Art Basel Announces Hayley Romer as Inaugural Chief Growth Officer

International fair producerArt Baselhas selected Hayley Romer for the newly created post of chief growth officer. Romer, who will be based out of New York beginning this month, comes to the organization fromThe Atlantic, where she was publisher and chief revenue officer. During her tenure there, she elevated the respected publication’s profile across multiple platforms. Art Basel additionally revealed that it has hired Craig Hepburn as chief digital officer. Expected to assume his new role in October, Hepburn will work out of Basel.

He was previously head of digital at the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), in which capacity he assisted in the debut of its platform.RelatedHELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION SUED FOR “DESTROYING” PAINTER’S LEGACYBMA CREATES PAID INTERNSHIPS HONORING VALERIE MAYNARD “I am incredibly excited and honored to welcome Hayley and Craig to the Art Basel team,” said Noah Horowitz, the company’s CEO, in a statement. “I am confident that their broad-ranging expertise, skills, vision and ambition will be instrumental as we map the next chapter of our business and seek to unlock and accelerate new opportunities for galleries, artists, collectors, partners and the broader arts ecosystem. Together, there is so much more we can do to continuously elevate and innovate our offering and to reimagine the role that Art Basel plays in the world of art.” The hires show Art Basel to be reaching outside the traditional realm of art-fair producers. The organization has undergone major leadership changes in recent years, in 2022hiringVincenzo de Bellis, a curator at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, as director of fairs and exhibition platforms, andnamingHorowitz, who had previously been its director of the Americas, CEO later that same year. In other Basel-relatednews, that city’s Galerie Knoell isset to see one of its outposts subsumedby megagallery Hauser & Wirth, which will take over its space in downtown Basel.

Founder Carlo Knoell will become a senior director of Hauser & Wirth, which has affirmed that it is not buying Galerie Knoell but strengthening the relationship between the two entities. Galerie Knoell’s second Basel space, in Erasmus House, will continue traditional operations..