David Flinchbaugh returns to Australia to assist CASE Asia-Pacific members in raising their alumni engagement models to the next level. Two years after a very successful masterclass that outlined base engagement ideas, he will address how institutions at all levels can move their programmes to new heights.

Flinchbaugh brings extensive experience in alumni engagement, higher education advancement and corporate consulting. A strategic leader, public speaker and coach, he has served as an advancement executive at University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Bucknell University, with corporate experience as an educational consultant at IBM.

As Assistant to the Vice President, Flinchbaugh chairs the University System of Maryland Alumni Relations Council.  The Council coordinates engagement activities across the System’s twelve institutions and one million alumni worldwide, with international engagement as a key strategic component.

As Associate Dean at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Flinchbaugh’s team leads the school's engagement strategy to assure alumni, friends and donors are actively connected to the school.  At the UM School of Social Work, he oversees a team that raises private funds for the school from alumni, friends, corporations and foundations.  During his twelve years, Flinchbaugh has led efforts that have more than tripled the school’s annual private funding, grown the school's scholarship funds from five to eighty-five, and driven a four-fold increase in corporate and foundation giving to the school.

Flinchbaugh served on CASE's Commission on Alumni Relations, including four years as faculty at the CASE Summer Institute for Alumni Relations, and two years as its chair.  A recipient of CASE's Faculty Star Award, Flinchbaugh’s primary expertise is in focusing alumni engagement to bridge development and alumni relations, strategic planning and board management.

Previously, Flinchbaugh served as executive director for alumni relations at Johns Hopkins and Bucknell Universities. His background includes twelve years as a consultant and manager with IBM, primarily in the Washington, D.C., region. Holding a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University, Flinchbaugh’s IBM management training includes executive education at both Wharton School of Business and Harvard Business School.

Ken is currently the Director (Alumni) at the University of Southern Queensland.  In this role, he strategically leads every aspect of the USQ alumni programme and he is responsible for the database. 

He is also the current co-chair of the Australian Universities Alumni Professionals Group (AUAPG), which is a professional group designed to share learnings in the university alumni space within Australia. He previously spent seven years as the Alumni Manager, where he was responsible for the Queensland University of Technology alumni programme and three-and-a-half years as the inaugural Alumni Manager for The University of Queensland, School of Medicine.

Jane is an alumni relations and stakeholder engagement executive with extensive experience in higher education. In January 2017 she was tasked with designing and implementing UNSW's first centralised, comprehensive alumni and engagement function to support the UNSW's ambitious 2025 strategic plan, and first fundraising campaign.

As the executive director of alumni and engagement, Jane leads a team working across the University to build philanthropic capacity for the long term.

Jane is passionate about articulating a dynamic value proposition for engagement, connecting people, and bringing real value to the University and to its supporters. She also likes developing talent in the sector and making the whole thing as much fun as possible.