Energetic, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships expert, with nearly 20 years of experience understanding the technical, programmatic, and relationship development strategies and drivers of organizations, high-net-worth donors, and public / private institutions. • Demonstrates sound leadership skills, with talent for coordinating disparate groups; builds cohesive teams, gaining buy-in from each group and fostering collaboration toward common goals.• Identifies and negotiates strategic partnerships with international and local non-profit and for-profit agencies and organizations. • Extensive experience leading critical discussions with global technical leadership in developing partnerships opportunities and securing commitments from corporations, private foundations, and government agencies (USAID). • Fifteen years of experience stewarding philanthropic investments managing multiple types of fundraising sectors, strategies, and related teams (public and private institutional opportunities, corporate partnerships, major gifts, and board engagement). • Ability to map and design revenue and partnership forecast and pipelines to guide strategic planning. • Built new strategies to diversify donor commitments, with a focus on public and private donors, while monitoring revenue growth and projections to keep the organization on track with revenue goals. • Leads proposal development teams, liaising with program, finance, communications, contracts, and field staff to ensure high quality, cohesive proposals that are grounded in solid practices and compliant with donor requirements and regulations.• Experience cultivating large, multi-million-dollar corporate partnerships to further the mission of non-profits from organizations like Apple, Netflix, Google, Humble Bundle, Weight Watchers, and This Saves Lives. • Excels at forging beneficial partnerships between NGOs and other institutions to advance organization’s mission and vision. • Experience with working with NGOs Boards and Fundraising Committees to keep Board member informed and engaged with fundraising activities. • Ability to produce varied correspondence, including capacity statements, outreach documents, technical assistance reports, memoranda, and letters, in a precise, accurate, thorough, and easily understandable manner.• Strong oral and written communication skills demonstrated over years of presenting at conferences, donor pitches, staff meetings.