The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has named Michael C. Linn the new chair of Board of Trustees and tapped two new board members, Janet Feldstein McKillop and Stephen Schaible, for 2024-25.
Linn has been a trustee since 2022 and previously served on the Finance, Development, and Ad Hoc Capital Campaign for the endowment committees. He was honorary co-chair with his wife Carol of Artful Affairs, a fundraising event for SBMA.
Other elected officers are Lynn Cunningham Brown, vice chair, and Christian McGrath, secretary.
Linn is a 40-year energy industry veteran, spokesman and leader. Bringing a history of starting, buying, building, and selling both private and public companies, he has a record of success as founder, C-suite executive, industry authority, general counsel, board member/officer, teacher and investor.
Linn is currently president/CEO of MCL Ventures LLC, a family office with oil and gas, and real estate investments.
Linn’s civic board service includes Texas Children’s Hospital, where he was board chair for six years; member of the Board of Visitors and Development Committee at MD Anderson Cancer Center; member of Senior Cabinet of the President’s Leadership Council at Houston Methodist Hospital; and on the Board of Trustees and various committees at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Linn earned his JD in 1977 from Baltimore School of Law and BA in 1974 in political science from Villanova University.
Feldstein McKillop is a managing director and banker at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, where she works with endowments, foundations, nonprofits, family offices, and multi-generational families.
She joined the private bank in 2023, after serving as the J. Paul Getty Trust’s chief development officer/vice president since 2015. At the Getty, she led fundraising and external engagement efforts for the trust and its programs: the Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute and Getty Conservation Institute.
She began her three-decade career at J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank, and was later a research fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a fundraiser for Stanford and Harvard universities.
Originally from Boston, she lives in Pacific Palisades, California. She earned a BA in art history from Stanford University and MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Schaible is a senior advisor at Evercore Partners, a leading independent M&A advisory firm. He joined Evercore as a senior managing director in 2007 from Citigroup, where he headed the Global Chemicals and Natural Resources Groups.
Before joining Citi in 2000, he was a managing director and head of the Global Chemicals Group at J.P. Morgan & Co., where he worked for nearly 20 years.
Schaible is treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees of Ganna Walska Lotusland in Santa Barbara and serves on the investment committee of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Ave in New York City.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1981 cum laude with a BA in history.