Olga Mazur

Head of Individual Fundraising, Tabletochki Charity Foundation

Head of individual fundraising at Tabletochki CF, the biggest Ukrainian organisation helping children with cancer.   She joined the Foundation in 2017 as the head of the communications team and later changed her role to the newly-created position — the head of individual fundraising.   During her leadership of individual fundraising, the income from this category of donors increased more than 3 times.   Olga implemented the new fundraising instruments in the foundation and led a number of ambitious fundraising campaigns. In particular, two national Radiothons within which 2500 new monthly donors were recruited.   Before joining Tabletochki, Olga worked for 3 years in marketing and communications at Danone.

Hanna Yurovytska

Head of Communications at Tabletochki CF

Hanna joined the Foundation's team as a junior communications specialist in 2017 and grew up to the Communications director. She focuses on developing and implementing communication strategies, fundraising communications, team management, reputation protection, and crisis management.  Hanna and her team brought the Foundation to the level of the most well-known and influential organizations in Ukraine, whose work is covered by the Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, CBS News, BBC, and Sky News.  During her leadership, the team increased several times in the past two years and became one of the most effective communication teams in the Ukrainian nonprofit sector.  In addition, Hanna with the team are supporting and working closely with the fundraising department and helped to raise $10 million during the last two years.

Agustina Oliveri

Senior Digital Campaigns Officer at Freedom from Torture

Agustina Oliveri is originally from Argentina, where she started her career campaigning for women's reproductive rights. She is experienced in campaigning, international human rights law and digital marketing. She has worked in human rights campaigns in different countries, from Greece to Uganda and the Netherlands, and is now a Senior Digital Campaigns Officer at Freedom from Torture in the UK

Aaliyah Burns

Digital Campaigns, Freedom from Torture

Aaliyah Burns has worked for 2 years within the Freedom from Torture Digital Campaigns team. Prior to this she worked with numerous refugee rights charities, as well as other non-profits, in community events and managing social media platforms.  Aaliyah and her team at Freedom from Torture have undertaken international campaigns as part of the charity’s work to support torture survivors in the UK and to end torture around the world.

Sepideh Sahar

Human Right activist, advocate and campaigner working at Freedom from Torture

Sepideh Sahar is a Human Right activist, advocate and campaigner working at Freedom from Torture. She is a member and coordinator of Survivors Speak OUT and One Strong Voice networks, campaigning to improve Home Office & Human Rights policies in the UK.  Originally from Iran, Sepideh is passionate about ensuring her lived experience expertise contributes to improving the lives of survivors of torture, refugees and asylum seekers.

Bianca Marquez

Associate Director of Digital Fundraising, 350.ORG

350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis.

Ambar Chacín

Digital Marketing Coordinator at Amnesty International Argentina

She has a degree in Social Communication with a specialization in Audiovisual Arts, graduated from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an activist in the NGO Fundación Medatia facilitating learning processes for children and young people from various communities in Venezuela. She started her career in 2011 as a producer at Cinesa-Bolivar Films working for important advertising agencies in the country. In 2014 she was Deputy Manager of the Department of Art, Technology and Impact at Amnesty International Venezuela. Later on, she began her studies in Digital Marketing in Buenos Aires at the IT Education Institute and in 2018 she joined Amnesty International Argentina section as head of the Digital Marketing area in the fundraising area.

Yvonne Ndirangu

Digital Engagement Lead, Fight Inequality Alliance

Yvonne Ndirangu is a feminist digital communications specialist with deep understanding of and experience working on diverse digital platforms and tools to help build social movements and communities. Yvonne is passionate about strategy development and the implementation of current communication tools that are important in mobilising and organising grassroots movements taking on the crisis of inequality.

Joshua Leigh

Digital Marketing and Fundraising Consultant

With over a decade’s experience in digital and offline marketing, campaigning and activism, Joshua Leigh has helped NGOs raise millions in financial support and to connect countless people with the causes they care about. He now works as a Digital Marketing and Fundraising Consultant with some of the biggest NGO brands in the UK and across Europe, building and delivering digital strategies that bring their brands to life in exciting new ways.

Carolina Valentim

Senior Communication Strategist, Bee Relevant

Carolina Valentim is a communication strategist, cultural researcher, and documentary photographer who is deeply passionate about understanding people and our cultural & social contexts. Carolina has done work across a broad range of causes including gender, LGBTQIA+ campaigns, hunger relief, climate change, mental health, race, economic justice, corruption, and human rights, and for organisations as diverse as Ben & Jerry’s, ActionAid, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and more.

Roberto Federicci

Co-Founder & Data Engineer, Bee Relevant

Roberto has worked with environmental studies, environmental programmes, and in monitoring of works, cartography, and geoprocessing. Roberto transitioned to the commercial area of the electricity sector as an environmental and budget manager, offering environmental, social, and land solutions, and on public and private tenders. Currently, Roberto is developing knowledge of programming and data science.

