A former ballet dancer herself, Moore is the executive director of the American Ballet Theatre.

Moore grew up in Davis, Calif. and started taking ballet classes at the age of 11. By 13 she was practicing six days a week, and after graduating high school in 1984, she moved to New York to join ABT's corps de ballet. Her career was cut short when she sustained an injury that left her in a cast for an entire season. At 24 she enrolled at Brown, graduating in 1992 with a degree in ethics and political philosophy. After earning a master's in arts administration from Columbia, she transitioned to the business side of the performing arts world, and spent the 1990s working with a variety of groups including the National Cultural Alliance, Ballet Theatre of Boston, and Project STEP (a classical music school for minority students in Boston). Before arriving at the ABT in 2004, she served as the director of the Boston Ballet's Center for Dance Education and taught classes at Emerson College and Boston University.

When Moore arrived at the ABT in February 2004, she took over an ailing company that had gone through five different executive directors in four years. She's managed to turn things around, tripling the endowment and dramatically increasing sales. With a $40 million budget and a company of nearly 100 dancers, Moore's also been credited with thinking beyond the stage: in 2006, for example, she negotiated a deal which teamed the ABT with Payless to launch a line of ballet shoes. While Moore keeps the ABT's business running smoothly, it's Kevin McKenzie who oversees the creative direction of the company. [Image via Getty]