Conference Chair

Kevin J. Heaney
Vice President, Constituent and Central Development Programs and Deputy Campaign Director
Oregon State University Foundation

Kevin Heaney is the vice president for constituent development programs and associate campaign director at the Oregon State University Foundation. He oversees the constituent-based development programs for the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Forestry, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Pharmacy, Science, and Veterinary Medicine, as well as the Linus Pauling Institute and the Oregon 4-H Leadership Development Program. In addition, he is part of the leadership team for OSU's first comprehensive campaign, "The Campaign for OSU: This Amazing Place, This Historic Moment."

Prior to joining the OSU Foundation, Heaney served in a variety of major gift and planned giving capacities at Georgetown University ("The Third Century Campaign"), Johns Hopkins University ("The Johns Hopkins Campaign: Knowledge for the World") and Harvard University ("The University Campaign").

He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a juris doctorate from Boston College Law School.

Faculty

Molly Brown
Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Donor Relations & Associate Campaign Director
Oregon State University Foundation

Molly Brown serves as senior director of strategic communications and donor relations and associate campaign director for the Oregon State University Foundation. She was a member of the senior management team that planned and publicly launched OSU's first capital campaign in October 2007. "The Campaign for OSU" has a goal of $625 million and stands at $565 million with 16 months to go.

Brown has been involved in development work at OSU since 1990 in positions ranging from proposal writer in corporate and foundation relations and director of prospect research to her current leadership role overseeing print, electronic and events-related marketing efforts for the OSU Foundation. She holds two degrees from Stanford University and considers her undergraduate minor in fiction writing to have been her best training for a career in marketing.

Beth Hammock
Vice President, Strategic Communications and Marketing
University of Montana Foundation

Beth Hammock leads the Strategic Communications and Marketing Department of the University of Montana Foundation. Her department is comprised of four units: strategic communications and interactive media, prospect research, donor relations and events, and annual giving-external programs. She also is the staff liaison to the Board of Trustees Marketing and Communications Committee and spokesperson for the foundation.

Hammock joined the UM Foundation in May 2010 after having served five years as director of development communications at the University of Missouri. During her first year at Missouri, the university surpassed a $600 million campaign goal and decided to extend the goal to
$1 billion. The campaign topped the billion-dollar goal at the height of the 2008 recession.

Before her work in higher education development, Hammock was director of communications for Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, who became the state's governor in 2008. Earlier, she led public relations in two large school districts: the Independence, Mo., School District and the Kansas City, Mo., School District.

For the first 12 years of her career, Hammock was a TV news producer, primarily in Kansas City. She was executive producer of a highly rated station in Savannah, Ga., at age 25. She supervised journalism students in her first position at the University of Missouri's TV station.

Hammock holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She earned her accreditation in public relations from the National Accreditation Board in 2005.

She has been involved in numerous professional and community organizations. She is a former president of the Missouri School Public Relations Association. She has served on the boards of the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge and Girl Scouts of Mid-Continent Council. She has judged the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards competition the past three years. Her own work has received national and state awards.

John P. Waterhouse
Director of Communications, Office of Marketing and Communications Development and Alumni Relations
Johns Hopkins University

John Waterhouse is the director of communications in the Johns Hopkins Development and Alumni Relations office of Marketing and Communications. He provides strategic direction for writers and content developers and informs the work of the project management and creative teams.

He has served in a variety of communications capacities since joining Johns Hopkins in 1999. He has directed and produced award-winning multimedia, print and digital communications; he managed the university's "Knowledge for the World" campaign communications; and he has led the development and delivery of regional event and other constituent engagement initiatives.

A communications professional with 18 years of experience, Waterhouse began his career as a reporter at the Daily Citizen-News in Dalton, Ga., and the Chattanooga Free-Press in Chattanooga, Tenn. He later honed his craft as a writer and editor at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md.

He earned a master's degree in management, with a concentration in marketing and communications, from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and his bachelor's in journalism and mass communication from the University of Iowa.