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| Senior Project Manager & Consultant |
| Derek C. Bellin has recruited over 225 advancement, finance, marketing and communications professionals across the higher education, research, healthcare, advocacy and community development sectors. With FPS since 2005, he has facilitated recruitment of executive leadership for Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard School of Public Health, Sarah Lawrence College, Stevens Institute of Technology and Tufts University. The Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT are among the research-intensive enterprises he has assisted while he has also served Catholic Charities, Harlem Children’s Zone and others in the advocacy arena. |
| Mr. Bellin brings 18 years of preceding advancement and higher education leadership and management experience directing three comprehensive financial resource development campaigns ranging in scale from $100 million to $2.85 billion. Mr. Bellin was with Stanford University during the nation’s first $1 billion campaign, the Sierra Club during its inaugural campaign, Columbia University where he directed the $2.85 billion Campaign for Columbia and Case Western Reserve University where he served as Vice President for University Relations and Chief Development, Marketing and Communications Officer. He has an extensive record of principal gift production from domestic and international individual and institutional donor constituencies. |
| At Columbia, he directed both planning and execution of the Campaign for Columbia – at the time the largest campaign in history – including the integration of academic and advancement planning to inform financial goals, academic program objectives and gift and grant implementation. At Case he staffed the inauguration of a new university President, the faculty’s selection of honorary degree recipients, the trustee nominating committee for recruitment of more than twenty new university trustees and produced, with the Commission on Presidential Debates, the 2004 Vice Presidential Debate. He also served as a search advisory committee member responsible for recruiting academic leadership including the Provost and Deans of the School of Management, College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine. |
| His leadership of these philanthropic campaigns, crisis and reputation management and integrated marketing, development and communications programs has achieved the highest recognition by the Council of Advancement and Support of Education (Columbia, Stanford), Public Relations Week Awards and the Holmes Report Golden Sabre (Case). |
| He is an elected elementary school director, emerging reading and literacy volunteer and Fresh Air Fund host in his community and an active rugby referee throughout the United States of America. |
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