Megan serves as VPG’s senior prospect research consultant and analyst with over 20 years of experience in higher education, secondary school, and healthcare fields. She is a strategic thinker and team leader with the ability to analyze large quantities of data, verify wealth screening data and create high-quality written pieces of research to guide strategic gift planning. Her expertise is in grateful patient wealth screening, building prospect research departments, creating processes, data integrity, individual, corporate, and foundation research, and data mining. She has a comprehensive understanding of and approach to the complexities of the development process which guide her work as a prospect researcher and analyst.

She is a Blackbaud/Raiser’s Edge specialist. In her role as a development services professional and consultant working at Duke Medical Center, the Lahey Clinic, and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Megan has established best practices in prospect research departments and daily processes for screening and identifying major gift prospects and donors. She has worked with development officers and physicians to screen and identify patients and other constituents with major giving capacity.

Megan has served in the development services staff as a prospect researcher at Duke University (Durham, NC) supporting the institution’s $2 billion campaign and at the Lahey Clinic (Boston, MA).  She began her career at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) in the alumni and development program. She resides with her husband and their active family in West Simsbury, CT.