An experienced professional in Communications, Marketing and
Fundraising, Arnaud Marcilhacy has a vast experience in working with NGOs and
higher education institutions, in Europe and North America. Wiser for his 10 years experience in North America,
he has a solid expertise in project management and negotiation of partnerships.
Mr. Marcilhacy supervises development activities and operations for the firm in
Belgium, France and Switzerland. Mr. Marcilhacy
presently runs the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (#1 French University in
international rankings) fundraising project, the Ecole Centrale Paris
fundraising campaign and feasibility studies for Ecole des Mines de Nantes,
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique and the Red Cross Museum (Geneva).
Before joining Brakeley he was General Manager of the Ketchum Fund
Raising Europe office in Paris.
He gave counsel and fundraising support to clients such as Supélec (France),
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium),
World Vision (Canada and France) and the Boy Scouts of France. Prior to joining Ketchum Fund
Raising, Mr. Marcilhacy was Director, Strategic Planning at The Domain Group,
an American advertising agency specializing in non-for-profit institutions with
offices in Paris, London and Seattle. In
this position, he helped settle the French office, successfully developing
new clientele and putting together strategic partnerships to ensure the growth
of the agency. Before that, he was Director, Marketing One on One at RTA-Leo
Burnett (Montreal and Toronto), a major international Advertising
Agency. He acquired and managed several prestigious accounts like Air France,
BMW and Weider Nutrition, allowing a significant gross of the agency’s profit
margin.
From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Marcilhacy was Marketing Director at World
Vision Canada, the largest
child sponsorship organization in North America.
Working from the Montreal and Toronto offices, he successfully managed to
attract and cultivate some 200,000 donors, produced TV Infomercials and put
together strategic partnerships with major Canadian companies like Provigo and
Provisoir.
Mr Marcilhacy has a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from the Université
de Paris.
