Kenneth Manotti has been named senior vice president and Chief Development Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Manotti has more than 30 years of fundraising and leadership experience at major institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the American University in Cairo, and the University of Chicago. He was senior vice president of University Development and Alumni Relations at New York University.
Manotti’s appointment concludes a national search for new leadership for MSK’s fundraising program, which was led for the past 15 years by Richard Naum as senior vice president for Development and Anne McSweeney as Special Advisor to the President.
Under their direction, the Campaign for MSK surpassed its $3.5 billion goal, providing vital support for innovation and discovery research to transform cancer treatment in New York and around the globe.
At the University of Chicago, where Manotti served as vice president for Alumni Relations and Development from 2011 to 2017, he helped direct a successful $5 billion capital campaign, working collaboratively with university leadership, trustees, and advancement colleagues.
Before that, he served as vice president for Institutional Advancement at the AUC, where he led university-wide development, alumni affairs, and marketing and communications programs in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe. Prior to his work at the AUC, he was associate dean for External Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, where he directed the $550 million Wharton Campaign.
