Asia-Pacific Institute in Educational Fundraising

Meet Your Faculty

Outstanding practitioners themselves, each CASE faculty member brings a wealth of experience and expertise to share with you.

Chair

Ann Badger (Director - College Advancement, Ormond College)

Faculty

Jo Agnew (Agnew Associates)

Angela Chapman (National University of Singapore)

Rob Henry (CASE)

William McGoldrick (Washburn & McGoldrick)

Michael Miller (formerly with the American School in London)

Clare Pullar ( Pro Vice Chancellor (Advancement), University of Queensland )

Lorna Somers (McMaster University and McMaster University Foundation)

 

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Faculty Biographies

Ann Badger, Conference Chair
Director of College Advancement, Ormond College,
University of Melbourne

Ann Badger is currently the director of college advancement at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. Prior to this, she was director of community relations at Melbourne Grammar School for more than ten years. In both positions she has been responsible for all advancement areas including alumni, community, marketing, communications and fundraising.

Ann is a past president of both ADAPE Vic/Tas and ADAPE Australasia Inc and was the recipient of that organisation’s peak award in 2000. She has presented at CASE conferences in the United States, Asia Pacific and Europe.

A past teacher of English at both the secondary and tertiary level, Ann has a particular interest in professional development and raising the profile and standards of advancement within Australasia and globally.

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Jo Agnew
Director
Agnew Associates, Australia

Jo Agnew is a successful fundraising consultant with a wealth of international experience. Based in Perth, she consults to a range of educational and charity clients around the world. Jo works with clients to ensure that clear thinking leads to creative strategies and rigorous systems. She is passionate about creating an environment where people feel empowered and have the courage and determination to raise significant funds for their organisation.

Throughout her advancement career, Jo has been a regular contributor to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and a leading force for the establishment of the CASE Spring Institute in Durham (UK), which she chaired for the first two years. Jo is the first Australasian to win a CASE Apple for excellence in training.

Jo came for a background in Public Relations and Policy Development within the Government of Western Australia. In 1993, she moved to the UK where she established the Development and Alumni Office of King’s College London. Over her seven years with King’s her team built up an effective database, alumni programme and introduced an annual fund, legacies and major gift programme. She also led the College through the ‘quiet stage’ of King’s first capital campaign.
In 2000, Jo moved to New York where she led Oxford University’s North American office for three years. Highlights included launching the international campaign for the Bodleian Library and increasing income to the University over a trying economic time.

In 2004, Jo moved back to the UK where she established Agnew Associates, working for a variety of educational and charity clients around the world. Her work includes strategic advice, training and coaching in all areas of fundraising, alumni relations and communications.

Jo is now based in Perth, Western Australia, where she is working with a range of clients in Australia, the UK and Africa.

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Angela Chapman
Director, Campaign Planning
National University of Singapore

Angela Chapman has more than 15 years progressive experience in development, alumni relations, communications and marketing for universities across three continents. Angela joined the National University of Singapore from Nanyang Business School, Singapore where she the Development Director for three years. From 2004 through to 2006, Angela was the Director of Development and Alumni Relations at the Australian Graduate School of Management (Sydney), and prior to moving overseas, Angela contributed to development and alumni relations for more than a decade at the Richard Ivey School of Business (Western Ontario) and McGill University in her native Canada.

Angela has been a speaker with CASE, Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and other fundraising and alumni relations bodies in North America, Australia and Asia. Most recently, she delivered a highly rated session at the CASE Asia-Pacific Advancement conference in Hong Kong on the impact of institutional branding on fundraising success. She read History and Russian at McGill University and qualified for an MBA from Laval University in Canada. She is also a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).

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Rob Henry
Executive Director, Emerging Constituencies –
CASE

Rob Henry has acquired extensive managerial and development experience during his nineteen-year professional career. Currently, he serves as the executive director of emerging constituencies with the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In this role, Mr. Henry provides leadership for initiatives designed to engage and serve selected CASE US and international constituencies with significant emphasis on efforts to increase advancement in diverse populations and cultures. In addition he oversees the CASE career center and the student advancement programs.

Mr. Henry previously served as director of individual giving at Yale University, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive annual and special gift fundraising program, soliciting donors of $100,000+, and managing the volunteer program for the School of Management. He has also served as assistant vice president of special and annual giving at the University of Connecticut Foundation, and began his development career at Michigan State University.

In each advancement position, Mr. Henry has significantly raised support and participation while simultaneously assessing the potential of the emerging market. This experience, coupled with his attention to fundamental infrastructure practices, has allowed him to offer training and development to international markets such as Ghana, South Africa, London and Mexico. This valuable feedback has translated into increased results, improved messages and enhanced efficiencies. Mr. Henry’s specialties include high-end asks (special/major gifts), budget management, staff motivation, infrastructure development, and fundraising for diverse populations.

Mr. Henry often presents at CASE conferences and served as a board member for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Foster Child Scholarship program and 4-H Extension Council. He was also awarded the CASE Crystal Apple for teaching excellence in 2005. He holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Murray State University and a master’s degree in communication and public address from Eastern Michigan University.

