With more than 25 years in leadership roles in the nonprofit sector, Bill Simmons brings to clients a rich background in consulting, development, marketing and communications. Through strategic planning and hands-on collaboration, he has played significant roles in advancing the missions of educational, cultural and healthcare clients in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Bill joined GG+A in 1993 after playing a founding role at Liberty Science Center in Library State Park, N.J., first as chief planning consultant and then as vice president for external affairs. In addition to spearheading the completion of a $68 million capital campaign, he created the Center’s development and marketing programs, and led the marketing of the Center’s successful launch. Previously, he served as a planning consultant and held several senior management positions, including founding director of development, for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City.

In 2000, he became vice president of advancement and executive director for the Stony Brook Foundation. During his three-year tenure there, he launched Stony Brook’s first university-wide campaign of $250 million, encompassing the five-school Stony Brook Medical Center, University Hospital, and 12 academic and program units. He also implemented comprehensive development and alumni relations programs. Bill resumed his senior consulting role with GG+A in 2003, specializing in development of cases for support and branding strategies for development programs.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Rutgers College and pursued graduate work at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

Selected GG+A client work includes:

– Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, counsel for a $112 million campaign to expand the award-winning Aquarium of the Americas, animal research facilities and other campaign initiatives

– San Francisco Symphony, counsel on the Symphony’s unprecedented $130 million capital and endowment campaign

– National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, comprehensive support for a $78 million capital and endowment campaign for the nation’s No. 1 respiratory medical center

– Baylor College of Medicine, strategic planning for its successful $521 million endowment campaign, which concluded in 2005

– University of Massachusetts Amherst, guidance on the professional organization of the development program and counsel on the launch of a projected $350 million comprehensive campaign

– The Jewish Museum in New York, assistance for this landmark art and culture museum in implementing a successful $75 million endowment campaign