YMCA Interim CEO Appointed

With Somerset Valley YMCA CEO Paul Kieltyka out on medical leave, Bedminster resident Karyn Lightcap has been named as the interim CEO.

Lightcap currently serves as the chief financial officer for the Somerset Valley YMCA, and will be the leader of the branches in Bridgewater, Hillsborough and Somerville until Kieltyka returns.

According to a release from the YMCA, Lightcap has served the organization for two years.

“Karyn has already demonstrated amazing leadership qualities internally at the Somerset Valley YMCA with our staff, board of directors and members,” Andrea Thorne, board chair of the YMCA, said in the release. “I am excited that the public will now have a chance to interact with her and experience her passion for the Y and for building community partners.”

Before she joined the YMCA, the release said, Lightcap was an equity research analyst on Wall Street, with a specialty in the health care industry. She served as vice president in the equity research group at S.G. Cowen and Co.

In addition, the release said, Lightcap served for six years on the board of directors for the Somerset Hills YMCA in Basking Ridge until March 2012, and also served as treasurer.

Lightcap, a graduate of George Washington University, is currently on the board, and serves as board treasurer, for the Far Hills Country Day School.

“I have a good sense of the strategic direction that Paul wanted the Y to go in, and I look forward to moving us in that direction in his absence,” Lightcap said in the release. “We all look forward to his return when he is ready.”