Highlights
- Senior Consultant at Washburn McGoldrick since 2022.
- Leads principal gifts assessments and strategic plans at institutions of all sizes, having worked with Georgia Tech to launch its first formal principal gifts program and with multiple institutions to define, shape, or redirect their principal gifts efforts.
- Past experience includes 25 years at Vanderbilt University, serving in multiple roles with increasing of levels of responsibility and leadership.
- With a Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University, leads adult education classes at Nashville area churches.
- Also holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt.
Clients
Bellarmine University
The Catholic University of America
Center of Theological Inquiry
Centre College
Davidson College
Denison University
DePauw University
Duke University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Haverford College
Mount Holyoke College
Rhodes College
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
University of Richmond
The University of Toledo Foundation
William & Mary
Randall W. Smith
Senior Consultant
Randall W. “Randy” Smith joined Washburn McGoldrick as a Senior Consultant in 2022.
Randy works with Washburn McGoldrick clients on overall campaign consulting feasibility studies, staff and program assessments, and principal/transformational gifts efforts.
Prior to joining Washburn McGoldrick, Randy spent 25 years in various leadership roles at Vanderbilt University, where he was on the planning team for two successful ten-figure campaigns.
Randy’s accomplishments at Vanderbilt include leadership for the following new fundraising initiatives: the university’s first regional major gifts office; the Opportunity Vanderbilt campaign for additional need-based undergraduate scholarship endowment; the first formal principal gifts program. In addition, he oversaw the work of 15 distinct fundraising units over an eight-year period.
Randy holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, and a Master of Divinity degree, both from Vanderbilt University. For 30+ years, he has led adult education classes at Nashville area churches.
Randall W. Smith
