SAN FRANCISCO—RestoringVision has expanded and completed the formation of its leadership team with the addition of Fredric Lomangino, new vice president of people, along with other vital roles added what the group said is a time of critical growth and global expansion of the organization’s team, programs and impact. Lomangino is responsible for human resources, talent acquisition and culture strategy as a member of the leadership team. He has successfully held positions at several other nonprofits, including the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, the global association for the attractions industry, where he led the Global HR function and helped the association double in size and expand rapidly across the globe.

Prior to that, he was the director of human resources at ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, where he supported the organization’s mission of ensuring songwriters and composers across the U.S were paid fairly for the public performances of their works. Lomangino holds a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University and is a SHRM senior certified professional (SHRM-SCP).

He succeeds Juliane Horton, who served as interim chief people officer throughout 2023 to help strengthen the RestoringVision leadership team and position the organization to scale its work over the next three years and beyond, as RestoringVision provides vision services and eyeglasses for people living in extreme poverty worldwide. 

Melissa Galloway has also been named to the position of senior manager of people operations. Galloway joined RestoringVision in October 2023 supporting the daily operations of human resources, including payroll, benefits administration, compliance, employee relations and more. She has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and office management and received her B.S. and master's degree at Towson State University. Her master's degree is in Human Resources Administration.
 
RestoringVision’s Global Programs and Impact department has also grown and has been strengthened with the addition of Jacob Gomez, MPH as its first-ever director of monitoring, evaluation, evidence and learning. Gomez joins RestoringVision with experience at Global Health Corps, Partners in Health (PIH), and Road Runners, to lead monitoring and evaluation. The addition of this new role demonstrates RestorinVision’s commitment to program quality, impact, transparency and data-driven decision-making, the announcement said. Gomez has a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University, and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington.
 
RestoringVision is a global nonprofit dedicated to ending the global vision crisis. The organization is committed to creating equitable access to vision services and eyeglasses, particularly for individuals living on less than $2 a day. One billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed, 81 percent of which could be corrected with a simple pair of reading glasses.

The organization works to solve this global crisis by partnering with an unparalleled network of more than 3,000 NGOs and government partners to provide life-changing vision screenings and eyeglasses to millions of people who could not access them otherwise. RestoringVision has reached more than 25 million people in 147 countries since 2003.