Salvatore Salpietro

Chief Partnership Officer, Fundraise Up

Fundraise Up provides the tools you need to increase conversion, enable modern payment methods, and personalize the giving experience for every donor.

Paul de Gregorio

Founder of Rally: Digital Mobilisation & Engagement Strategist

Hello, I’m Paul and I’m the founder of Rally. Rally works with organisations fighting for a fairer, healthier, safer, greener, more equal world. We’re more of a hub than an agency. Agency is so 2019. I’ve been lucky to have worked with charities and membership organisations all over the world, including (but not limited to), Cancer Research UK, American Civil Liberties Union, Refuge, Amnesty International, Terrence Higgins Trust, Oxfam, Greenpeace, The Labour Party, Crisis, Save the Children, WWF and Friends of the Earth - to deliver mobilisation, fundraising and campaigning activity that engages the public at scale and inspires them to take action. I spend too much time on Twitter.

Bert Maerten

Head of Transformation at HelpAge International

Transformation-oriented, analytical, strategic thinker and person-centred leader. Brings together programming, influencing and partnership strategies, with a strong focus on organizational and people development. Thrives in systems thinking and “doing development differently”. Professional experience centred in Asia-Pacific, with solid global experiences.

Saleem Tejani

I'm head of digital at DTV

Saleem has spent over 21 years working in the UK’s leading fundraising agencies: first with Bluefrog as Client Services Director, then with Open as Business Director, and for the past 7 years with DTV Group as Head of Digital. He has helped many charities build highly effective acquisition, retention, and legacy strategic programmes, integrating both on- and offline channels. Saleem joined DTV to develop and implement their digital offering, including web optimisation, digital donor journeys, and using direct response video effectively for recruiting donors efficiently and at scale in social channels. He is a passionate fundraiser who loves creative development, NPD innovation, and digital integration.

Apar Gupta

Executive Director at IFF

Apar Gupta is a lawyer who serves as the executive director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a nongovernmental organisation that advocates for digital rights and liberties. In 2015, Gupta and others launched SaveTheInternet.in, a public campaign that fought for net neutrality and stopped the introduction of Facebook’s Free Basics initiative in India. Gupta and his team at IFF file petitions and undertake advocacy campaigns to defend online freedom, privacy, and net neutrality.

Simon Romain

Chief design and product officer, iRaiser

Fundamentally involved in the non-profit sector, Simon has been working with world-changers for over 15 years.  First alongside Oxfam France, to engage their digital transformation in fundraising and launch their first Trailwalker - and indeed the first peer-to-peer fundraising event in France (in 2009). Driven by his desire to imagine and continually deploy innovative fundraising ideas, Simon went on to create his own fundraising agency where he worked with over 30 different organizations. At the same time, he created his own Endowment Fund dedicated to NGOs, based on a very singular raffle system, entirely free of charge for NGOs. Since 2020, Simon has taken the lead of the Product and Design department of iRaiser, a technology company providing digital fundraising solutions for nonprofits. His gol has always been the same: dusting off fundraising to inspire as many people as possible to financially support nonprofit organizations.

Ross Fisher

Digital Strategist, Forward Action

Forward Action is made up of hard working, compassionate and dedicated individuals who have come together to work towards a better world with our charity partners. Each month, our Meet… 23 January 2023

Nicholas Scott

Digital and Strategy Consultant

I help non profits realise a transformative vision of what they could be in the digital + AI age. ESADE EMBA candidate 2023

Pragna Shekar

Fund Development Manager, Uninhibited

A political science graduate from Madras Christian College and a Period Fellow, Pragna is a Fund Development Manager with Uninhibited, a Bengaluru based nonprofit which works on building safe spaces to destigmatise menstrual and sexual reproductive health in marginalised communities across India. Pragna has built a dynamic profile working in the menstrual health ecosystem for the past four years, starting as menstrual health educator at grassroots government schools and communities in rural India during her fellowship. Armed with field experience and the reality of menstrual poverty in a rural context, Pragna contributed to and worked in the areas of training and learning development, communications, impact assessment, and fundraising, along with advocacy & strategy. Her vision is to continually learn while serving & working on taboo topics that intersections with gender, identities, & decolonisation. Prgana seeks to enable uninhibited authenticity in each individual who has to dismantle generational shame, fear, and oppression to reclaim their body, identity, voice, power & agency, and is keen to explore the use of stories and storytelling, safe spaces, facilitation, theatre, and alternative healing as tools in her work.

Andrea Goezinne

PMM @ salesforce.org

Andrea Goezinne is currently Product Marketing Manager EMEA at Salesforce.org and has spent the last 10 years working with hundreds of nonprofits to grow their fundraising. Speciality: helping nonprofits kick ass

Isabel Milbert

Senior Partnership Manager

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Sal Tejani

Sal Tejani

Sal Tejani