19th Annual Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations

Faculty

Conference Chair

Tiffani K. Shaw
Executive Vice President, COO & CFO
University of Iowa Foundation

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Planning Committee

Laura Brehm
President and CEO
University of Montana Foundation

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Virginia Foltz
Vice President of Financial Services, CFO and Treasurer
Arizona State University Foundation

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Glenn Kaufhold
Principal
GKollaborative

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Keller Young
Vice President and General Counsel
University of Colorado Foundation

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Faculty

Pamela Cox-Otto
President
Interact Communications

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Ed Davis
President
Texas A&M Foundation

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Robert Glidden
President Emeritus
Ohio University

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Catherine Gordon
Principal
Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services

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Erin Hall-Westfall
Director, Recruitment and Talent Management, Office of University Development
University of Michigan

Erin Hall-Westfall is the director of recruitment and talent management for the Office of University Development at the University of Michigan. She is responsible for the creative and strategic direction of recruitment marketing and engagement strategies to help develop and build a national and regional talent pool. She leads a team that provides recruitment, retention and liaison support to the development community at Michigan. She also provides leadership and counsel on staff structure, human resources policies, market review and compensation.

Hall-Westfall received her bachelor's degree in sociology and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. Prior to coming to Michigan in 2004, she worked at Northwestern University from 2001-2004 as assistant director of personnel and business resources for the Office of Alumni Relations and Development, and as assistant director for alumni education.

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William Jarvis
Managing Director
Commonfund Institute

William Jarvis is managing director at Commonfund Institute in Wilton, Conn.

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Paul Lanning
President and CEO
Foundation for California Community Colleges

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John Lippincott
President
Council for Advancement and Support of Education

In 2004, John Lippincott became president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the professional association for alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing officials at colleges, universities and independent schools around the globe.

As president, he provides strategic and operational leadership for one of the largest associations of education-related institutions in the world. During his tenure he has overseen creation of principles of practice in each of the advancement disciplines, development of ongoing operations in the Asia Pacific region, strengthening of the organization's financial position, and enhancement of CASE's relationships with members, districts and other associations.

Lippincott joined the CASE staff in 1999 as vice president for communications and marketing, with management responsibility for CURRENTS magazine, CASE Books, organizational communications, integrated marketing, government relations and special projects.

Prior to his arrival at CASE, he served for 12 years as associate vice chancellor for advancement at the University System of Maryland. In that capacity, he provided public relations counsel to the leadership of the 13-institution system, created an award-winning public television series, played a key role in state relations and provided communications support for two system-wide fundraising campaigns.

Lippincott has also held public relations posts at Ithaca College in New York and at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. He began his career teaching humanities courses at community colleges in Connecticut, New York and Oregon. Both his bachelor's and master's degrees are from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
He has served on the board of the American Council on Education, the major coordinating body for U.S. higher education, as well as on Independent Sector's ethics and accountability committee and the Washington Higher Education Secretariat's steering committee.

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Mark David Milliron
Deputy Director, Postsecondary Improvement, US Program
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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Tom Mitchell
Executive Vice President
University of Florida Foundation

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Stacy Palmer
Editor
Chronicle of Philanthropy

Stacy Palmer is editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the number-one news source in the nonprofit world. She has served as a top editor since the newspaper was founded in 1988 and has overseen the development of its websites, Philanthropy.com and Philanthropy Careers.

Palmer regularly is a featured speaker or panel moderator at The Chronicle's own conferences and webinars, as well as those sponsored by organizations such as CauseWired Communications; the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy; the Council for Advancement and Support of Education; onPhilanthropy.com, the media arm of international philanthropic services company Changing Our World Inc.; National Student Partnerships; the Philanthropy Roundtable; the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network; the Urban Institute; the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network.

Before she joined the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Palmer was editor for government and politics at the Chronicle of Higher Education. She received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Brown University in 1982. She has been an active alumnus, serving on numerous alumni boards, including chairing the Brown Alumni Magazine.

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Kathleen Pickard
Chief Financial Officer
University of Minnesota Foundation

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Leonard Raley
President and CEO
University System of Maryland Foundation

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Melissa Starace
Director of Alumni Affairs
Northampton Community College

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R.J. Valentino
President and Co-founder
The Napa Group

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