Lon Saavedra brings over 25 years of demonstrable success establishing strategic partnerships to raise capital, expand revenue streams, and build financial support networks that optimize performance, organizational capacity, and operations for national and international philanthropic campaigns ranging from $1.2 billion, $100 million and below:

• Founding Director, Western Region (states west of the Mississippi), for the Smithsonian Institution’s first capital campaign of $100 million to build our 18th museum, the National Museum of the American Indian.

• Director, Corporate & Foundation Program for the Stanford University Medical Center, during the University’s successful completion of a $1.2 billion capital campaign. At that time, this was the largest fundraising campaign in the history of higher eduction.

• Founding CEO of the Hakone Foundation, recruited by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to establish an independent foundation that restored a languishing city park and Federal Low Income Housing Site back to its origins as a historic jewel of Japan—Hakone, the oldest Japanese estate, cultural retreat center and gardens in the Western Hemisphere.

• Chief Operating Officer for United Telecommunications Advertising, a joint venture between Tele-Communications Inc. (the world’s largest Cable TV corporation during Saavedra’s tenure), United Cable Television, and United Artists.

Senior Philanthropy Strategist: Institutional Advancement, Board Advising, Executive Director/CEO Coach