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Joined Executive Team as XPRIZE celebrates its 30-year anniversary with a proven model for solving grand challenges and ambitious plans to scale for the next 30 years and beyond. Developed and implemented a fully integrated fundraising strategy that will drive sustainable growth and enable XPRIZE to significantly scale global impact across 7 grand challenge areas which are: • Biodiversity and Conservation• Climate and Energy• Learning and Society• Health• Food, Water & Waste• Deep Tech and Quantum• Exploration At XPRIZE, we believe all problems are solvable and that the power to solve them lies in the collective brainpower of the world. We drive 33X impact for every dollar invested through a highly leveraged and rigorous process for creating and executing incentive-based competitions at global scale.

Lead ALSAC's individual giving and corporate fundraising initiatives which includes major gifts, corporate partnerships, bequests, foundations, employee giving and sports marketing.• Managed ~$950M in annual fundraising. Oversaw ALSAC’s individual giving and corporate partnership portfolios, including major gifts, corporate partnerships, bequests, foundations, and employee giving.• Reimagined and integrated two key development teams to position organization and mission for significant expansion.• Ensured goal achievement through leadership of 125-member team and engagement and mobilization of high-level volunteers.• Drove major gift and corporate solicitation strategies with emphasis on high-wealth donors and corporate partners / prospects.• Designed strategy and secured $350M+ in long-term corporate naming commitments.

Elevated from VP to SVP after 1.5 years; provided vision, leadership, strategic direction and goals for division that grew to $200M+ annually through best-in-class cause marketing campaigns, promotions, sports fundraising, sponsorship and employee-based initiatives.• Increased divisional revenue by 67% while also balancing revenue composition to increase resilience.• Served as development lead on signature St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign, including 70 brands, multiple A-list celebrities, and fully integrated national marketing campaign.• Actively led 55-person team charged with building and growing meaningful, mutually beneficial, sustainable partnerships that were multi-channel and multi-dimensional in nature.• Developed and grew key relationships with C-level executives and other key decision makers across a variety of industries, including retail, technology, media, sports, and entertainment.• Consistently earned highest culture / employee opinion survey scores in development for managerial effectiveness and trust.• One of five senior Development leaders when organization first crossed $1B mark in annual fundraising.

Built initial team and enterprise strategy to establish presence in professional sports; developed and executed business development strategy for league and sports media partnerships to increase brand visibility, engagement and revenue.

Hired at inception to implement the vision for an innovative, patient-centered health care and wellness facility in downtown Memphis, serving both the corporate and residential communities using a unique funding and business model.

Joined organization as an intern and expanded into successively broader roles, ultimately serving as part of the Redbirds Senior Staff which functioned as an executive management team for organizational strategy and revenue performance.

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