Phoenix Art Museum appoints new Chief Financial Officer

Jun, 20, 2025

Board of Trustees and Leadership

Phoenix Art Museum appoints new Chief Financial Officer

Ting Zeng will provide strategic oversight of financial planning, budgeting, and reporting for PhxArt

PHOENIX (June 20, 2025) – Phoenix Art Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Ting Zeng as the institution’s new Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Zeng will provide strategic oversight of financial planning, budgeting, and reporting, including for the Museum’s endowment. Prior to the appointment, she served for five years as the Museum’s controller. Her new role at Phoenix Art Museum takes effect immediately.  

“We are thrilled to welcome Ting Zeng to the executive team at Phoenix Art Museum,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “As we prepare the institution for growth and greater sustainability over the coming years, Ting’s wealth of expertise in the non-profit and public-accounting sectors, coupled with her strong, steady leadership style, will be critical to the financial stability of the institution.”

Zeng has nearly two decades of combined professional experience in public accounting and industry and more than 10 years of experience in not-for-profit financial management. Prior to joining the Museum, she served as Controller at Crisis Response Network (now Solari Crisis and Human Services.), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people in need by creating and managing comforting and supportive programs and processes that help them through crisis. In that role, she was responsible for management of all accounting functions, annual budgets, and financial policies and procedures.

Previously, Zeng held the positions of finance and budget manager at Lifewell Behavioral Wellness (now merged with Terros Health), as well as auditor and consultant roles at BDO USA, Clifton Gunderson (now CLA-CliftonLarsonAllen), and KPMG. She earned a Master of Accountancy and Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy and Management from Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business. Zeng is also a licensed CPA and a Certified Internal Auditor.

For more information, contact the Museum’s Communications Office at samantha.andreacchi@phxart.org or press@phxart.org.

About Phoenix Art Museum

Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art and fashion of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and art experiences. Each year, more than 250,000 guests engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions, as well as the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion. The Museum also presents vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson and is home to The Gene and Cathy Lemon Art Research Library, The Thorne Miniature Rooms, The Ullman Center for the Art of Philip C. Curtis, and Arizona Costume Institute (ACI). For the community, PhxArt hosts lectures, live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education workshops, family-focused programs, and more. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.