This event is being chaired by Susie Hills, director of development and alumni relations, at the University of Exeter.

Speakers

Susie Hills
Director of Development and Alumni Relations
University of Exeter

Susie Hills grew up in Devon, the daughter of an Exeter University lecturer, and studied Politics at Durham University. She has 15 years' experience of communications, fundraising and marketing. Prior to joining the University of Exeter in 2006 Hills worked as Corporate Responsibility Manager for Tesco PLC, taking responsibility for reporting on Tesco's social, environmental and ethical performance indicators and developing relationships with Non-Governmental Organisations. Hills has led fundraising campaigns for the Young Vic Theatre, Royal Grammar School and managed fundraising, publicity and volunteering for Samaritans and ActionAid. Under Hill's leadership the University of Exeter launched a £23m campaign last year and will be closing it early with fundraising and volunteering targets exceeded. The University of Exeter Development and Alumni Relations Office was awarded the Times Higher Education Outstanding Fundraising Team of the Year 2009-2010. Hills is married with two sons and lives in the heart of Mid-Devon.

Nicholas Bull
Chairman
De Vere Group

Nicholas Bull graduated from Exeter University in Chemistry in 1973. He then trained as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently spent 30 years in banking, working in London, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. He now splits his time between his business interests and pro bono roles.

Currently, Bull is chairman of the hotel group De Vere, a director of the investment trust Fidelity China Special Situations and chairman of the advisory board of City stockbroker Westhouse Securities. He is a member of Council of Exeter University, a trustee of the Design Museum, a trustee of the Conran Foundation and chairman of the Thames Traditional Rowing Association. From 2007 to 2011 he chaired the Exeter University Fundraising Campaign Board which raised £25million for a combination of new buildings and research.

Moyra Doyle
Managing Director
Richmond Associates

Moyra Doyle brings extensive experience of strategic planning and human resource management to client organisations. She has worked with some of the leading cultural and education institutions in the United Kingdom, including the Universities of Oxford and Cambrige, LSE, Tate, British Museum, National Gallery, London Business School, Save The Children and UNICEF.

Prior to founding Richmond Associates, Doyle played a senior role in organisational and strategic change initiatives at Southbank Centre, the world's largest performing arts centre, where she was Development Director. In that post she was responsible for all of the Centre's non-performance income, extending across fundraising, corporate sponsorship, corporate membership, licensing, retail shops both managed and franchised, conferences and catering operations. For five years before that she managed a department of 35 staff in London, Toronto and Sydney for the specialist training video division of BBC Worldwide.

In addition to her BEd degree, she has participated in extensive management training and has an MA in the Management of Human Resources. Doyle is a member of CASE's Industry Advisory Council and a regular speaker for CASE Europe and CASE Asia-Pacific. She is also a member of the Institute of Fundraising, CIPD, REC and a fellow of the RSA.

Craig Pollard
Freelance Fundraising and Development Consultant

Craig Pollard was an accountant when he first got into fundraising. His first experience was voluntary, organising challenge events for a charity that ran summer camps for children with serious and life-limiting illnesses. His first ‘proper' fundraising job was with Turning Point, the addiction and mental health charity, and he was responsible for securing large grants from companies, government and trusts and foundations. Pollard went on to manage the fundraising at AMREF (the African Medical & Research Foundation), the largest African health charity. He led the team that grew fundraising from £300,000 per year to more than £2.1 million per year. He initiated and managed key corporate partnerships, a successful major giving programme and the ‘Katine' campaign in Uganda with the Guardian and Barclays.

Pollard moved into higher education in 2008. He led the development and alumni relations team at SOAS that grew fundraising income from £600,000 (in 2007/08) to more than £11 million (in 2010/11) and the school therefore comfortably maximised the UK government's Matched Funding Scheme. Most recently, he set up the charity ‘Cycle Africa' and returned to the UK in August 2012, having led a successful year-long 17,000 km cycling expedition from London to Cape Town via the Middle East, that raised more than £50,000 for street children. Since January, he has been working as a freelance fundraising/development consultant working with a broad range of clients in higher education and the charity sector.

Catherine Wolfgang
Deputy Director of Development and Alumni Relations
University of Exeter

Catherine Wolfgang has over 20 years fundraising experience. Starting as a door-knocker for Friends of the Earth she has worked across a wide range of organisations, from overseas development through the arts to higher education. Her first full-time role was at WaterAid where a focus on fundraising for specific overseas projects developed into responsibility for Community Fundraising. After four years gaining a strong grounding in fundraising methodology and principles, she joined Leonard Cheshire and led a review of local fundraising and volunteering which led to establishing a team of 10 regionally based fundraisers raising money through local capital appeals. Wolfgang then joined the British Lung Foundation as Head of Fundraising where she and her team increased voluntary income from £3m to £6m over two years. After a short time in consultancy, she joined the University of Exeter where she helped design and deliver their first philanthropic income and volunteering campaign which raised £25m and generated 8,000 hours of alumni volunteering.

Elizabeth Zeigler
President and Managing Director
Graham-Pelton Consulting, USA

Elizabeth Zeigler serves as President of Graham-Pelton Consulting's primary business division managing the strategic growth of the division and overseeing the central operational functions that service all divisions of Graham-Pelton. She also provides executive management and counsel to select client engagements. Some of her clients include the Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Public Service at The City College of New York, the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), The Madeira School, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Virginia Military Institute Foundation.

Before Graham-Pelton, Zeigler served Fordham University as Director of Individual Giving for four undergraduate colleges and five graduate schools. During the university's $150 million campaign, she secured leadership gifts and led a team of annual fund professionals that nearly doubled the alumni participation rate. She also served on the development team for Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. An English and Business graduate of Muhlenberg College, Zeigler also holds a master's degree in Adult Education and Human Resource Development from Fordham University. She recently completed the Leading Professional Service Firms Executive Education program at Harvard Business School.