(New York, November 14, 2018)—The Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the election of three new members: Charles M. Diker, Ming Chu Hsu, and Edward (“Ted”) Pick. The election took place at the November 13 meeting of the Board and was announced by Daniel Brodsky, the Museum’s Chairman. Mr. Diker will be an Honorary Trustee; Ms. Hsu and Mr. Pick will serve as Elective Trustees.
“It gives me great pleasure to welcome to our Board three such distinguished individuals,” said Mr. Brodsky, in making the announcement. “In addition to their wide-ranging interests—from Native American, Asian, and modern and contemporary art to education and outreach—they share a deep conviction for the importance of museums to civic life. We look forward to collaborating with them on many projects in the years to come.”
Charles M. Diker
Charles M. Diker is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Cantel Medical Corporation, a leading provider of innovative infection-control products and services that are used by millions of patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers worldwide. He is also Chairman of Diker Management LLC, a registered investment management company that focuses primarily on the information technology sector and provides ongoing investment advice and account supervision for its clients. The firm manages the Diker Value-Tech Fund and the Wayfinder Small Cap Fund.
Over the course of his professional career, Mr. Diker has served on the boards of numerous national and multinational corporations. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Loews Corporation.
Together with his wife, Valerie, he has been actively involved at The Met as a donor and lender of Native American works of art since the 1990s. The promised gift of more than 90 outstanding examples of Indigenous art from their collection was announced in 2017, and these works are now on view in the recently opened, groundbreaking exhibition Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection in the Museum’s American Wing.
In addition to their long-term relationship with The Met, the Dikers have been ardent and generous supporters of a broad range of cultural institutions across the visual and performing arts. Mr. and Mrs. Diker served as the Founding Chairman and Chairwoman of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, in New York. Mr. Diker is a member of the board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and New York Public Radio. He has previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Santa Fe Opera Foundation, as President of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, and as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard University Art Museums. In addition to their collection of Native American art, the Dikers collect modern and contemporary art.
Mr. Diker is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Ming Chu Hsu
Ming Chu Hsu is an entrepreneur based in Hong Kong, Lisbon and New York. She is the principal owner of several multinational firms, which include real estate investment companies such as Reformosa group in Europe and Richmond Grant international Ltd In Asia. She also established Merald International Holdings, which has been a very successful private venture investment company in many high tech/ IT and medical investments. In addition, she founded and chairs Alex & Wright Inc., a vertically integrated global luxury-goods company involved in the sourcing, in-house design, manufacturing, and sale of high-end jewelry. She has been a board member of numerous corporations in the U.K., Hong Kong, and South Africa in such diverse industries as mining, aerospace, real estate, and advertising.
Ms. Hsu serves as an overseer of Columbia Business School. She has been involved with the Chinese initiatives of Orbis, an international nongovernmental organization devoted to eye health. She has been a donor to the Hong Kong International School, the Taipei American School Foundation, and the U.S.–China Institute at the University of Southern California.
In 2018, Ms. Hsu named a curatorship in the field of East Asian art in The Met’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art jointly with Daniel Xu. Ms. Hsu is also a supporter of the exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed.
Ms. Hsu is a graduate of New York University (B.S. in finance; B.A. in mathematics). She earned an Executive M.B.A. at Columbia Business School.
Ted Pick
Edward “Ted” Pick heads the institutional securities group at Morgan Stanley, where he has spent his entire working career, currently overseeing the investment banking and trading businesses. He is a member of the firm’s operating and management committees. Previously, as head of sales and trading, he led Morgan Stanley’s equities business to the world’s largest for the last five years and helped engineer a turnaround of the fixed income division. During some 15 years in the equity capital markets group, he was involved in the iconic IPOs of Google, Blackstone, broadcast.com and China Construction Bank, and helped the firm raise capital during the financial crisis. Mr. Pick is a member-at-large of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Mr. Pick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College, majoring in international politics and economics, and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
He and his wife, Betsey, have been involved with The Met since 2011. Their other interests include an Endowed Scholarship Fund at Middlebury College; Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust; Student Advocacy; and Figure Skating in Harlem, which provides educational and artistic opportunities for young women of color.
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November 14, 2018
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