From left, UTSA Office of Development staff: Sonia Gutierrez Konradi, Paul W. Carter, Tomas Larralde,
Bette Simpson, Bettie Karter
UTSA development office announces executive director, officers
(March 4, 2002)--Following a national search, UTSA has named native Texan
Sonia Gutierrez Konradi as executive director of development. An electrical
engineer who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin
and a master's from the University of California, Berkeley, Konradi assumed
her duties at UTSA March 1, according to UTSA Vice President for Administration/Interim
Vice President for University Advancement Gerard Barloco.
Since 1996, Konradi had been director of corporate relations for the College
of Engineering at UT-Austin, where she managed relationships and projects
associated with more than 200 high-tech and petrochemical corporations that
contribute $20 million annually to the college. Her personal fund-raising
efforts netted the college another $2 million in grants, yearly.
Throughout the 1990s, Konradi also directed UT-Austin's equal opportunity
program for minority students in engineering, overseeing outreach, recruitment,
advising, counseling and student success programs. Prior to joining UT-Austin,
she spent six years as a hardware and custom-device design engineer for AT&T
Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. As an undergraduate, she also garnered
industry experience with IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
"Sonia Konradi has the ideal combination of expertise and experience
required by UTSA at this pivotal time in our growth to move our development
function to the next level-- an essential step in our mission to attain flagship
status in research and as a top-tier educational institution for underserved
groups in San Antonio and South Texas," said Barloco.
Added Konradi, "I am very excited about joining the UTSA team and bringing
my experiences and skills to provide a top-quality education for our students.
I am looking forward to working with our corporate friends, alumni and donors,
as well as our faculty and staff, as we partner to create new and exciting
initiatives which will promote UTSA as the institution of choice."
Konradi will oversee a growing UTSA development staff, which now includes
a development officer for five of the university's six colleges. The most
recent additions are Paul W. Carter associate director of development
for the College of Engineering, and Tomas Larralde, associate director
of development for the College of Education and Human Development.
Larralde was most recently special assistant to UTSA President Ricardo
Romo before assuming his new fund-raising and development duties.
Carter brings to UTSA more than 20 years of fund-raising experience and leadership
for three of the nation's largest nonprofit organizations--the American Red
Cross, Boy Scouts of America and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
Most recently, he served as CEO for the American Red Cross in South Carolina,
where he launched a $9.2 million campaign and revised management strategies.
He also spent more than two years based In Washington, D.C. in the national
development department for the Red Cross. He completed a B.S. in sociology
at UT-Tyler.
New appointees also include Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Simpson,
associate director of development for major gifts, and Bettie Karter,
assistant director of development for annual giving.
Simpson, whose background comprises extensive experience in fundraising for
higher education projects and institutions, previously was dean of institutional
advancement and executive director of the college foundation for the Technical
College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, S.C.
She also served during1992-94 as development director for the Maryland-based
Chesapeake Bay Foundation and from 1989-1992, was vice president for institutional
planning and advancement and director of development for New Community College
of Baltimore.
A former executive director of the Vermont Higher Education Council and a
successful realtor and volunteer community fundraiser, Simpson earned both
undergraduate and graduate degrees in English at the University of Rhode Island,
where she later served as an admissions officer, director of community centers
and part-time English instructor.
Karter, who completed a bachelor's degree in humanities at UTSA, has served
the university in many capacities over the past 27 years, working both in
development, as manager of external relations information systems, and as
a top assistant to the former dean of the College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences and to the interim dean of the College of Engineering. She is also
an active member of the Alumni Association, whose members support the annual
fund she oversees.
Other UTSA development officers are:
Richard
Ortega, associate director of development, special projects
Jim Eskin,
planned giving specialist and associate director of development, College of
Business
Janice Odom,
associate director of development, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Stephen Cross,
associate director of development, College of Sciences
Chris Gage,
associate director of athletics, external affairs
Juli Favor,
director of advancement, Institute of Texan Cultures
Quinn
Barraza, assistant director, development services
Elnora Kennedy,
development officer
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