Steven Barwald joined The University of Sydney as Associate Director, Prospect Development at the start of 2020, diving straight into onboarding a newly formed and expanded team remotely.

Currently, Barwald’s focus is on growing The University of Sydney’s prospect pool, increasing prospects development’s collaboration across the advancement portfolio, and designing due diligence methodologies and principles.

Barwald has 10 years of commercial and management experience. Prior to prospect development, he worked in sales research, sales operations, and specialty research positions across a variety of industries including e-commerce, human resources technology, and market research – having handled research, lead management, and process implementation in all roles. 

Some of his core skills include prospect identification, pipeline management and CRM database management and reporting.

Barwald is also the President of, Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (Apra-Australia).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve01/