Conference 2012: Speaker Biographies
In alphabetical order by surname:
Tobin Aldrich
Tobin runs WWF’s fundraising in UK and Ireland raising £55m this year. He also helps leads WWF’s global fundraising strategy. Before WWF, Tobin headed up fundraising for NDCS, Centrepoint & Concern Worldwide and direct marketing for Sight Savers.
Patrick Boggan
Patrick Boggon is principal of Tarnside, a consultancy which works with charities of all sizes to develop strategic solutions to their fundraising needs. Patrick has helped charities raise tens of millions for capital and revenue appeals applying the principles of donor engagement.
Simon Burne
Simon joined THINK Consulting Solutions from NCH where he was Director of Marketing and Fundraising. Before that, he was Director of Fundraising and Communications at Acorns Children’s Hospice, where he had overall responsibility for fundraising and marketing. He has been involved in voluntary sector management, strategy and marketing for twenty five years, first at Intermediate Technology (now Practical Action), and subsequently at The Children’s Society. He specialises in strategic planning, organisational reviews, direct marketing, major gift fundraising, integrated marketing, PR and brand management. He has worked extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe. From 2002 to 2005, Simon was Chair of the UK Institute of Fundraising and has written and talked extensively on marketing, PR and fundraising issues
Derval Costello
Derval manages CCS Ireland and provides service to all sectors of the Irish and European non-profit community. CCS is a leading fund-raising management and consultancy firm. As part of the firm's executive management team, Derval has worked on numerous projects in Ireland, Continental Europe and the United States. She has been especially involved with pre-planning and early fund-raising initiatives for a variety of client sectors implementing capital campaigns, feasibility studies, development assessments and preliminary fund-raising activities.
Derval has provided professional leadership in major donor identification and prospect research, methods of gift requests and strategy development, volunteer relations and campaign organisation. She has directed campaigns which have raised funds from corporations, foundations, trusts and individual philanthropists for capital projects, programme needs, endowment and start-up organisations.
Conducting frequent internal training sessions as part of the firm's comprehensive programme, Derval is very involved with the professional development of CCS staff. She also presents at Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) annual conferences.
Kevin Delaney
Kevin has been community fundraiser for the Irish Cancer Society for 3 and a half years working on Daffodil Day, Pink Ribbon Appeal, Relay For Life as well as all non produced community fundraising. Previously he has been the Student City Coordinator for Palmerston North, New Zeland; Grants Assistant for the Arts Council and Event Manager for Dublin City University.
Aíne Gibbons
Aíne is Vice-President for Development in UCD. Before joining UCD, she was Director of Development at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1999 to 2007, where she spearheaded the £150m Retribuamas Campaign; the most ambitious and successful fundraising effort in the university's 156-year history.
The campaign transformed the campus by providing funding for developments such as the restoration of the Great Hall, the establishment of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, the redevelopment of the Student's Union and the building of the iconic new library.
A graduate of the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast, Aíne has worked in fundraising since 1987 - leading major campaigns for the NSPCC and MENCAP in Belfast and London. In 1998, the Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers named her Professional Fundraiser of the Year for her work with MENCAP's 50th Anniversary Blue Sky Appeal.
She remains on the faculty of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) where she teaches Campaign Fundraising. She is also a Director of the Board of the Ulster Orchestra and assists with the implementation of their challenging new fundraising strategy.
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Mike Johnston
Michael Johnston is the founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants. He has been a fundraiser for 24 years, and has worked with 100’s of organizations in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Mike is an expert in fundraising innovation and integrated campaigning – most especially in the use of digital technologies and their integration with traditional fundraising methods – from sustainer to legacy gifts. He is the author of two books: The Fund Raiser's Guide to the Internet and The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet and the editor of two books: Internet Strategies: Best Practices for Marketing, and Direct Response Fund Raising: Mastering New Trends for Results. Mike was a founding Board Member of the Washington-based e-Philanthropy Foundation, and was its first chair of its Education Committee. In addition, Michael was the founding Foundation Chair for the first global charity online lottery, www.globelot.com.
