President and CEO, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Richard Malone was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, one of the largest nonprofits in Chicago, on Dec. 17, 2009. As CEO, Dick is responsible for the leadership and management of the Association, and oversees its $105 million operating budget. The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago is comprised of 22 membership centers, five camps and hundreds of extension sites across Chicago and the suburbs, over 3,300 employees, and serves more than 500,000 Chicagoland residents annually.
Dick is the former Senior Vice President at Tribune Company’s Interactive group, a multimarket internet business of Tribune’s diversified media enterprise, supporting the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun, among others.
In his career with Tribune that spanned 28 years, Dick was also Senior Vice President & General Manager of Chicago Tribune, as well as Vice President of Operations for Tribune’s publishing division.
He is past president and a Lifetime Trustee of Have Dreams. He also serves as a Trustee of The Arthur M. Brazier Foundation.
Dick earned his BS in Production Management from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.