Testimonials

Genuine and tenacious

Catherine is the real deal. She is genuine, tenacious and has the best interest of this community in mind with every project she takes on. Her grace in challenging times is astounding, and her ability to never meet a stranger is impressive. 

– Chief Luther Reynolds, City of Charleston Police Department

Catherine is awesome!

She knows her craft well and has a genuine interest in the people she meets and works with.  When we first met, she took the time and energy to get to know me first, and talked about the projects she was working on that could be good for the bank second. Unlike a lot of fundraisers I’ve encountered, she is one whose call I will take, any time.

– Edward McKelvey, SVP Community Development Banking, South State Bank

Mentor

Catherine consistently demonstrated her ability to find creative and effective solutions to problems while maintaining a level-headed demeanor even in the most high stress environments. Her professional experience coupled with her engaging personality proved her to be an impactful and refreshing member of any team she was a part of. Working with Catherine has been a standout experience of my professional career.

– Neal Rice, Realtor, exP Realty and former Development Manager,
Charleston Gaillard Center

Rare ability to envision long-term strategy

“Catherine has the rare ability to envision a long term strategy and execute with calculated achievable steps.  She is an excellent communicator, both internally and externally, and has an innate ability to know how to connect the right message to the right audience.  Her events are fun, seamless and are executed with an ease that belies the keen attention to detail at which she excels.”

– Nuala O’Connor, SVP and Chief Counsel, Digital Citizenship, Wal-Mart

Gets results

“Catherine gets results. Our revenues have increased yearly, 53 percent in 2012. But her value to Athletes Without Limits far exceeds fundraising. Since joining us as a startup non-profit, she has been a trusted advisor regarding organizational and board development, partnerships and key programmatic decisions.”

– Barry Holman, head coach and founding president, Athletes Without Limits

Tireless, upbeat sales professional

“I contracted with Catherine on more than one occasion as a sales consultant for national sponsorship sales because she is a fantastic sales person. She’s tireless, upbeat, a great connector, creative and goal oriented.

“She consistently uncovered and developed solid sales leads and worked to identify creative solutions that would result in successful sales relationships.”

– Jennifer English, Senior Director Promotion and Partnerships, PBS

Demonstrates the value proposition to clients

“Catherine is an extremely organized, articulate, knowledgeable marketing and fundraising professional.  I had the pleasure of watching Catherine generate multi-million dollar corporate commitments on behalf of the PBS sponsorship portfolio.  This required a comprehensive game plan on how to best generate revenue for the entire portfolio and then conducting in-depth research on how to best approach a targeted prospect base for each program.

“Catherine excelled in every facet of the process.  By demonstrating the value proposition to her clients, sponsors were able to understand their return on investment.  As one could imagine, she built up a tremendous roster of clients and contacts through the years, including media planners/buyers, corporate and foundation executives, from medium to large corporate and non-profit entities.”

– Adam Gronski, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, WETA