Beth Kramer

Chief Development Officer & VP, Advancement at Simmons University

Beth Kramer, Chief Development Officer and Vice President of Advancement is a strategic fundraising executive with more than 25 years of development experience at well-known institutions throughout Boston. She has led capital campaigns and secured high-profile gifts to endow fellowships, transform academic spaces, and build research centers. Most recently, Kramer served as the Vice President for Advancement at Olin College of Engineering and played a key role in helping that institution strengthen its annual giving program and design funding opportunities to motivate donor engagement. Prior to that, Kramer was the Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she secured the School’s second-largest gift in history to create a new research center. Kramer is a graduate of Ohio Northern University.

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