AJ Leon
AJ nomads around the world and makes things happen. AJ is a writer, blogger, speaker and founder of Misfit, Inc and GOODmisfit. he has worked with or trained over 100 non profits in the US, UK, Europe and Africa in the art of digital storytelling and the future of fundraising. He also publishes a blog on the Pursuit of Everything.
Damian O'Broin
Damian is the founder and director of Ask Direct, Ireland's leading fundraising and direct marketing agency. He has over 15 years experience helping nonprofits and charities to tell their stories, recruit supporters and raise money. He believes that convincing lots of ordinary people to support your cause is vital if you want to achieve your goals and build a sustainable organisation in the process. He is a regular speaker at conferences, tweets extensively and contributes to the SOFII blog as well as writing his own blog at askdirect.ie
Mark Pollock
Unbroken by the loss of his sight at 22 years of age and a paralyzing fall 13 years later, Mark Pollock has made surviving catastrophic change an art form and inspired audiences worldwide.
For the last decade, the blind adventure athlete competed in the harshest environments on the planet, racing to the South Pole, running a marathon at the North Pole, running six marathons in the Gobi Desert in a week and competing at high altitude in the Everest Marathon. He did all this, as well as competing against Olympic gold medallists, special forces personnel and professional explorers, in a world of total darkness.
After a life threatening fall last year, Mark is now competing against his spinal cord injury. Paralysed from the waist down, Mark’s next adventure race is against his own body, challenging conventional wisdom that there is no way out this time.
Mark’s life is a testament to human resilience and his motivational message is one of hope and courage to take control and make things happen despite the challenges that we face.
See http://www.markpollock.com/ for more.
Aline Reed
Aline is Head of Creative at Bluefrog, a London based cause marketing agency. Aline's always been interested in what makes people tick. Volunteering for Oxfam gave her a first taste of the charity sector and an appetite for more. At RNID she worked alongside some fantastic fundraisers before joining Bluefrog in 2000. Aline oversees all creative work and also makes an important contribution to planning.
Simon Scriver
Simon Scriver is Director of Total Fundraising, a service provider to the not-for-profit sector responsible for the recruitment of around 30,000 new regular donors each year. Simon has over 5 years experience in fundraising, as well as several years in experience in both Sales and Finance, and currently works with some of the biggest and smallest charities throughout the island of Ireland. He has set up a successful Telephone Fundraising department and has worked to open on-line fundraising to the smallest of organisations through the website sponsor.ie. Simon is continually looking at developing new and improving existing avenues of fundraising, helping charities to build their donor base and maximise the potential of their existing donors.
Beate Sørum
I work for the Norwegian Cancer Society where I do communication, digital and traditional fundraising, social media and digital marketing in the Norwegian Cancer Society. I love everything web and digital - and I love charities. A really good fundraising video knocks me off my feet every time. I love e-commerce, particularly social commerce, and figuring out what makes it tick. I'm also a public speaker, I love speaking about all of the above. I also write a blog on digital marketing and fundraising, which is frequently also published by the Norwegian Fundraising Council. I have spoken at several major conferences, including the Norwegian Fundraising Conference and the International Fundraising Congress (IFC Holland). For more, see http://about.me/beatesorum and http://no.linkedin.com/in/beatesorum
Chris Washington-Sare
I specialise in working on fundraising programmes for not-for-profit organisations of all sizes in Europe, Australia and developing countries. Before joining =mc, I gained nearly 20 years fundraising experience working for organisations including Central St Martin’s College of Art, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Plan International and Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Whilst in Australia I formed the Fair Fees Action Group, a coalition of over 40 organisations including Oxfam and RSPCA. The group worked with banks to increase the volume of donations from the general public. I am passionate about working with not-for-profit organisations as I believe the work they do makes the world a better, more equitable, more sustainable place in which to live. It is therefore a great privilege to work as a consultant with =mc because I have the opportunity to collaborate with so many committed people in a diverse range of inspiring organisations. After speaking at the Institute of Fundraising Conference 2011 I was rated as a Top 20 speaker.
