Executive Profiles
 

JAMES G. KITENDAUGH
President      
 

Jim Kitendaugh spent fifteen years in line management of major non-profit institutions, particularly in the areas of marketing, fund-raising, staff development, and the development of management systems. Specifically, he served as Director of the Capital Campaign for Tufts University’s successful $145,000,000 effort; as General Manager of The Boston Ballet; and as Managing Director of The Boston Shakespeare Company.  He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and holds a Master’s Degree from Tufts University.

Jim has trained thousands of fund-raising staff and lay leaders in major gifts solicitation over the past 25 years.  He has been an invited speaker on a variety of subjects related to Board development, capital campaign planning, major gifts, and institutional planning at professional conferences in Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, B.C.

 

Lynne M. Cavanaugh
Executive Vice President
 

Lynne Cavanaugh co-founded The Wayland Group following six years as a staff consultant for Arthur D. Little, where she specialized in marketing, financing, and program planning in the health care industry.  In addition to her professional credentials, she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts and holds an M.S. Degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.S. Degree in Social Work from Simmons College.

 

Margot A. Biggin
Vice President
 

Margot joined the firm in 2000 following fifteen successful years as a development professional.  Prior to joining The Wayland Group, she served as Director of Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which raised $111 million within Harvard University's overall $2.6 billion capital campaign.  Her previous fund-raising experience was with the Big Brother Association of Greater Boston, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, and the United Way of Westchester in White Plains, New York.  Margot is a graduate of Smith College and has an M.B.A. from Boston University.  She has served as a member of the Board of Association of Fundraising Professionals, Massachusetts Chapter since 1996.

 

Charles Marz
Vice President

Charlie joined The Wayland Group in 2000 after more than twenty years working in education and the arts, for 15 years as Director of Development and Long-Range Planning at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University, where he also served as Assistant Dean of the College. 

 

A graduate of Brearley, Bates, and Boston University School of Management, Jennifer joined The Wayland Group in 2000 following 10 years at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation (most recently as Director of Development), where she worked with major donors, managed large, complex special events of all types, and managed the Foundation's $10 million capital campaign.
 

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