Adrian Salmon

Adrian Salmon, Vice President, GG+A Europe, brings 25 years of direct-marketing fundraising experience in the higher education, arts and culture, and wider nonprofit spheres.

His particular expertise includes digital engagement and stewardship, direct mail fundraising, annual giving program management, and management of contributions from integrated mail and online appeals.

Before joining GG+A in 2015, Adrian was Footsteps Fund Manager at the University of Leeds, where he dramatically increased the University’s number of donors, annual giving income, and contributions from integrated mail and online appeals.

Adrian also implemented an automated propensity scoring system, the first to be used by a university in the United Kingdom and designed and implemented the University’s first dedicated 20-seat fundraising call center. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Adrian served for more than nine years with The Phone Room Ltd. as Director of Client Services and as Head of TPR Education. He headed numerous award-winning telephone campaigns for nonprofit clients, including the National Galleries of Scotland, Symphony Hall Birmingham, and the Southbank Centre. He also established successful telephone fundraising campaigns for University of Salford and Birkbeck, University of London.

Adrian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the Institute of Fundraising. Adrian serves on the Advisory Panel of Rogare, the new practitioner-focused fundraising think tank at Plymouth University’s Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy.

Clients:

• Aberystwyth University
• University of Alberta
• Alder Hey Children's Charity
• American University
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• University of the Arctic
• Aston University
• Boston University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Cancer Research UK
• Cardiff University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Center Theatre Group
• Dartmouth College
• University College Dublin
• University of Dundee
• Durham University
• University of Edinburgh
• Emory University
• ESADE
• Eton College
• Ferring Pharmaceuticals
• Florida State University Foundation
• Heriot Watt University
• IE University
• IESE Business School
• Indiana University Foundation
• The Institute of Cancer Research
• The Johns Hopkins University
• King’s College London
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
• University of Massachusetts Lowell
• The University of Melbourne
• University of Montana Foundation
• Montgomery College Foundation
• University of Montreal
• National Museum of Asian Art
• New York Institute of Technology
• Northampton Community College
• The University of North Carolina Asheville
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Nova Southeastern University
• OneFifteen Recovery
• University of Ottawa
• Parkview Health
• Pomona College
• Quinnipiac University
• Regent's University, London
• Ripon College
• Seattle University School of Law
• The University of Sheffield
• Smithsonian Institution
• University of Southampton
• St Christopher’s School
• St Michael’s Foundation
• The Sutton Trust
• The University of Texas at Austin
• University of Toronto
• United Service Organizations
• University of Virginia
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• The University of Warwick
• Wayfinder Family Services