune 500 companies.

Her 1996 appointment to the presidency of BGCA marked a major milestone in a career spanning more than 25 years in Boys & Girls Club work. Spillett joined BGCA in 1978 as director of the National Health Project. Within a year, she was promoted to director of Program Services, responsible for the development and implementation of many national programs and partnerships.

In 1991, Spillett became BGCA’s assistant national director, and led the development of the Commitment to Quality process to ensure the effectiveness of program and service delivery in Clubs nationwide. Spillett also served as vice president of BGCA’s Northeast regional office. In that role, she managed all programs and services throughout the 11-state area, raised funds and built a Northeast trustee board.

In recognition of her numerous achievements, Spillett was selected as one of the “Power 50” by The Non-Profit Times for three consecutive years. She also received the Excellence in National Executive Leadership Award presented by the National Human Services Assembly, an association of leading nonprofits in the fields of health, human and community development, and human services. In July 2006, Newsweek cited Spillett and BGCA as one of “15 People Who Make America Great,” part of the magazine’s annual Giving Back Awards.

President George W. Bush appointed Spillett to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, which promotes volunteerism, community service and good citizenship. She is past chairperson for Leadership 18, an alliance of executives from the nation’s most influential nonprofits, and serves on the boards of the National Human Services Assembly and BoardSource.

In addition, Spillett teaches MNA (master of nonprofit administration) candidates at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on governance. She also serves on the board of the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University in Atlanta.

Spillett earned her bachelor’s degree in education from the State University of New York, and did graduate work in guidance and counseling at St. Lawrence University. She also studied public health administration at Hunter College in New York.

In recent years, Spillett has received a number of honorary doctorate degrees: one in law, from the University of Notre Dame; and three in the humanities, from Trinity College in Hartford, Bryant University in Rhode Island and Marian College in Indianapolis.

In 2008, Spillett led the launch of Impact 2012, a five-year strategic plan that positions BGCA more powerfully than ever as an advocacy organization of national scope and influence. The plan commits BGCA to ensure lasting impact in the lives of youth; increase high school graduation rates; build stronger revenues for Clubs; reach beyond Club walls to support families and encourage civic involvement; and build public trust.

Robert J. Bach
Chairman, BGCA National Board of Governors

A longtime supporter of Clubs, Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division for Microsoft Corporation, serves as the chairman of Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Board of Governors.

Bach brings a wealth of corporate expertise to this position. As president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, Bach manages five main businesses: the Interactive Entertainment Business, home to the Xbox and Games for Windows gaming platforms; the Mobile Communications Business, which develops and markets Windows Mobile software, services and applications; the Music Business, developers of the Zune portable entertainment devices and services; the Connected TV Business, which includes Microsoft Mediaroom and Windows Media Center; and the Specialized Devices and Applications Business, which includes PC Hardware, Microsoft Surface, Mac Office, Microsoft Auto, and Windows Embedded software.

Since joining Microsoft in 1988, Bach has worked on a variety of Microsoft products in a career marked by increasingly senior management positions. His experience includes working in Europe as the manager of Business Operations from 1990-1992. He also led the marketing effort for Microsoft Office from 1992-1997. Before the formation of the E&D Division in 2005, Bach managed the global launches of Xbox and Xbox 360 in his dual role as chief Xbox officer and head of the Home and Entertainment group - a global division then responsible for Xbox, Windows games, the Microsoft TV platform, and consumer hardware and software products.

Before joining Microsoft, Bach worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MBA from Stanford University.

Bach has tremendous experience in the nonprofit world as well. He recently chaired the BGCA Board of Governors Marketing Committee, heading vital efforts to raise public awareness about our work. Under his leadership, BGCA created a pro bono partnership with McCann Worldgroup, an international advertising firm which has launched a brand campaign to create awareness of our Clubs and our services. Also, Bach has been a driving force for the organization’s efforts to bring technology skills to every Club member, while making online safety a top priority.

Previously, Bach served with distinction as a board member for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellevue, Wash., including a tenure as board chairman. This experience provided Bach a grassroots understanding of Clubs and their generation-changing impact, along with a high level of enthusiasm and insight in his national role. His interest in young people, however, starts at home, where he and his wife are the very active and involved parents of three children.