Graeme is the founder of Lagotto Solutions, a company helping universities and schools across the globe to identify and better understand their most prominent and successful alumni. Since its founding in 2015, Lagotto has worked with over 200 organisations to widen and strengthen prospect pools. A set of novel search techniques he developed sit at the heart of Lagotto’s prospect identification work and he is widely regarded as a leading thinker and innovator in this area.

As well as being a prospect research expert Graeme is also a talented and experienced fundraising leader. He was a Partner at More Partnership for 2 years and worked with a broad range of clients during this time (e.g. University College London, London School of Economics, University of Bradford, Bocconi University, Royal Academy of Music). The main focus of his work was the training, development and mentorship of fundraisers, fundraising leaders and prospect researchers.

He also spent 9 years at the University of East Anglia (UEA), also his alma mater, where he established their first major gift programme. He also led UEA's first institutional fundraising effort, The Difference Campaign, which successfully raised £50 million. Under his leadership the campaign was extended and is on track to raise £100 million by 2020.

Prior to his appointment at UEA, Graeme worked in the charity sector as head of fundraising at The Papworth Trust, fundraising manager at Ormiston Children & Families Trust, and as a programme manager at The Prince's Trust.