Shanna Hocking is the associate vice president, individual giving at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, providing strategic leadership and direction to a team of 30+ across annual, major, planned, principal, and international giving. Previously, she was the senior director of major and planned gifts at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she led the major and planned gifts program and served as a senior fundraiser for the institution, engaging alumni primarily in New York City and London. She developed and directed Wharton Women in Leadership, an initiative to engage senior executive alumnae as volunteer and philanthropic leaders with the School. She also co-taught the Penn Professional Practices in Development series for all major gifts fundraising staff at Penn. She previously worked in development at University of Alabama, Duke University and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Hocking is a frequent speaker on fundraising and leadership and her writing has been published on Fast Company, Huffington Post, Career Contessa, Forbes, and Motherly. She served as an adjunct lecturer in the Certificate for Nonprofit Management program at Johns Hopkins University. She has held volunteer leadership positions with a variety of organizations, including CASE.

She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in modern Jewish studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is a Certified Fund Raising Executive.

With more than 25 years of management and fundraising experience, Theresa Davis has a diverse background ranging from campaign management and major gifts, to corporate and foundation relations, annual giving, and alumni relations. She is currently the vice president of university advancement and CEO of the Tower Foundation at San Jose State University (SJSU). As chief advancement officer for the founding campus of the California State University system, Theresa has oversight of development, alumni and community engagement, advancement and campaign operations, campus special events, and the Tower Foundation of SJSU.

Prior to coming to SJSU, Theresa was the assistant vice president of engagement and annual programs at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She had responsibility for alumni relations, the Caltech Associates, and the Caltech Fund and Parents Program. The function of each of these areas is to advance public understanding, advocacy, and support for the institute by strategic engagement of its key constituencies.

Davis has also served as the associate vice president of college and program development at Cal State Fullerton, with responsibility for the directors of development who raise major gift-level funding in each of the campus' eight colleges and the athletics department. Additionally, she has been the associate vice president of major and planned gifts at Children's Hospital Los Angeles; campaign director for the California Science Center; senior director of development for the UCLA College; director of development for the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at UC, Riverside, and associate director of corporate relations and also director of the Alumni Fund at Caltech.

Theresa has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Arizona State University and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California.

Matthew Ter Molen provides counsel to Chancellor Kent Syverud to determine long-term expectations for a best-in-class advancement organization, including planning, timeline, allocation of resources, capacity projections, and infrastructure needs. He cultivates, secures, and stewards complex principal gifts, in partnership with the chancellor and gift officers, while creating an environment of continuous improvement for the advancement organization.

In February 2015, Ter Molen came to Syracuse from Northwestern University, where he had most recently served as associate vice president and campaign manager for “We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern,” a $3.75 billion fundraising effort.

Ter Molen graduated from Miami University in Ohio. After nearly three years in the Peace Corps in Honduras, his first fundraising position was in 1990 at the University of Chicago, where he started as an assistant director in annual giving. From 1990 to 1998, he held successive positions there, spending four years as the director for annual giving during its $500 million “Campaign for the Next Century,” as well as time as a regional major gift officer.

In 1998, Ter Molen was hired as the assistant dean for development for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, and led the arts and sciences portion of “Campaign Northwestern,” directing the fundraising of $190 million for key college priorities over a five-year period. In 2003, Ter Molen became the associate vice president for alumni relations and development at Northwestern, managing a variety of giving teams.

Holly Wolk serves as the executive director for talent management and administration for the University of Rochester and oversees recruitment, employee engagement, professional development, and employee services for more than 250 advancement professionals. In this capacity, she works with senior leadership to develop and build the next generation of advancement professionals. Her focus and passion is on helping advancement professionals develop career paths that are beneficial to themselves and the organization. During Wolk's tenure, the University of Rochester has worked to redefine its recruitment strategy from focusing on external recruitment efforts to developing staff and promoting from within the organization.

Prior to coming to the University of Rochester, Wolk held similar talent management roles at Tufts University and Boston University, where she also managed the university's employment and training function. She began her career in alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon, before transitioning to Carnegie Mellon's organizational development and human capital management department.

She has a master's degree in human resource management from Carnegie Mellon and more than 18 years of advancement experience. She has served as a presenter and faculty at CASE previously, and enjoys sharing best practices with her talent management colleagues.