Charlotte Dewhurst is Associate Director of Development within the University of Oxford's Central Development Office where her responsibilities include DARS (Development and Alumni Relations Systems), Regular Giving and Gift Administration. Before she joined Oxford 2.5 years ago Charlotte worked for 15 years at the Scientific, Technical and Medical Publisher, Elsevier, in roles covering marketing strategy, communications and operations, as well as customer engagement, customer experience and business intelligence.

Kate moved into the role of Director of Services in Development & Alumni at the University of Edinburgh in March 2018, following three years heading up the department's Research team. In her new position, Kate oversees the work of the Finance, IT support and projects, Research and Insight teams and works closely with the Executive Director on governance and compliance projects. With over 20 years' fundraising experience, and a specialist in prospect research from 2000, Kate has worked with a wide range of organisations, most recently in the higher education sector in Scotland having started her fundraising career in London with roles at the Natural History Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Sarah joined the University of Cambridge's Development and Alumni Relations office as the head of prospect information and analysis in 2013, during the quiet phase of the University's £2B Dear World, Yours Cambridge Campaign. Sarah manages several teams that provide research, prospect and knowledge management, analytics and business intelligence. She was previously Director of Prospect Development at the University of California, Berkeley, where the team supported the successful $3B Campaign for Berkeley. Sarah started her fundraising career at the University of Bristol where she was a member of the small team that initiated Bristol's first comprehensive fundraising campaign. Sarah loves data and developing systems, tools and processes that support effective and efficient fundraising.

As Executive Director of Operations and Donor Relations Katherine’s role encompasses all areas of Advancement services, as well as oversight of strategy and planning, budgeting and people activities.

Katherine joined London Business School in 2009 as Director of Advancement Operations working alongside the Associate Dean, Advancement to prepare the school for its first comprehensive fundraising campaign. This involved setting up the operations function and preparing the foundation for successful friend and fundraising across the department. London Business School closed its campaign two years early in summer 2016 having raised £125m and 124,000 volunteer hours.

Before moving into the education sector, Katherine was Head of Development Services at Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest multi-disciplined arts centre. During her time there, the Development Department successfully delivered the £111million transformation of the Royal Festival Hall. She began her career at Arts & Business, where she headed up a team of consultants advising arts organisations on how they can benefit from corporate philanthropy and sponsorship.

Chris has expertise in designing an institution-wide approach to empower Advancement professionals to succeed. By engineering innovative infrastructure, technology and guiding culture that underpins creating change, he helps to achieve superior value in the philanthropic supporter experience. Chris values an open and simplistic approach to operations, and believes the skills that create successful operations are to have a problem solver mind-set and design & deliver filtered-efficient-purposeful real time information with colleagues in a fast-paced environment. This ultimately builds confidence in, and advances, the strategic direction of travel.

Chris has worked in Higher Education Advancement spanning arts and culture, American liberal arts and UK research & teaching university experience. As the former Head of Advancement Operations and Campaigns, one of his memorable achievements was to work alongside visionary campaign & marketing professionals to provide a meaningful, evidence-based and comprehensive philanthropic campaign showcasing the 200 years of the Royal Academy of Music. 

In 2022, Chris joins Blackbaud. Chris is still an engaged volunteer, having participated as a CASE Conference Development Planning Committee Member for multiple years, and has written a number of white papers with CASE.  He currently works with our Blackbaud Higher Education customers across Europe as well as our enterprise charities, where he can bring his passion for modernising charitable giving skills; as well as supports the Graduate Trainee Programme by delivering engaging sessions such as The Power of Storytelling, and a data workshop where he discussed best practice to manage cultural changes within the sector. 

Jude Alldred is Deputy Director, Develop Services at the University of Manchester.  Before she joined the team at Manchester she sent time in Australia and has done similar roles at La Trobe University, Monash, the University of Queensland as well as at King’s College London.  Prior to working in education, Jude worked in a number of development operations roles across arts and heritage and the charity sectors starting out as a Database Manager for Sense in the days of Raiser’s Edge for DOS!  She has been involved in the development of a number of fundraising campaigns including World Questions: King’s Answers at KCL.  During her career her responsibilities have included data and systems, finance and gift processing, research and prospect management, stewardship, governance and HR.