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Bill McGoldrick
Principle
WASHBURN & McGOLDRICK, INC

During his 38 year career in educational advancement, Bill McGoldrick has built a reputation as a successful professional and an outstanding teacher, speaker and consultant. His skills, experience and passion for education led him to join Sue Washburn to establish Washburn & McGoldrick, Inc. in 1995.

Washburn & McGoldrick limits its practice to educational institutions and has served more than 130 clients since its founding. Bill has consulted at many of the finest universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. His consultations have included board, volunteer and staff training, campaign planning and counsel, campaign readiness studies, advancement program planning and assessment, retreat facilitation, and alumni relations and communications programs reviews.

Bill served Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Director of Development for five years and as Vice President for eleven years leading the alumni relations, communications and development programs, and two campaigns that secured more than $260 million. He also served as a major gift director in a $20 million campaign at The College of William and Mary, as public relations director at the State University of New York at Oswego and at Harrisburg (PA) Area Community College.

He has been active regionally, nationally and internationally with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and served on CASE's Board of Trustees. He has been a faculty member at many CASE professional development programs and programs sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards (AGB). He was a faculty member at CASE's flagship educational fund raising conferences at Dartmouth College and at the University of Durham in England.

He has been a featured speaker on capital campaign management at the AGB National Conference on Trusteeship and has spoken at international conferences on fund raising and campaign management in the United Kingdom and Australia. He has authored chapters in three books related to development and campaigning.

CASE Middle Atlantic District presented him with its Professional of the Year Award in 1990. In 1993, the Hudson-Mohawk Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives named him its Fund Raising Executive of Distinction.

Bill earned a bachelor's degree in English from Siena College and a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University. He served two years as Public Affairs Officer in the United States Navy.

He is active as a board member for various community organizations. He served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the Siena College Alumni Association and is currently a member of Siena College’s Board of Associate Trustees.

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Mike Miller
Partner and President
MLW Consulting, Inc
Director of External Affairs, the American School in London (retired)
Past Chair, European Council of Independent Schools Development Committee

Mike Miller is a 40-year veteran of independent advancement. He is a frequent speaker at CASE, NAIS, ECIS, IDPE and regional associations around the world and for eight years taught the summer institute (Independent School Management) in educational fundraising for newcomers to development and international schools. Mike recently retired as both Director of External Affairs at the American School in London and as chair of the ECIS Development Committee, positions he held for 10 years and 8 years respectively. Mike has chaired both major school advancement conferences in the United States and Europe and is a recipient of CASE’s Robert Bell Crow Award for Excellence in the Independent Advancement Field, as well as a designated Blue Ribbon Principal (secondary) by the U. S. Department of Education.

Mike has experience in day and boarding schools, single gender and co-ed institutions, K-12 and religiously affiliated schools, merged schools and multiple campus facilities, start-up development programs and sophisticated, multi-faceted departments. His strengths are in the areas of development office operations, all areas of fundraising with a particular emphasis on advancement in multi-cultural environments, integration of development programs into the school community, establishment and on-going support of a US 501(c)(3) organization, school communications and board and school management.

Mike is now a consultant specializing in international school advancement.

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Clare Pullar
Pro Vice Chancellor (Advancement)
University of Queensland

Clare Pullar has worked in educational fundraising for 22 years in both tertiary and secondary sectors. She is currently Pro Vice Chancellor (Advancement) at the University of Queensland.

Previously, she Director of Advancement at the Melbourne Business School and Director of Development at Trinity College in the University of Melbourne where she led the fundraising efforts which raised $24 million in gifts from communities in Australia, Asia, and Nth America. In 2006, she was awarded both the Trevor Wigney Award and the Peter Crook Award for outstanding service in Advancement in Australasian education.

Clare has a depth of experience in both strategy and operational aspects of raising substantial financial support for all aspects of education – research, endowed professorships, scholarships and infrastructure. She has a special interest in organisational change, equity and diversity and played a leadership role in transforming Trinity College’s engagement with indigenous education and attracted substantial philanthropic support for that effort.

In 2006 Clare was a member of B-Hert (Business Higher Education Round Table) taskforce examining how philanthropic support for Australian higher education institutions could be increased.

Clare is a Board member of the Melba Conservatorium of Music and Janet Clark Hall, University of Melbourne and advises educational and arts organizations in philanthropic fundraising. She also serves on the board of the Australian Youth Orchestra. She is former President of ADAPE Vic/Tas (Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education). She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy/History) and Diploma of Education, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

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Lorna Somers
Director of Development
McMaster University and
Vice President
McMaster University Foundation

Lorna is Vice President of McMaster University Foundation and Director of Development of the University, located in Hamilton, Canada. Working in university advancement since 1988, Lorna has been involved in the establishment and management of comprehensive fundraising programmes, including principal and major gift fundraising, gift planning, corporate and foundation giving programmes and the University's Annual Fund. She is currently directing the largest campaign in the University's history - the $400 million "Campaign for McMaster". Lorna regularly speaks at CASE events around the world, including the European, African and Asia-Pacific regions' Annual Conferences, and currently serves on the CASE Board of Trustees and is Chair of the International Committee.

 

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This faculty member has earned a CASE Crystal Apple award in recognition of excellence in teaching at 10 or more conferences, workshops, and institutes.