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Dr. Robert C. Khayat |
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Dr. Gloria Kellum |
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Frank S. Pisch |
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Dr. Tim Caboni |
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Mr. Edward J. Tomey |
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Robert L. Bull |
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Winston C. Smith, Jr., J.D. |
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Dr. Mike Thompson |
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Nick W. Scully |
Patty Carocci Assistant Head of School Sidwell Friends School |
Chancellor Khayat
Robert Khayat is the 15th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. Since his appointment in July 1995, the University has experienced a renaissance. Enrollment has increased, the campuses are being revitalized, compensation for faculty and staff is more competitive, and private support has soared.
With degrees from Ole Miss and Yale, Chancellor Khayat has devoted his life to strengthening the University of Mississippi. A former football player, he has received the NFL Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award.
Dr. Khayat serves on the Mississippi Power Company Board of Directors, the Council of Presidents for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Board of Trustees, the Southern Growth Policies Board, and is a Trustee of the Joseph Bancroft Educational Trust and the Croft Institute for International Studies.
Gloria Kellum
As Vice Chancellor for University Relations, Dr. Gloria Kellum is the chief advancement officer with overall responsibility for communications and fund raising on behalf of the university.
In 1996 Dr. Kellum was asked by Chancellor Khayat to join the leadership team and direct the university’s sesquicentennial celebration and its capital gifts campaign. She was named Vice Chancellor for University Relations in 1998 and directed the Commitment to Excellence Campaign that raised $525.9 million in private gifts. The university’s endowment has nearly tripled under her leadership.
Dr. Kellum helped establish and now oversees the operations of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy.
Frank S. Pisch
Frank S. Pisch, chief executive officer and chairman of The Compass Group, is a senior fundraising executive and nonprofit leader with more than 30 years of successful experience. His strengths include campaign design and management, board and staff development, effective utilization of volunteers and all other aspects of fundraising, including creating effective fundraising teams.
Mr. Pisch has consulted to a wide spectrum of nonprofit organizations—private and four-year colleges, public universities, community colleges, university foundation boards, independent schools, hospitals and medical centers, human service and environmental agencies, youth groups, arts organizations, and trade associations—in relation to capital campaigns, major gift fundraising and strategic planning.
He has raised more than $3 billion for his clients and, as a major gifts specialist, he has been involved in the successful solicitation of more than 150 gifts of $1 million or more.
Mr. Pisch is a member of the Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).
Tim Caboni
Professor Caboni is a faculty member in the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program and holds an administrative appointment as Peabody College's Associate Dean for External Relations and Professional Education.
Professor Caboni also serves as director of the Institutional Advancement program—the nation's only academic program devoted solely to the preparation of advancement professionals for colleges and universities. He teaches courses in fund raising, external relations, alumni relations, and university management for higher education. Professor Caboni also directs the higher education practicum program for the department.
Edward J. Tomey
Edward J. Tomey, has over 45 years experience as a manager, management educator, and consultant to leaders. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer, business owner, vice president of an international consulting firm, and faculty member at Harvard University.
Mr. Tomey is professor emeritus of management at Antioch University New England. He has experience with more than 1,200 nonprofits includes higher education, foundations, medical/mental health providers, human services agencies, environmental groups, and arts/humanities/cultural organizations.
Robert Bull
Robert Bull, senior vice president of The Compass Group, has over 15 years of successful experience fundraising for nonprofit organizations, both as a development officer and as a consultant. His professional fundraising skills include campaign planning and management, major gift strategy development and solicitation; special events execution; direct mail and phonathon organization; and volunteer recruitment and development.
Mr. Bull joined Compass after a six-year career as a senior consultant with Ketchum, Inc., where he provided fundraising counsel to more than 25 nonprofit organizations. Since joining Compass, Mr. Bull has consulted to a variety of organizations in social services, education, the arts and the environment.
Mr. Bull is a member of the Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE). He is a frequent presenter and panelist at regional conferences sponsored by AFP and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Winton Smith
Winton Smith is a practicing attorney who specializes in estate tax strategies and tax planning, financial development and planned giving for charitable organizations. His background includes more than 20 years of practical experience in structuring and marketing major gifts. He represents both individual philanthropists and charitable institutions, keeping them informed of the latest tax law changes affecting charitable gifts.
Mr. Smith’s ability to present the many complex subjects involved in charitable giving in an easy-to-understand manner sets him apart from other lecturers. He conducts the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Planned Giving Institute in various cities across the country each year, and is the only CASE presenter to consistently receive top ratings for his delivery of the course, "Introduction to Planned Giving."
Mr. Smith has been a frequent speaker at programs sponsored by the National Council on Planned Giving (NCPG), the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE) and the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP). He regularly presents charitable tax strategy seminars and workshops for bar associations, estate planning councils, colleges, universities, law schools and hospitals, as well as natural resource and conservation, religious, social welfare and other charitable organizations. Mr. Smith’s programs on charitable gift planning have been approved for continuing education credit by State Bar Associations and State Accountancy Boards.
Mike Thompson
Mike Thompson was born in Roswell, New Mexico. While not an alien himself, he has known some.
Dr. Thompson received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. In 1982 he went to work for the Xerox Corporation and is a graduate of the Xerox Training Institute. Dr. Thompson has presented over 750 programs in over 40 states. Companies he has created programs for include IBM, Ford Motor Company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and the Department of the Navy.
In 1998, Dr, Thompson developed a Golf Training program that dramatically increases the learning time for the golf swing. The program is used by over 200 golf instructors here and in over 14 countries. Today, Dr. Thompson is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Delta State University.
Nick Scully
Nick Scully, vice president of The Compass Group, has more than 30 years experience in the nonprofit sector. His areas of expertise include campaign management and implementation, prospect engagement and cultivation, alumni relations, planned giving, major gift solicitation, donor stewardship and enrollment management.
Prior to joining Compass, Mr. Scully was the vice president for institutional advancement and athletics at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. He formerly served Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School in Memphis in several leadership roles. Mr. Scully attended law school at Memphis State University, and earned a master’s degree with honors from Vanderbilt University with an emphasis in institutional advancement.
A presenter regionally and nationally for the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and Noel-Levitz, Mr. Scully has been a Certified Fundraising Executive since 1989.
Patty Carocci
Patty Carocci is a fundraising executive and nonprofit volunteer with over 17 years of successful experience. Her strengths include development operations, major gift programs and volunteer utilization in fundraising activities.
Ms. Carocci began her career at the Pew Charitable Trusts where she served as a program assistant for the Conservation and Environment Program and the Education Program. Following her time there, she worked on successful capital campaigns with Vassar College and the University of Pennsylvania raising $200 million and $1 billion for their campaigns respectively. Ms. Carocci then joined the fundraising consulting firm of Ketchum, Inc. where she served as a senior consultant. There she consulted to a wide spectrum of nonprofit organizations — private and public colleges and universities, independent schools, community colleges, hospitals and medical centers, human service and environmental agencies. Following four years of extensive experience at Ketchum, Ms. Carocci served as the director of development at Catholic University where she oversaw an annual fundraising program in excess of $12 million.
Currently, Ms. Carocci is the assistant head of school for institutional advancement at Sidwell Friends School, which has the first Platinum LEED certified building at the independent school level. Here she supervises a staff of ten in development operations including a $2.1 million annual fund and a $500,000 fund-raising events program. Sidwell Friends is in the final stages of a $56 million campaign, for which only $5 million remains.
She is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). She has been a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) since 1997.
