Kennesaw State recently named Scott Bryant as its new associate vice president for development, effective in August.
Scott Bryant currently serves as the executive director of development for the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology but will be taking over his new role at KSU on Aug. 1 — more than two weeks before the start of the 2019-20 academic year.
As the associate vice president for development, Bryant will be responsible for developing and maintaining KSU’s fundraising strategies and managing a staff to help find donors and potential gifts for the university.
Bryant will help manage a team of 20 KSU staff members who all oversee major and annual gifts given to KSU and deal in KSU relations with private donors. The staff operates under Lance Burchett, the vice president for advancement and chief executive officer of the KSU Foundation.
According to KSU’s website, the KSU Foundation is a nonprofit corporation which holds responsibility for private gifts to the university.
“The Mission of the Kennesaw State University Foundation is to serve as an advocate for the University, and to receive, invest, account for and allocate private gifts and contributions in support of Kennesaw State University,” the nonprofit’s mission statement reads.
During his time with Georgia Tech, Bryant helped the college to surpass several fundraising goals during its $1.5 billion fundraising campaign. He also led a development team that beat out annual fundraising goals. The team brought in approximately $7 million per year.
“Scott brings over a decade of successful fundraising experience in the metro Atlanta area to Kennesaw State,” Burchett said. “His strong leadership and professional management abilities demonstrated at Georgia Tech will be a valued asset to the University Advancement division and the entire University.”
Before serving at Georgia Tech, Bryant also worked as president, operating partner and chief financial officer at Bell Oak Capital, LLC, a real estate company which caters to small businesses in the Atlanta area.
