Mark Aimone serves as the director of advancement at Wilbraham & Monson Academy. Since joining the academy in 2016, he has reorganized and refocused the development program and expanded the outreach to its alumni and parents. He’s overseen the redesign of the school’s annual fund communications and messaging, which has led to a record level of annual support over the past three years. A recently completed campus master plan begins with a new $4.5 million library that will be completed in January of 2020. Additionally, WMA is in the planning stages of a comprehensive capital campaign, the academy’s first in more than a decade.

He has spent more than 25 years advancing independent schools in an array of roles—from fundraiser to administrator to teacher, advisor and coach. His full-time development career began in 2006 at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he served as regional director of major gifts and was part of a team that raised $352 million, the most by a secondary school at that time. In addition to his development work for Exeter in the United States, he spurred the growth of Exeter’s United Kingdom Association and built and maintained connections with more than 100 U.K.- and European-based alumni/ae.  

In July of 2010, Aimone returned to his alma mater, Tabor Academy, as director of advancement. While at Tabor, he oversaw the creation of the Fund for Tabor, a complete redesign and rebranding of Tabor’s annual fund communications, which led to a significant increase in the annual fund. He oversaw the fundraising for the completion of two E.E. Ford Challenge matches, the renovation of the athletic complex and the academic building, installation of a three-turf field athletic complex, a crew rowing tank and the construction of a new residence hall.

Throughout his career, he has traveled extensively in the United States and throughout Asia, Europe and South America recruiting students and building relationships with alumni/ae and parents. He has presented at numerous conferences including NAIS, SSAT and the TABS Global Symposium. He serves on the Development Committee for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Aimone is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and holds a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Hamline University.