{"id":67968,"date":"2025-12-22T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67968\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:44:06","slug":"pittsburgh-cultural-trust-creates-new-c-suite-role-hires-pirates-executive-to-fill-it-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67968\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Cultural Trust creates new C-suite role, hires Pirates executive to fill it \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on Thursday announced a hire to its C-suite in a newly created role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Cultural Trust said that Jason Witzberger has been named to the role of chief revenue officer, effective Jan. 5, 2026. It\u2019s a new position on the executive leadership team for the downtown-based arts organization, and the Cultural Trust said Witzberger will focus on growing its earned revenue, leading marketing and guest services efforts in order to drive ticket sales. The organization also said that he will manage revenue streams that include facility rentals, concessions and parking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Cultural Trust worked with national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller Inc. to recruit Witzberger, but they didn\u2019t have to look far \u2014 he comes to the organization after most recently serving as vice president of business intelligence for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He had been with the Pirates for 17 years, starting there as an intern in baseball operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/cultural-trust-new-c-suite-pirates.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/cultural-trust-new-c-suite-pirates.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on Thursday announced a hire to its C-suite in a newly created&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35977,18203,73,22818,75,74],"class_list":["post-67968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-c-suite-role","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-cultural-trust","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}