Meet the Planning Committee
Meet the Chairs
Charlotte Dewhurst
Charlotte Dewhurst is Associate Director of Development within the University of Oxford's Central Development Office where her responsibilities include DARS (Development and Alumni Relations Systems), Regular Giving and Gift Administration. Before she joined Oxford 2.5 years ago Charlotte worked for 15 years at the Scientific, Technical and Medical Publisher, Elsevier, in roles covering marketing strategy, communications and operations, as well as customer engagement, customer experience and business intelligence.
Kate Brook
Kate moved into the role of Director of Services in Development & Alumni at the University of Edinburgh in March 2018, following three years heading up the department's Research team. In her new position, Kate oversees the work of the Finance, IT support and projects, Research and Insight teams and works closely with the Executive Director on governance and compliance projects. With over 20 years' fundraising experience, and a specialist in prospect research from 2000, Kate has worked with a wide range of organisations, most recently in the higher education sector in Scotland having started her fundraising career in London with roles at the Natural History Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Meet the Planning Committee
Sarah Baker
Sarah joined the University of Cambridge's Development and Alumni Relations office as the head of prospect information and analysis in 2013, during the quiet phase of the University's £2B Dear World, Yours Cambridge Campaign. Sarah manages several teams that provide research, prospect and knowledge management, analytics and business intelligence. She was previously Director of Prospect Development at the University of California, Berkeley, where the team supported the successful $3B Campaign for Berkeley. Sarah started her fundraising career at the University of Bristol where she was a member of the small team that initiated Bristol's first comprehensive fundraising campaign. Sarah loves data and developing systems, tools and processes that support effective and efficient fundraising.
Jennie Moule
Jennie is Founding Partner at fundraising operations consultancy, Alveo Consulting. She built her experience as Director of Development Strategy and Operations at University College London for over 10 years, where she managed fundraising operations overseeing prospect research, database, gift administration, budgeting, HR and facilities. She also led strategy and planning, particularly for their £600m campaign launched in September 2016. Jennie is currently Interim Director of Advancement Services at the University of Cambridge.
A firm believer in sharing experience, driving improvement and giving practical support to those in the sector, Jennie is a sought-after speaker, trainer, mentor and coach. She was Interim Executive Director of CASE Europe from March to July 2017. In that assignment, she fulfilled a lead role in advocacy and thought leadership around GDPR and other fundraising regulation issues, meeting regularly with the ICO, DCMS and the Fundraising Regulator. Jennie was chair of the inaugural CASE Development Services conference in 2008 and remains a member of the planning committee 16 years later.
Katherine Muller
Chris Webber
Chris has expertise in designing an institution-wide approach to empower Advancement professionals to succeed. By engineering innovative infrastructure, technology and guiding culture that underpins creating change, Chris helps to achieve superior value in the philanthropic supporter experience. Joining the Royal Academy of Music in 2017, Chris is working with a platform of visionary campaign & marketing professionals to provide a meaningful, evidence-based and comprehensive philanthropic campaign showcasing 200 years of the Academy. Chris values an open and simplistic approach to operations. He believes the skills that create successful operations are to have a problem solver mind-set and design & deliver filtered-efficient-purposeful real time information with colleagues in a fast-paced environment. This ultimately builds confidence in, and advances, the strategic direction of travel.
Chris has worked in Higher Education Advancement spanning arts and culture, American liberal arts and UK research & teaching university experience.
Jude Alldred
Jude Alldred is Deputy Director, Develop Services at the University of Manchester. Before she joined the team at Manchester she sent time in Australia and has done similar roles at La Trobe University, Monash, the University of Queensland as well as at King’s College London. Prior to working in education, Jude worked in a number of development operations roles across arts and heritage and the charity sectors starting out as a Database Manager for Sense in the days of Raiser’s Edge for DOS! She has been involved in the development of a number of fundraising campaigns including World Questions: King’s Answers at KCL. During her career her responsibilities have included data and systems, finance and gift processing, research and prospect management, stewardship, governance and HR.