Mark Curtis
Director of Development
New College, University of Oxford

Mark is the director of development at New College, University of Oxford, where he manages a team of three responsible for all aspects of development and alumni relations. He is responsible for the development of the College's first fundraising campaign which aims to raise £55 million over the next five years. Prior to joining New College in April 2011, Mark was the development director at Oriel College in Oxford for six years. His previous experience includes running the development programme at Christ's Hospital, a boarding school for 850 boys and girls whose families pay only what they can afford, and corporate fundraising at London Business School where he was associate director for corporate relations and led the School's Corporate Partnership Programme.

Anne M. Berry
Senior Associate
Washburn & McGoldrick, Inc.

Anne has led or assisted campaigns that have raised over $100,000,000 during her career, including Lebanon Valley's recent campaign that exceeded its goal with over $55,000,000. Prior to joining LVC she operated her own fundraising consulting business and held vice president or director level positions at four institutions, including two colleges, a graduate school of business, and hospital/medical school system. Berry has served as a frequent CASE speaker, as a CASE Trustee, and as chair of CASE District II in the U.S. She received CASE's Crystal Apple Award for teaching in 1997.

Robert Burdenski
Principal
Robert Burdenski Annual Giving

Burdenski is an internationally-recognised expert in annual and regular giving fundraising strategies, spending more than twenty-two years in fundraising and consulting for the past sixteen. He has worked with more than 200 institutions around the world over that time. He is author of the best-selling CASE books Innovations in Annual Giving: Ten Departures That Worked and More Innovations in Annual Giving: Ten Global Departures That Worked.

Burdenski has presented multiple CASE Annual Giving Masterclasses in the UK over the years, and he presented CASE's first-ever annual giving programs in India, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Burdenski is a seven-time faculty member of the annual CASE Europe Spring Institute in Educational Fundraising, and a four-time faculty member of the CASE Asia Pacific Institute in Educational Fundraising.

Known for sharing many examples from many institutions in his talks, he is a 2008 recipient of the CASE Crystal Apple for his excellence in educating—and entertaining—his audiences.

Sam Davies
Director of Development and Alumni
University of Brighton

Sam became Brighton's first Director of Development and Alumni in August 2008. She began fundraising whilst at Warwick as a student caller for their first-ever telephone campaign in 1997. Following two years managing telephone campaigns as a consultant, Sam returned to Warwick full-time to run their campaigns and subsequently all other Annual Giving activities.

Martin Kaufman
Principal
Martin Kaufman Philanthropy

Fundraising for more than 20 years, Martin Kaufman was Director of Development at the Museum of London, one of the world's great urban history museums up until December 2012. After running campaigns for the UK's National Trust, the London School of Economics, the Architectural Association, and the Hackney Empire Theatre, Kaufman was Senior Consultant in the major gift consultancy Brakeley, working for 70 organisations in education, culture, healthcare and welfare in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. A frequent speaker at CASE and other conferences, next year will see his seventh year as a faculty member at the Spring Institute. He is proud to consider himself the world expert in the use of unaccompanied singing in the pedagogy of philanthropy.

Colin McCallum
Executive Director, University Advancement
University of Salford

Colin McCallum is Executive Director, University Advancement at the University of Salford. He has over twenty five years' experience in leading higher education and cultural development and marketing. Recent roles include President of Glasgow Caledonian University Foundation and Chief Executive of leading international philanthropic consulting firm Grenzebach Glier + Associates in Europe - and he remains a Vice-President of the firm. Previously McCallum served as: Director, Marketing and Development, at the National Museums of Scotland; Director, External Affairs and Development at the University of Strathclyde (running a programme which won Gold in the UK Professional Fundraising Awards for the best educational campaign); Development Officer St Hilda's College, Oxford and Alumni Relations Officer at the University of Edinburgh. His career began in The Netherlands where he was Promotions Manager with Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

McCallum graduated in English and Business Studies with a BA and an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Board of Scottish Opera and he is a regular speaker at CASE events and conferences across Europe. He is a trustee of CASE Europe.

Joanna Motion
Partner
More Partnership

Joanna started her career with Oxfam, and worked for 20 years for universities in the UK and Australia. During a decade with CASE, as vice president for international operations she oversaw dynamic growth in advancement activity across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America. The University of Kent and Loughborough University have awarded Joanna Honorary Doctorates in recognition of her championing of change encouraging philanthropy and service on many government-led advisory groups and forums. Joanna joined the international fundraising consultancy, More Partnership, in 2011. She is the lead writer of the 2012 HEFCE "Review of Philanthropy in UK Higher Education".

Kate Robertson
Director of Development and Alumni Relations
The University of Nottingham

Kate Robertson graduated from the University of Liverpool (Chester College) in 1990 with a BA Combined Honours in History and Drama (2:i) completing a dissertation on state versus private support of theatres, from which her career in fundraising was launched. She has spent 14 years fundraising in arts in the UK, including positions with English National Opera, Tate Liverpool, Arts and Business (North West), the Royal Academy of Arts and Somerset House, covering the full spectrum of individual, trust and foundation and corporate support.

She moved to the Higher Education sector in 2004 when she joined the University of Liverpool to establish the University's first in-house Development and Alumni Relations office. In September 2009, she moved to the University of Nottingham to lead their £150M campaign. Robertson has been a member of the UK's Higher Education Ross Group of Development Directors since 2006.

Charlotte Rydh
Secretary General
AFS Intercultural Programs, Sweden

Charlotte has more than 15 years experience of capital campaign management, major gift fundraising, alumni relations, marketing and organisational development from a number of different organisations. She was the first in Sweden to fundraise from alumni and later ran the first capital campaign for a state university. Charlotte has worked internationally in Europe and Asia, and has been involved in CASE both as speaker and a member of the Board of Trustees. At the end of 2012, Charlotte joined the non-profit international educational organisation AFS as Director of the Swedish operations.

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

Working in University Advancement since 1988, Lorna Somers has been involved in fundraising programs spanning the Annual Fund to establishing the first Office of Gift Planning and the Major and Principal Giving programs. The recently completed Campaign for McMaster, for which she was appointed Campaign Director, closed with $474 million raised against a $400 million goal. She had previously served as Campaign Director for the University's $100 million Changing Tomorrow Today campaign, where her team also exceeded their goal by 30% at the campaign's close in 2001. A series of targeted campaigns followed, with the most notable achievement being the securing of the largest cash gift in Canadian history in 2003.

Somers is a regular faculty member for CASE and in 2002, she was awarded the prestigious CASE Crystal Apple for excellence in teaching. Somers also recently completed six years on CASE's Board of Trustees, chairing the International Committee for four of those years, and has fulfilled an earlier three year appointment on the Commission on Philanthropy. She received the Frank Ashmore Award in 2011 for outstanding service to CASE and the Advancement profession. Over the past ten years, through CASE sponsorship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur Foundation, Somers has been working with academics and fund-raising professionals in East, West and South Africa, leading on-site workshops as well as sessions tailored to University leadership.

In addition to writing, teaching and working with a full spectrum of charities and their boards around the world, Somers continues to be active as an advocate on behalf of the charitable sector with both federal and provincial governments. She has made numerous presentations to the Ministry of Finance regarding improved legislation for charitable giving. Somers received degrees from McMaster University in English and in Art History and after graduating, spent six years in the curatorial department of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, in addition to teaching Art History through McMaster's Department of Continuing Education.