Tim Allison is the Chief Advancement Officer at the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH) where he leads the philanthropic initiatives at each of the state’s seven community colleges.  He also serves as the Executive Director of the Foundation for New Hampshire Community Colleges.  Prior to joining CCSNH, Tim worked for more than a decade at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) where he held various leadership roles in advancement during the largest campaign in the history of the institution.  Mr. Allison has over 25 years experience in the non-profit sector and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Business Administration from UNH.

For more than two decades, Randy Bertin has been a leader in independent boarding schools and has been a Head of School for over ten years. He is currently the Head of School at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Before Cushing, he spent twelve years at Besant Hill School of Happy Valley in Ojai, California, serving seven of those years as Head of School.

Before Besant Hill, Randy had a seven-year career at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, MA, serving in many roles including Certified Athletic Trainer, Residential Faculty, Teacher, Coach, Dean, Director of Athletics, and Development Officer. Before becoming Head of School at Besant Hill, Randy served in multiple leadership positions there, including Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Director of Advancement, and Assistant Head for Advancement. He also served as the school’s Varsity Basketball Coach from 2007-2011, earning back-to-back CIF Southern Section championships and CIF-Southern Section Division V coach of the year in 2010. During his tenures as Head of School, Randy has been recognized for his transformative leadership at Besant Hill and is one of only two independent school heads to receive the CASE District VII CEO Leadership Award (2017). He was also awarded the honor of Head of School Emeritus at Besant Hill (2018). Randy is an expert in School Leadership, International Fundraising, and Boarding School Admissions and has presented several times on these topics.

As a classical violinist turned innovative composer, Kai Kight uses music as a metaphor to inspire individuals and organizations across the world to compose paths of imagination and fulfillment. Inspired by his own mother who, when diagnosed with cancer, revealed regrets of not bringing her ideas to the world. Kai is on a mission to spark a global mindset shift in which ingenuity is the norm, not the exception. 

Kai’s unique background is one of both art and science. As a musician, Kai has performed his original music for thousands in venues across the world, from the White House to the Great Wall of China. As a product of Stanford University’s design and engineering program, the d. School, and the Behavior Design Lab, Kai studied how to help people create healthy and transformative habits in life. On stage, Kai fuses these experiences to create presentations that are not only designed to stir the soul but spark concrete action.

Julie A. Lucas is vice president for resource development at MIT. She reports to President L. Rafael Reif and directs the Institute's fundraising enterprise, securing resources to ensure MIT’s leadership in higher education. In 2016, Lucas spearheaded the public launch of the MIT Campaign for a Better World, a $6 billion fundraising initiative that amplifies MIT’s distinctive strength in education, research, and innovation. In June 2021, MIT completed the Campaign and surpassed the goal, raising a total of $6.2 billion. Under her leadership, the Office of Resource Development has exceeded its annual fundraising target of $500 million for the past seven years. She establishes strategic direction and maintains the highest standards for resource development teams that support and conduct frontline fundraising, bolsters and strengthens the Institute's advancement community, and showcases MIT’s vision and impact—all in support of MIT’s mission to build a better world. Previously, she held positions at the University of Southern California, New York University, Fordham University, and Hofstra University. Lucas earned a BA from McDaniel College, an MS from Hofstra University, and advanced certification from NYU’s Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.

Tyrone McKinley Freeman is an award-winning scholar and teacher who serves as Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Previously, he was a professional fundraiser and Associate Director of The Fund Raising School where he trained nonprofit leaders around the globe. His research focuses on philanthropy in communities of color and philanthropy in higher education. His latest book is entitled, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Skystone Partners Research Prize in Fundraising and Philanthropy. His work has appeared or been cited in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, NewsOne, The Conversation, Black Perspectives, Philanthropy Women, Chronicle of Philanthropy, CASE Currents, and Advancing Philanthropy. He is co-author of Race, Gender and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).

O’Neil A.S. Outar joined RISD's leadership team in January 2018, bringing more than 20 years of fundraising and leadership experience from some of the world’s leading public and private research universities. He began his career at Tufts University, where he served as director of the Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering during the University’s $609 million “Tufts Tomorrow” campaign. From there, Outar held several ascending leadership roles at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leading the work that secured some of MIT’s largest-ever donations. Following MIT, Outar held fundraising positions at the University of Alberta and Harvard University, where he led the $2.5 billion “Campaign for Arts and Sciences” campaign. Most recently he served as the interim vice chancellor for Institutional Advancement at the University of Pittsburgh.

Currently a special adviser to The Guyana Foundation, Outar was a Commonwealth Study Conference Leader, a member of the Word Economic Forum’s Knowledge Advisory Group and an MIT Leader-to-Leader Fellow. A first-generation college student, he was born in New Amsterdam, Guyana and is named in honor of his father’s favorite Australian cricketer, Norman O'Neill.