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The Institute of Fundraising Technology Groups'
Conference 2008 - London, May 14th
Speakers
| Speakers | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Crawford | Help The Aged |  |
| David Clayden | Salvation Army |  |
| David Wilcox | Partnerships Online |  |
| Dawn Varley | Christian Aid | |
| Iain Pritchard | Sayer Vincent |  |
| Nigel Magson & Jim Baggett | Tangible Data & Wood for the Trees |  |
| Philip King & Martin Gill | Artez & Comic Relief |   |
| Rob Salmon | meta-morphix Limited |  |
| Sue Fidler | Sue Fidler Ltd |  |
| Tim Manley & Robin Fisk | Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain & Fisk Brett |   |
Speaker Biographies
Alan Crawford: Help the Aged
Alan Crawford joined Help the Aged as Head of IT last year. He has worked in the voluntary sector since 2001, as Head of IT at Norwood and St Dunstan’s. His particular interests are business/IT alignment, programme management and how Web 2.0 will change the way we work.
David Clayden: Salvation Army
David is the Strategic Information Director of The Salvation Army in UK and Ireland. His earlier career has spanned fish stock and traffic management, research and lecturing in medical statistics and being an NHS IT Director. David is the current chairman of the Charity Consortium IT Directors Group (CCitDG), the premier membership group of IT Directors in large UK charities.
David Wilcox: Partnership online
David Wilcox has worked worked as a journalist, regeneration and public engagement consultant. These days he specialises in helping groups and organisations use a mix of online and other media for collaboration.
www.designingforcivilsociety.org,
socialreporter.com,
www.commonspace.org.uk
Dawn Valey: Christian Aid
Dawn has spent 10 years in the charity/nfp sector working within supporter care and database management roles. Most recently at Christian Aid as Data Development Manager she was responsible for the quality, enhancement and import of supporter information, and at WaterAid prior to that was responsible for the management of the main fundraising database. She is now an Associate Consultant working for Purple Vision on CRM projects.
Iain Pritchard: Sayer Vincent
Iain Pritchard is a partner at Sayer Vincent and leads on consultancy engagements involving information systems and technology. Iain originally trained as a consultant with KPMG and has held senior management positions both in charities and in the commercial sector; he is a certified management consultant and an active member of both the Institute of Management Consultants and the British Computer Society.
Nigel Magson & Jim Baggett: Tangible Data & Wood for the Trees
In 1996, Nigel founded Tangible Data (Formerly Talking Numbers). Tangible Data is a data agency that builds databases, datamarts and offers a range of insight and data management services to a wide client base of commercial and not for profit clients, including Oxfam, Help the Aged, Diabetes UK, CLIC Sargeant, British Heart Foundation. Prior to founding Tangible Data, Nigel spent over 10 years developing systems and insight for British Gas. Nigel co-founded the INSIGHT SIG for the Institute of Fundraising, aiming to raise standards for analysts working within the Charities sector. He is a Fellow of the IDM and Fellow of the CIM.
Jim Baggett founded Wood for Trees in Sept 2007. He started his data education in the early 90’s and was one of the original Directors (and owners) at Occam DM Ltd. Jim has personally worked with The Children’s Society, Amnesty International, WISPA, World Vision, Dogs Trust (Formerly NCDL) and WWF.
Philip King & Martin Gill: Artez & Comic Relief
Philip King and Martin Gill have been working together...usually quite well...for the past three years. Martin is the Head of New Media for Comic Relief, and Philip is the President & CEO of Artez, an online fundraising technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Sue Fidler: Sue Fidler Ltd
Sue is an independent consultant working for charities with more than 15 years of IT, Database and Internet experience. Sue provides consultancy across the range of IT, dB and Internet issues, specializing in email marketing, strategic and functional web development, database specification and installation management. Sue also provides the CharityeMail email broadcast tool.
Rob Salmon: Managing Director, meta-morphix
Rob has considerable experience and knowledge of the importance of data in direct marketing as a result of working for some of the largest names in the industry. Rob began his career in DM with Acxiom selling data processing, database, loyalty and fulfilment services. He then undertook a sales management role at TDS where he was responsible for the development of data solutions for B2B clients. From TDS, Rob moved to DATA by design (subsequently merged with Experian) where he concentrated on working with major clients on analytical solutions incorporating processing, analysis and storage. Rob left Experian in 1999 to set-up and manage meta-morphix.
Tim Manley & Robin Fisk: Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain & Fisk Brett
Tim Manley has spent 20 years in database management and supporter relation roles within the charity sector, often project managing the selection and implementation of new databases. For the past 14 years he has been Database Manager at the Evangelical Alliance where he has overall responsibility for the Corporate Database including data control, analysis, reporting and data protection.
Robin Fisk, Managing Director of database specialists Fisk Brett, is one of the UK’s leading authorities on software development and systems analysis.