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Mark Rittinger is honoured to serve as the Executive Director, Advancement for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Mark joined the University of Toronto in 2020.
Throughout his career, Mark has served primarily with two globally ranked and renowned business schools in Canada and the United States. At the Schulich School of Business, as Executive Director, Mark led a team supporting the dean in all aspects of Advancement both in Canada and around the world. At the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now the Booth School of Business), Mark served as Director of Major Gifts and Campaign Director, New York Region. At the time, Booth was engaged in a successful $250 million campaign as part of the $2 billion Chicago Initiative.
Mark has also made an impact in the environmental sector as well as in arts and culture. At the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Mark served as Vice President, Marketing and Development, working with a team of dedicated professionals across Canada to raise more than $710 million dollars as part of the $750 million Landmark Campaign. At the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Mark ultimately served as Interim President, but primarily as Vice President of Development, for the ROM Governors – part of a team that raised in excess of $260 million in support of the transformational Renaissance ROM campaign.
Over his more than 30 years in Advancement, Mark has been an active volunteer for the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE), receiving the Rising Star Award, and serving as program chair and co-chair for numerous conferences, including at the National level. In addition, he spent four years as a director on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Toronto Area Chapter – the largest such chapter in the world, serving two years as its Vice President, Finance.
Finally, an active member of the theatre scene in the Greater Toronto Area, Mark has also served as President and Vice-President over six years of service to the Whitby Courthouse Theatre Board of Directors.