Pamela Cook, ACFRE, is the Founder and Principal of Pamela Cook Development Search. She has conducted searches for nonprofit development professionals since 2000. Pam has more than twenty years experience in nonprofit fundraising and corporate community relations. Pam has worked as community relations manager for The Clorox Company, and in senior development positions for the Stanford University School of Engineering, the California Academy of Sciences, the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, and the United Way of Santa Clara County.

Pam was 2000 and 2001 president of the board of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She serves on the Board of the SEMI Foundation and on the West Coast Regional Advisory Board of the Institute of International Education. She also served on the board of the Fulbright Association and was a Big Sister for fourteen years. A graduate of Duke University (BA), University of Virginia (MA), and a Fulbright Scholar at the Australian National University, Pam received a certificate in corporate community relations from Boston College. She has also completed the Stanford Advanced Management College, the Coro Community Leaders Program, Leadership Oakland, and the Environmental Forum of Marin. Pam is a registered Fundraising Counsel with the State of California. She was named as the 2003 Hank Rosso Outstanding Fundraising Executive by the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Executives and Northern California Grantmakers. Pam is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Network of Nonprofit Search Consultants.

Paul Gietzel serves as Business Manager. Paul holds an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He has over 25 years of experience in financial management, personnel management, and information technology. Paul worked as a senior operations executive for a number of Bay Area consulting and software firms and served as Vice President for Shearson, Lehman, Hutton (a Wall Street securities firm), and as a Senior Financial Analyst for Bank of America. In these roles, Paul recruited and trained more than fifty senior managers. Paul is also an active volunteer for youth and education organizations. He has been a Big Brother and has coached a range of youth activities from basketball to mathletes.

Cheryl A. Clarke, JD interviews job candidates for us. Cheryl is a fundraising consultant, trainer and author of Storytelling for Grantseekers and Grant Proposal Makeover published by Jossey-Bass. She works with nonprofit organizations - large and small - to improve their fundraising capacity.  She has held senior development positions at USF, UCSF and the Marine Mammal Center. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the American Association of Grant Professionals, and is on the board of Development Executives Roundtable.  Cheryl is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Andrea Zafer Evans interviews job candidates for us. Andrea has seventeen years of professional and volunteer experience in the community, with a focus on individual, major gift and capital campaign fundraising. Andrea has worked on staff with the California Academy of Sciences, Coro Foundation, Sierra Club, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Andrea attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, where she earned a BBA from the Cox School of Business and an MLA from the Simmons School of Education and Human Development. Andrea currently serves on SMU’s National Alumni Board; she is a former board member of the Bravo! Club of San Francisco Opera and has volunteered through the Junior League of San Francisco.

Janet Lipsey manages our office. Janet has worked in a variety of settings as a ballet and theatrical costumer, a Montessori pre-school teacher, and a National Park Ranger. She has 20 years of volunteer experience including working for the Center for Attitudinal Healing, serving as President of a PTA, being a member of school and synagogue committees, and serving as a high school PTA communications officer. She has worked at numerous fundraising auctions. Janet has a BA in Speech Pathology from Northern Colorado University with minors in Art and Drama.