Lindsey Spindle

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ABOUT LINDSEY SPINDLE

Lindsey Spindle serves as President and Board Director of the Samueli Family Philanthropies. Appointed by Henry and Susan Samueli in March 2022, Lindsey\'s remit is to rapidly build a creative, high-performance constellation of activities that can meet Henry and Susan\'s diversified, intensified philanthropic ambitions. Lindsey presides over philanthropic organizations including, but not limited to, the Samueli Foundation and Anaheim Ducks Foundation; she is also a senior strategy advisor for H&S Ventures.Lindsey has been a philanthropic executive for a decade. Previously she was President of The Jeff Skoll Group, where she connected and advised Mr. Skoll’s portfolio of philanthropic and commercial organizations that include the impact entertainment company Participant, Capricorn Investment Group, and the Skoll Foundation. Lindsey remains a Board director for The Skoll Foundation. The common thread in Lindsey’s career is her dedication to shaping organizations and campaigns that improve people’s lives, particularly women and children. She was the first-ever Chief Communications and Brand Officer of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit focused on ending childhood hunger in America through its groundbreaking No Kid Hungry campaign. Under her leadership, The No Kid Hungry campaign won PR Week’s prestigious Non-Profit Campaign of the Year in 2015 and increased participation in federal meal programs by several million children year over year. Before focusing on domestic hunger eradication, Lindsey spent nearly 20 years in health care communications, policy, and government relations working for some of the nation’s most respected commercial and non-profit organizations. These include Georgetown University, Brookings, and Porter Novelli. Lindsey has shaped major national campaigns such as the groundbreaking ‘truth’ campaign that curbed youth smoking by 30% in one year and was eventually named by Advertising Age as one of the top ten ad campaigns of the 21st century; increased patient safety through reduced medical errors; and secured bipartisan Congressional funding for improving health care safety and quality. Lindsey was a member of the pioneer class of girls to attend the Lawrenceville School outside of Princeton, New Jersey, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She’s a fourth generation native Washingtonian turned California transplant along with her husband David and two children. In her spare time, Lindsey is a professional hockey fanatic, book-a-week reader, adventurous eater, and reformed distance runner turned Peloton enthusiast.